Temporary Child Custody

Wendy was the mother of three children. Wendy had been feeling quite stressed out lately and started to “medicate” herself by having two or three bottles of beer each night after she tucked her children into bed. After about six months of this drinking routine, she at long last understood the fact that rather than helping her ”chill out” and ”handle” her difficulties, drinking made her feel less tranquil when she awakened in the morning. This, in turn, made her feel increasingly more tense all through the day.

After thinking about her predicament for three or four days, Wendy decided to “open up” about her problem drinking with her best friend. In truth, approximately five minutes into their discussion, Wendy’s friend, Katelyn, mentioned that she knew about an extremely helpful and highly qualified psychiatrist at the local drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. After talking to her friend, Wendy immediately got motivated to call the treatment clinic and schedule an appointment.

Twelve days later she eventually got to meet the physician her best friend had talked about. After their brief introduction, Wendy explained to the physician that ever since she and her husband got divorced, she has been having a difficult time spiritually, emotionally, and financially.

At times, she felt that she was one hundred percent over the divorce. Recently, however, she has been feeling very depressed about the fact that she and her former husband couldn’t “make it”. When asked by the physician how long she and her former husband went together before they got married, Wendy told the doctor that Robert, her former husband, and she went out for four-and-a-half years and then lived together for three years before they got married.

As Wendy was talking to the physician, she underlined the point that she truthfully thought that her former husband and she waited long enough to know each other well enough before they got married. After the kids started to arrive, to the contrary, their lives appeared to fall apart. Furthermore, both she and Robert began to drink, and their irresponsible and careless drinking adversely affected their love for one another, their relationship, and their finances.

When things became less than pleasant between them, Robert got a divorce lawyer and filed for a divorce. Even though things were plainly not going well and although she was often depressed, Wendy told the physician that she didn’t want to put an end to their relationship. Once she received her divorce papers, however, she knew that their relationship was over.

The psychiatrist told Wendy that the anxiety, stress, and tension that she has been going through regarding her excessive and hazardous drinking are some of the normal alcohol abuse effects and that the best solution for this circumstance is rehab for one’s alcohol abuse. In fact, getting alcohol abuse treatment is very important because long-term drinking can get the individual into even more dangerous alcohol and alcoholism problems.

After eleven or twelve therapy sessions with her physician, Wendy was little by little able to understand that the real root of her tension and her depression was that she had not gotten to the bottom of her nasty feelings she has for her former husband who had divorced her two years ago. With these insights and with the medications her doctor prescribed, she eventually quit drinking, she started to feel much less depressed, and she began making more time for social events with her family and friends. A few months after receiving therapy from her doctor, she even started to date once again.

It was evident that Wendy had come a long way. Indeed, just about nine months after she stopped her therapy, Wendy had finally laid the depressing thoughts of Robert, her former husband, to rest and was starting to feel more complete and more spiritually “sound” and emotionally “together” than she had ever felt in her life.