A Young Male Requires Counseling For His Acute Depression, Relationship Problems, And For His Substance Abuse

Roughly three months ago I had breakfast with a forty-one-year-old man named Benjamin who experiences severe depression, has relationship issues, and who is drug and alcohol dependent. As stated by Benjamin, it is his alcoholism and drug addiction and his extreme depression that has had the most to do with his perpetual relationship issues.

As stated by Benjamin, he is so crushed by his relationship issues and by both of his medical conditions that he essentially has no aspiration to accomplish much of anything. What is particularly unfortunate about this is that earlier in his life, Benjamin managed to complete one semester of graduate school in law.

Benjamin's condition makes me wonder if he is an example of an individual who can look in the mirror and perceive his drinking problems and chemical dependency and do something constructive about these problems. Or, on the other hand, if he is someone who has to hit the bottom of the barrel before he gets addiction treatment that results in lasting sobriety.

It may be asked how therapy would help his drug and alcohol addiction. First of all, there are some recently created doctor-prescribed meds that can help Benjamin through the alcohol and drug detoxification process, through his withdrawal symptoms, and help him avoid a drug or an alcohol relapse. Second, in counseling he could also learn more about his alcoholism symptoms and also about the different stages of alcoholism.

Third, Benjamin would learn to accept the fact that there is utterly nothing positive about drug addiction and abusive drinking. In a similar manner, he would also learn that messing around with one or both of these unhealthy situations is the route to financial difficulties, deteriorating health, poor work and school performance, shattered relationships, a premature death, and legal problems. Fourth, counseling for his relationship issues and his depression might help him deal with these psychological issues more effectively and perhaps create less of a need for him to engage in additive behavior. And finally, in counseling he could also learn more about the different symptoms of alcoholism that he has exhibited.

Since Benjamin doesn't have the ambition to carry out much of anything in his life, it is obvious that he desperately needs a little hope for a healthier lifestyle. And the unfortunate thing is that hope is all around Benjamin if he could only get to the place in life to get the treatment he requires for his mental illness and addiction and remain in his treatment program.

Benjamin is clearly too young to be crushed in life. He doesn't understand this at this time in his life but if he can learn how to remove himself from drugs and alcohol via drug and alcohol rehabilitation and get the treatment he requires for his acute depression, he can turn his life around and begin living with passion, direction, and with self-respect.

More solid relationships, positive change, self respect, and a wonderful life are certainly a reality for Benjamin. But only if he can get inspired to seek the medical rehabilitation he needs, follow through with his therapy regimen, live his life in a healthy and addiction-free way, and learn how to foster a more positive attitude about life.

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