Stroke of Panic

Teresa was a thirty-year-old marketing manager who knew that she had a problem with her drinking. As an illustration, within the past two months she has experienced the need to have three or four drinks before going to work, five weeks ago she failed a random hair alcohol test at work, six weeks ago she got pulled over by the state highway patrol for a DWI, and lastly, for the past two months she has started to fail to remember what she says and does when she goes out drinking with her friends.

Similar to huge numbers of other people, Teresa’s alcohol involvement began slowly and stayed at this tempo for quite a long time due to the fact every now and again she engaged in intermittent social drinking. In fact, for approximately nine months, every time she went out with her friends to drink, she made sure to drink moderately. Something about her drinking situation, nonetheless, seemed to thoroughly change when her husband divorced her.

In Order To Endure the Divorce of Her Husband With Less Distress, Teresa Determined That She Will Start Palling Around More Repeatedly With Some of Her Friends Who Love to Have Fun Drinking

Teresa got very despondent about the divorce from her husband, and as a way to abstain from her preoccupation with her negative feelings she determined that she would begin hanging out more repeatedly with some of her pals who love to have fun and drink.

Quite frankly, Teresa truly believed that having fun just about every day by partying and drinking with her buddies would help her get over the loss of her husband in a more pain free manner.

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

It didn’t take too long, nevertheless, before her drinking escalated significantly the more habitually she went to and drank at sporting events, happy hours, family get-togethers, dinner dates, and private parties with her friends. In addition, the fact that her drinking friends were all much younger than she was and therefore able to drink more intensely was one of the reasons why she didn’t concentrate more on her increased drinking. Simply put, she was drinking and having tons of fun just like everyone else in her group of friends without too much deliberation regarding the negative consequences of her abusive and hazardous drinking.

Yet in the recesses of her mind she knew that she most probably needed alcohol treatment but stayed away from the thought as much as she could.

Teresa Gets a Physical Examination, ”Comes Clean” About Her Excessive Drinking to Her Healthcare Practitioner, and Admits Her Dejection

One day during her six-month physical, her physician asked her if she drank alcohol. Not wanting to tell falsehoods to her physician, Teresa owned up to the fact that she regularly drinks more than she should. As a matter of fact, she said that she regularly drinks in an abusive and excessive manner. Then Teresa informed her doctor about her general state of despair. More specifically, she articulated that broken relationships many times sparked a disheartening cycle of events typified by increased drinking which further led to more depressing feelings that, in turn, resulted in more drinking. And this is specifically what took place when she and her husband got divorced seven months ago.

When her physician heard this, he informed Teresa that according to various facts and statistics on alcoholism he has been investigating, alcoholism and depression routinely happen in the same individual. He then informed her that some of the alcohol statistics, research investigations, and facts he has been reading about also point out that individuals who drink irresponsibly and who also experience depression need to receive treatment for both medical conditions.

Teresa’s Doctor Schedules an Appointment for a Psychological Evaluation and For an Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse Appraisal

Teresa’s doctor then told her the following: “I am not trying to make a spur-of-the-moment analysis, but with your medical circumstances we may be confronting two separate matters. Consequently, I think we should schedule an appointment for you to get an alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse appraisal from my partner, Dr. Vedda, who is an alcohol addiction and alcohol abuse specialist. Whether your drinking situation is more associated with alcohol abuse or alcohol addiction is unclear at this time, but I believe that further exploration is defensible. Then I believe we ought to make an appointment for you to get a psychological examination from another one of my partners, Dr. Frankel, who is a psychologist. I want to get a better grip on your depression and see how much your depression and drinking are interlinked.” Teresa expressed her satisfaction with her doctor’s strategy and thanked him for his help and concern. Now all she had to do was to try to lessen her drinking and wait for her appointments.

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