Roughly eight months ago I had dinner with a thirty-nine-year-old male named Benjamin who suffers from extreme depression, has relationship issues, and who is dependent on drugs and alcohol. As articulated by Benjamin, it is his drug and alcohol dependency and his acute depression that has had the most to do with his unceasing relationship issues.

As declared by Benjamin, he is so overwhelmed by his relationship issues and by both of his medical conditions that he, for all intents and purposes, has no enthusiasm to achieve much of anything. What is particularly unfortunate about this is that earlier in his life, Benjamin finished five semesters of grad school in theology.

Benjamin's condition makes me question if he is an example of a person who can look in the mirror and perceive his drinking problems and drug addiction and do something healthy about these difficulties. Or, to the contrary, if he is someone who has to hit the bottom of the barrel before he gets alcohol and drug addiction rehab that leads to lasting sobriety.

It may be asked how counseling would help his alcohol and drug dependency. For starters, there are several recently discovered doctor-prescribed drugs that can help Benjamin through the alcohol and drug detox process, through his withdrawal symptoms, and help him avoid an alcohol or a drug relapse. Second, in rehab he could also learn more about his alcoholism symptoms and also about the different stages of alcoholism.

Third, Benjamin would learn to concede the fact that there is completely nothing healthy about drug addiction and careless and hazardous drinking. In a similar manner, he would also learn that engaging in one or both of these unhealthy situations is the road to shattered relationships, poor work and school performance, financial difficulties, deteriorating health, legal problems, and a premature death. Fourth, therapy for his depression and for his relationship difficulties might help him deal with these psychological difficulties more successfully and perhaps create less of a need for him to involve himself in addictive behavior. And finally, in counseling he could also learn more about the diverse symptoms of alcoholism that he has exhibited.

Because Benjamin lacks the drive to achieve much of anything in his life, it is plain to see that he badly needs some hope for a more productive existence. And the sad thing is that hope is almost everywhere around Benjamin if he could only get to the point in life to get the treatment he requires for his intense depression and chemical dependency and stay with his treatment program.

Benjamin is clearly too young to be overwhelmed in life. He doesn't realize this at the moment but if he can learn how to stay away from drugs and alcohol through drug and alcohol therapy and get the counseling he requires for his extreme depression, he can reorient his life and start living with passion, self-respect, and direction.

More solid relationships, a wonderful life, self esteem, and affirmative change are certainly possibilities for Benjamin. But only if he can become inspired to seek the professional rehab he needs, follow through with his therapy program, live his life in a healthy and drug and alcohol-free manner, and learn how to cultivate a more positive attitude about life.

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