Teresa was a forty-seven-year-old loan officer who knew that she had some problems with her drinking. For example, within the past month she has experienced the need to have three or four drinks before going to work, three weeks ago she failed a random urine alcohol test at her place of employment, three weeks ago she got arrested by the police for a DWI, and lastly, for roughly six months she has started to forget what she says and does when she goes out drinking with her pals.

Not unlike multitudes of other individuals, Teresa’s involvement with alcohol began slowly and stayed at this pace for quite some time due to the fact every once in a while she engaged in occasional social drinking. In reality, for roughly a year, every time she went out with her coworkers to drink, she made sure to drink moderately. Something about her drinking circumstances, nevertheless, seemed to radically change when she got divorced.

So She Can Get Beyond the Divorce of Her Husband In a less Painful manner, Teresa Made Up Her Mind To Begin Hanging Out More Frequently With Some of Her Friends Who Love to Have Fun Drinking

Teresa got extremely "down" about the loss of her husband, and as a way to quit fixating on her negative emotions she made up her mind that she would begin going out more regularly with some of her buddies who love to drink and have fun.

Quite sincerely, Teresa reasoned that having fun just about every day by getting "mellow" and drinking with her friends would help her overcome the breakup of her husband in a less wearisome manner.

Teresa’s Drinking Escalates Substantially the More Frequently She Goes to Happy Hours, Private Parties, Family Get-Togethers, Dinner Dates, and Sporting Events With Her Friends

It didn’t take too long, nevertheless, before her drinking escalated significantly the more often she went to and drank at sporting events, happy hours, family get-togethers, dinner dates, and private parties with her friends. Furthermore, the fact that her drinking pals were all many years younger than she was and therefore able to drink more thoughtlessly was one of the reasons why she didn’t center more of her attention on her increased drinking. In short, she was having a blast drinking just like everyone else in her group of friends without spending a lot of time thinking about the outcome of her irresponsible and abusive drinking.

Yet somewhere in her brain she realized that she probably needed alcohol treatment but stayed away from the thought as much as humanly possible.

Teresa Gets a Physical Exam, Acknowledges Her Irresponsible to Her Healthcare Professional, and Admits Her Melancholy

One late afternoon during her six-month physical examination, her doctor asked her if she drank alcohol. Not wanting to tell falsehoods to her healthcare practitioner, Teresa ”came clean” and stated that she commonly drinks more than she should. In point of fact, she articulated that she regularly drinks in an excessive and irresponsible manner. Then Teresa told her physician about her melancholy. More precisely, she mentioned that ruined relationships usually initiated a discouraging progression of events typified by increased drinking which further led to more dismal feelings that, in turn, resulted in more drinking. And this is explicitly what took place when her husband and she got divorced ten months ago.

When her doctor heard this, he informed Teresa that according to various alcoholism facts and statistics on alcoholism he was researching, alcoholism and depression routinely come about in the same person. He then informed her that some of the alcohol statistics, research investigations, and facts he has been reading about also highlight the fact that individuals who drink in an abusive and irresponsible manner and who also suffer from depression need to receive treatment for both medical situations.

Teresa’s Doctor Makes an Appointment for a Psychological Appraisal and For an Alcohol Abuse and Alcohol Dependency Evaluation

Teresa’s doctor then said the following: “I am not trying to make an unprofessional analysis, but with your medical circumstances we may be working with two separate issues. As a consequence, I think we should make an appointment for you to get an alcohol dependency and alcohol abuse assessment from my partner, Dr. Poulos, who is an alcohol dependency specialist. Whether your drinking situation is more associated with alcoholism or alcohol abuse is unknown, but I believe that further evaluation is required. Then I think we need to make an appointment for you to get a psychological examination from another one of my partners, Dr. Patterson, who is a counseling psychologist. I want to get a better handle on your depression and see how much your drinking and depression are related.” Teresa displayed her endorsement of her healthcare professional’s treatment plan and thanked him for his assistance and concern. Now all she had to do was to try to cut back on her drinking and wait for her appointments.