Rebecca began drinking excessively when she was a freshman in college. Fortunately for her, although she drank excessively and hazardously when she was a teenager and a young adult, when she got beyond the age of thirty she almost always drank in moderation.

After she completed her education she eventually got a job at a local tire manufacturer where she worked her way up from stock person, to office assistant, to purchasing assistant, to purchasing agent. Unlike her other work positions, as the purchasing manager she again and again took existing vendors and potential vendors to lunch and to various sporting events.

Alhough it was not written in concrete, meeting with potential vendors and existing vendors again and again involved circumstances in which alcohol was present. In fact, over the past eleven months, Rebecca had started to significantly increase her work related and her social drinking. This has resulted in quite a predicament. More explicitly, the more successful she became as a purchasing agent, the more heavily she began to drink.

Her Almost Constant Feelings of Depression Also Made Her Question if She Was Becoming an Alcohol Addicted Person

Indeed, it didn’t take very long before Rebecca’s abusive and careless drinking started to adversely affect her work efficiency, her mental health, the money in her savings account, her health, and her relationships. After many weeks of heavy drinking, Rebecca, in reality, began to get anxious about her careless and irresponsible drinking and wondered whether her alcohol related issues were alcoholism signs. To make things worse, her increasing feelings of depression also made her wonder whether she was becoming an alcoholic. In short, Rebecca obviously needed to learn more about the facts about alcohol abuse and alcohol dependency.

Rebecca Needs Alcohol Detox and Alcohol Rehab For Her Alcohol Addiction and a Medical Assessment Regarding Her Depression

So Rebecca used her intelligence, called her physician, and set up an appointment for a thorough physical exam. A week later after seeing her doctor, Rebecca regrettably discovered that she was dependent on alcohol. Her healthcare practitioner informed Rebecca that she needed to get alcohol detoxification and alcohol treatment for her alcohol addiction and that she also needed to get a medical assessment regarding her depression. In a word, Rebecca needed treatment for her alcoholism and depression.

The Good News is That After Her Treatment For Depression and For Alcohol Addiction, She Felt Like a Different Individual

Her physician recommended to Rebecca that she take a 60-day leave of absence from work and get enrolled in a quality in-patient alcohol rehab clinic where she could also be treated for her depression. This is precisely what Rebecca did. Fortunately after her treatment for depression and for alcoholism, she felt like a different individual. In fact, now that she was living an alcohol-free life she rarely got depressed and she now comprehended how to more productively and efficiently manage her relationships, her finances, her health, and her job.

Not unexpectedly, the biggest “test” Rebecca faced was at the office. More precisely, she still took her existing vendors and potential vendors to various sporting events and to lunch, but after her alcohol rehab she managed to abstain from drinking while entertaining her clients.

It may be noted that Rebecca also found out that none of her potential vendors or her existing vendors thought any less of her because of her non-alcoholic lifestyle. Instead, she learned that her existing vendors and potential vendors respected her for maintaining her convictions.

After Rebecca went through alcohol rehabilitation, however, she found out that she was a person who, for whatever reason, could not drink in moderation. In fact she learned the hard way that if she abstained from drinking, all of the other significant parts of her life would be enhanced. At times, Rebecca missed drinking, but the better finances, work performance, health, and the better relationships she experienced more than made up for her love of drinking.

Brooke was a thirty-one-year-old cost estimator who was fed up with feeling depressed everyday of her life and fed up with her careless and excessive drinking behavior. Simply put, she was sick of feeling lackluster every morning, she hated the hangovers she went through on a regular basis, she was tired of going through failed relationship after failed relationship due to her excessive drinking, she was angry with herself for spending her hard-earned money on a valueless habit, and she missed her old motivation for doing various things she enjoyed.

Additionally she was fed up with paying for alcohol-related lawyer fees, she hated the fact that she had to go to court for her second DWI, she was disgusted with how out-of-shape she was, she was irritated with the many times she failed an alcohol test at work, and she was bored with her drinking buddies.

