Nearly eight months ago I had lunch with a thirty-nine-year-old male named Benjamin who experiences severe depression, has relationship difficulties, and who is alcohol and drug dependent. As articulated by Benjamin, it is his drug and alcohol dependency and his acute depression that has had the most to do with his constant relationship issues.

As explained by Benjamin, he is so dejected by his relationship issues and by both of his medical issues that he basically has no enthusiasm to achieve much of anything. What is especially sad about this is that earlier in his life, Benjamin finished two semesters of graduate school in law.

Benjamin's circumstance makes me wonder if he is an example of a person who can look within and see his drinking problems and drug abuse and do something healthy about these issues. Or, on the other hand, if he is someone who has to hit life's bottom before he gets drug and alcohol treatment that leads to long lasting recovery.

It may be asked how counseling would help his chemical dependency. First of all, there are some recently developed doctor-prescribed drugs 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 treatment he could also learn more about his alcoholism symptoms and also about the different stages of alcoholism.

Third, Benjamin would learn to understand the fact that there is entirely nothing positive about chemical dependency and abusive and hazardous drinking. In a similar manner, he would also learn that engaging in one or both of these unhealthy circumstances is the path to shattered relationships, poor work and school performance, financial difficulties, deteriorating health, legal problems, and a premature death. Fourth, treatment for his relationship issues and his depression might help him deal with these mental health difficulties more effectively and perhaps create less of a need for him to involve himself in addictive behavior. And finally, in therapy he could also learn more about the various symptoms of alcoholism that he has exhibited.

Due to the fact that Benjamin doesn't have the ambition to succeed at doing much of anything in his life, it is evident that he desperately needs some hope for a more productive life. 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 treatment he requires for his severe depression and dependency and stay with his treatment routine.

Benjamin is simply too young to be overwhelmed in life. He doesn't comprehend this at this time in his life but if he can learn how to remove himself from drugs and alcohol via drug and alcohol therapy and get the counseling he needs for his extreme depression, he can redirect his life and begin living with passion, direction, and with self-respect.

More meaningful relationships, constructive change, self respect, and a wonderful life are certainly possibilities for Benjamin. But only if he can become motivated to seek the professional rehabilitation he needs, follow through with his therapy regimen, live his life in a healthy and sober manner, and learn how to cultivate a more positive attitude about his existence.

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