Beth was the mother of three children. Beth had been feeling quite nervous lately and began to "medicate" herself by having several martinis each night after she put her children to bed. After roughly six months of this drinking routine, she at long last comprehended the fact that rather than helping her "chill out" and cope with her problems, drinking alcohol made her feel more restless when she got up in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more anxious throughout the .

After reflecting on her predicament for a week or two, Beth decided to discuss her drinking problem with her best friend. Indeed, approximately five minutes into their conversation, Beth's best friend Daniela, told her about a very knowledgeable and supportive physician at the local alcohol and drug treatment center. After talking to her closest friend, Beth without much ado got motivated to call the rehabilitation center and schedule an appointment.

Eleven days later she eventually got to meet the doctor her best friend had been talking about. After their short introduction, Beth explained to the physician that ever since her husband and she got divorced, she has been having a very hard time spiritually, financially, and psychologically.

As Beth was talking to the psychiatrist, she stressed the point that she really believed that she and her former husband dated long enough to know one another good enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, to the contrary, their relationship appeared to get worse. Not only this but both she and Robert started to drink, and their careless drinking negatively impacted their relationship, their love for one another, and their finances.

The physician explained to Beth that the alcohol poisoning symptoms she has been experiencing are due to her abusive and hazardous drinking. The doctor also told Beth that her alcohol withdrawal symptoms are some of the common symptoms of alcoholism and that the best solution for this state of affairs is alcohol treatment.

After spending three months in residential alcohol rehabilitation, Beth was gradually able to comprehend the fact that the real basis of her anxiety and her depression was the fact that she had not resolved her resentful feelings she has expressed for her ex-husband who had divorced her. In a word, Beth let these feelings perturb her so much that she became an alcohol dependent individual.

Armed with these insights and with the medications her psychiatrist prescribed, she eventually quit drinking, she started to feel significantly less depressed, and she began making more time for social activities with her friends and family. What is more, a few months after receiving rehabilitation from her doctor, she even started to date once again.

It was clear that Beth had come a long way. Indeed, just about six months after she completed her treatment, she had finally laid the negative feelings of Robert, her ex-husband, to rest and was starting to feel more self respect and more spiritually "sound" and psychologically "together" than she had ever felt in her life.