Besides the identifiable alcohol-related health problems she was going through, possibly the nastiest part of her drinking regimen was the unreliable and dishonest individual she had become. In her heart of hearts she knew that she had been less than truthful about her drinking behavior to her relatives, friends, and family and she also knew she had been deceitful with herself about the “positive” effects of drinking. Not only this but she made excuses for guzzling four or five drinks before going to social events and she also justified needing two or three drinks the first thing in the morning so that she could deal with the “anxiety” at her place of employment.

Her Depression and Her Irresponsible and Hazardous Drinking Lead to Significant Changes in Her Life

Without a doubt that Brooke was sick of putting up with the adverse consequences of her depression and her abusive and careless drinking and at long last made up her mind that something major had to change in her life. So she decided that she would refrain from drinking, start exercising, develop a new circle of friends, involve herself in some worthwhile hobbies, start focusing on becoming a more healthy person, and get professional counseling.

In brief, Brooke got to a time in her life during which she saw that she hit rock bottom and was now ready to start the gradual and slow road to health.

One of the ways that Brooke operationalized her “plan” was by requesting a transfer at her workplace. When her request was granted, she moved 800 miles away to a new city. If nothing else, this undeniably made making new friends and distancing herself from her old pals much simpler. Then she went to see a doctor in her new city and made an appointment for a complete exam.

Brooke Meets With a Physician About Her Irresponsible Drinking and Her Depression

After meeting with the healthcare practitioner and taking a number of lab tests, it was decided that Brooke had made the unfortunate change from alcohol abuse to alcoholism and therefore was in need of alcohol rehabilitation and alcohol detoxification. At this time, the healthcare practitioner made it a point to discuss the various signs of alcoholism, the symptoms of alcoholism, and information about long term alcohol effects with Brooke.

The physician then told Brooke that it was determined that she was clinically depressed and in need of counseling for this medical condition.

Brooke Decides to Build Up Her Body by Drinking Filtered Water, Taking Vitamins, Eating Healthy Foods, Living an Alcohol-Free Lifestyle, and Working Out

Due to her readiness to follow through with the therapy regimen, after eight weeks of residential rehabilitation, Brooke was ready to begin rehabilitation on an outpatient basis. At this point in time, she began working at her new job and over the weeks began revitalizing her body by eating wholesome foods, taking vitamins and minerals, living an alcohol-free way of life, drinking spring water, and exercising.

Brooke also came to grips with her spiritual yearnings by joining the local Pentecostal church and attending regular services.

After roughly six months of outpatient rehabilitation during which time she never suffered through an alcohol relapse, Brooke quit going to alcohol rehabilitation and instead started going five times per week to local AA meetings. Attending these meetings helped Brooke maintain her alcohol-free style of life, they gave her the support she needed, and they served as a continual reminder of the destructive outcomes that are correlated with unhealthy and excessive drinking.

After going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings just about ten months Brooke felt that she was ready for a relationship and so she started going out with Austin, a young gentleman she met at church. It simply astonished Brooke how much more prepared she was for a dating relationship now that she had her careless and abusive drinking under control. In point of fact it also surprised Brooke how much better life was now that she wasn’t under the control of her hazardous and careless drinking. Life was now positive and loaded with possibilities that she could have never longed for or realized when she was involved in hazardous and excessive drinking less than a year ago.

A Success Story That is a Demonstration of the Value of Alcohol Treatment and the Power of Positive Change

Brooke’s success story is a verification of the relevance of alcohol rehabilitation and the power of positive thinking. As Brooke reflected on her newfound positive self image and motivation for involving herself in worthwhile, healthy activities, she was actually appreciative that she made up her mind to do something worth while about her careless and excessive drinking instead of giving into her depression and into the lure of her alcohol dependency. The result: she likes her new job responsibilities, she has more energy now compared with any time in her adult life, she is involved in a loving relationship, she is in command of her life rather than letting herself languish under the control of her alcohol addiction, and her life now has a positive direction.