Nearly eight months ago I had dinner with a thirty-one-year-old male named Benjamin who experiences acute depression, has relationship difficulties, and who is addicted to drugs and alcohol. As articulated by Benjamin, it is his drug addiction and alcoholism and his acute depression that has had the most to do with his unceasing relationship problems.
As explained by Benjamin, he is so crushed by his relationship problems and by both of his medical issues that he in actual fact has no desire to achieve much of anything. What is particularly unfortunate about this is that earlier in his life, Benjamin completed two semesters of graduate school in Spanish literature.
Benjamin's circumstance makes me question if he is an example of an individual who can look within and see his drinking problems and drug addiction and do something positive about these issues. Or, to the contrary, if he a person who has to hit the bottom of the barrel before he gets drug and alcohol dependency rehab that results in long lasting sobriety.
It may be asked how treatment would help his chemical dependency. First of all, there are quite a few recently produced doctor-prescribed meds that can help Benjamin avoid a drug and an alcohol drug 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 understand the fact that there is utterly nothing helpful about drug addiction and unhealthy and excessive drinking. In a similar manner, he would also learn that messing around with one or both of these unhealthy circumstances is the road to legal problems, deteriorating health, a premature death, poor work and school performance, shattered relationships, and financial difficulties. Fourth, treatment for his relationship problems and his depression might help him cope with these mental health problems more successfully and perhaps create less of a need for him to engage in additive behavior. And finally, in therapy he could also learn more about the diverse symptoms of alcoholism that he has displayed.
Due to the fact that Benjamin doesn't have the resolve to achieve much of anything in his life, it is clear that he badly needs a little hope for a more productive existence. And the sad thing is that hope is virtually everywhere around Benjamin if he could only get to the place in life to get the counseling he requires for his acute depression and chemical dependency and remain in his treatment routine.
Benjamin is clearly too young to be defeated in life. He doesn't comprehend this at the moment but if he can learn how to abstain from drugs and alcohol through drug and alcohol rehabilitation and get the counseling he requires for his severe depression, he can redirect his life and begin living with direction, self-respect, and passion.
Stronger relationships, positive change, self esteem, and a meaningful life are certainly a reality for Benjamin. But only if he can become inspired to get the professional rehab he requires, follow through with his therapy protocol, live his life in a healthy and drug and alcohol-free manner, and learn how to foster a more positive attitude about his existence.
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