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Beth was the mother of two children. Beth had been feeling quite nervous lately and started to "medicate" herself by drinking two or three bottles of beer every night after she put her children to bed. After just about ten months of this drinking routine, she at long last understood the fact that instead of helping her "lighten up" and "manage" her issues, drinking alcohol made her feel less rested when she got up in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel more anxious all through the day.

After reflecting on her situation for several days, Beth decided to discuss her problem drinking with her best friend. Indeed, roughly five minutes into their conversation, Beth's friend Andrea, mentioned that she knew about an extremely supportive and knowledgeable psychiatrist at the local drug and alcohol rehab clinic. After talking to her best friend, Beth immediately got motivated to call the treatment center and schedule an appointment.

Six days later she finally got to meet the physician her friend had talked about. After their short-and-to-the-point introduction, Beth told the physician that ever since her ex-husband and she got divorced, she has been struggling spiritually, financially, and psychologically.

As Beth was talking to the doctor, she underlined the point that she honestly believed that she and her ex-husband waited long enough to know one another well enough before they got married. After the children started to arrive, on the other hand, everything seemed to deteriorate. Furthermore, both Robert and she began to drink, and their careless and abusive drinking adversely impacted their finances, their love for one another, and their relationship.

The psychiatrist explained to Beth that the alcohol poisoning symptoms she has been going through are due to her careless drinking. The doctor also told Beth that her alcohol withdrawal symptoms are some of the usual symptoms of alcoholism and that the most productive solution for this is alcohol rehabilitation.

After spending three months in inpatient alcohol rehabilitation, Beth was little by little able to understand that the main source of her stress and her depression was that she had not gotten to the bottom of her bitter feelings she has for her former husband who divorced her. In short, Beth let these feelings distress her to such an extent that she became an alcohol dependent individual.

With these insights and with the drugs her physician prescribed, she finally stopped drinking, she began to feel much less depressed, and she began making time for social events with her friends and family. What is more, a few months after getting rehabilitation from her psychiatrist, she even started to date once again.

It was evident that Beth had certainly come a long way. In truth, just about five months after she stopped her therapy, she had finally laid the depressing emotions of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was beginning to feel better about herself and more spiritually "sound" and emotionally "together" than she had ever felt in her life.