Around eight months ago I had dinner with a thirty-five-year-old male named Benjamin who experiences extreme depression, has relationship issues, and who is addicted to drugs and alcohol. As explained by Benjamin, it is his alcoholism and drug addiction and his intense depression that has had the most to do with his continual relationship problems.
As declared by Benjamin, he is so crushed by his relationship problems and by both of his medical conditions that he in actual fact has little or no reason to complete much of anything. What is particularly unfortunate about this is that earlier in his life, Benjamin completed five semesters of graduate school in Spanish history.
Benjamin's condition makes me question if he is an illustration of an individual who can look within and perceive his drug addiction and drinking problems and do something positive about these difficulties. Or, on the other hand, if he a person who has to hit the very bottom before he gets drug and alcohol dependency rehabilitation that results in long lasting sobriety.
It may be asked how rehabilitation would help his alcohol and drug dependency. First of all, there are quite a few newly produced physician-prescribed meds that can help Benjamin avoid a drug or an alcohol relapse, help him through the drug and alcohol detoxification process, and help him through his withdrawal symptoms. Second, in rehab he could also learn more about his alcoholism symptoms and also about the various stages of alcoholism.
Third, Benjamin would learn to concede the fact that there is utterly nothing constructive about substance abuse and unhealthy and excessive drinking. In a similar way, he would also learn that messing around with one or both of these unhealthy circumstances is the road to poor work and school performance, a premature death, financial difficulties, deteriorating health, shattered relationships, and legal problems. Fourth, therapy for his relationship issues and his depression might help him cope with these psychological problems more successfully and possibly create less of a need for him to engage in additive behavior. And finally, in rehab he could also learn more about the diverse symptoms of alcoholism that he has displayed.
Because Benjamin doesn't have the determination to carry out much of anything in his life, it is clear that he definitely needs a little hope for a more fulfilling existence. And the sad thing is that hope is almost everywhere around Benjamin if he could only get to the place in life to get the counseling he needs for his acute depression and alcohol addiction and drug dependence and continue with his treatment routine.
Benjamin is clearly too young to be beaten in life. He doesn't realize this at this time in his life but if he can learn how to stay away from alcohol and drugs through alcohol and drug rehabilitation and get the counseling he requires for his severe depression, he can reorient his life and begin living with direction, passion, and with self-respect.
Enhanced relationships, positive change, self esteem, and a meaningful life are clearly a reality for Benjamin. But only if he can become inspired to get the professional rehabilitation he needs, follow through with his treatment protocol, live his life in an addiction-free and healthy manner, and learn how to acquire a more positive attitude about his existence.
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