Around eight months ago I had lunch with a thirty-seven-year-old man named Benjamin who suffers from severe depression, has relationship issues, and who is drug and alcohol dependent. As declared by Benjamin, it is his alcohol and drug dependency and his intense depression that has had the most to do with his constant relationship problems.

As stated by Benjamin, he is so overcome by his relationship issues and by both of his medical conditions that he essentially has little or no impetus to complete much of anything. What is especially sad about this is that earlier in his life, Benjamin finished one semester of grad school in law.

Benjamin's condition makes me wonder if he is an illustration of an individual who can look within and perceive his drug abuse and drinking problems and do something healthy about these problems. Or, conversely, if he is someone who has to hit the very bottom before he gets addiction counseling that results in long lasting recovery.

It may be asked how rehabilitation would help his drug and alcohol addiction. For starters, there are some newly created physician-prescribed drugs 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 treatment he could also learn more about his alcoholism symptoms and also about the various stages of alcoholism.

Third, Benjamin would learn to accept the fact that there is completely nothing positive about substance abuse and careless drinking. In a similar way, he would also learn that engaging in one or both of these unhealthy circumstances is the path to poor work and school performance, legal problems, shattered relationships, deteriorating health, financial difficulties, and a premature death. Fourth, counseling for his depression and for his relationship issues might help him deal with these psychological problems more effectively and help create less of a need for him to engage in additive behavior. And finally, in rehab he could also learn more about the various symptoms of alcoholism that he has displayed.

Since Benjamin lacks the ambition to carry out much of anything in his life, it is obvious that he urgently needs a little hope for a more fulfilling life. And the sad thing is that hope is all around Benjamin if he could only get to the point in life to get the treatment he needs for his mental illness and drug addiction and alcohol dependency and stay with his treatment routine.

Benjamin is simply too young to be beaten in life. He doesn't understand this right now but if he can learn how to remove himself from alcohol and drugs via alcohol and drug therapy and get the counseling he needs for his extreme depression, he can turn his life around and start living with passion, direction, and with self-respect.

Enhanced relationships, positive change, self respect, and a meaningful life are clearly a reality for Benjamin. But only if he can become motivated to get the medical treatment he needs, follow through with his treatment regimen, live his life in a drug and alcohol-free and healthy manner, and learn how to acquire a more positive attitude about his existence.

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