Are you fighting with alcohol?I doubt you are an alcoholic or not?Wondering why you drink?If you answered any of the questions, you chose the right way to heal.Alcohol kills more than 240 people a day.Nevertheless, it is scary to admit that you are addicted and difficult to recognize that you are an alcoholic.
Care is not the most difficult part.The hardest part of the road to sanity is the experiment to first recognize himself sober.However, people can really recover from alcoholism, and more often than you think.This is difficult, but possible.
Guide - how to stay sober
Recognize the problem
The drinking person is willing to think that he is healthy, alcohol is just a difference from the problem and can stop at any time.Meanwhile, that's not the case.The former drink becomes customary and then becomes an irresistible addiction.As the old saying stated, "The first step is to admit that you have a problem."
If you catch yourself to think of comparing your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Ask the correct question.Don't ask yourself whether you are alcoholic or not.If you ask yourself this question, you are probably an alcoholic;
- One of them- Instead, ask yourself that drunkenness prevents you as you want.If so, we will take the first step;
- Stop comparison- Comparisons do not benefit.This is someone else's life.You are a complex, unique person.
So what if you drink less than Vasya a neighbor who lives on the street, if she has a problem, she has to deal with it.Comparing your own drunkenness with others only leads to self -definition.Think of your future "I".Imagine yourself in five years, drinking the same habits.Do you strive for that?If not, it is time to solve alcohol problems.Recognizing the problem is the way of healing.
Find out why you should stop drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely enough to motivate people to stop drinking.Often we prefer immediate satisfaction.The denial of the drink is no exception.Long -term benefits are only to maintain health and prosperity.
Here are 4 short -term benefits:
- Return the lost time.
Anna drinks a woman moderately.He drinks three times a week, 2-3 drinks a day.Every time approx.It loses 3 hours of productive time, drunk.Anna loses one and a half months every year.This is a lot of lost time that can be spent productively.Don't forget the time when Anna also loses, leaving the hangover syndrome.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation is the character and grows.These benefits disappear when you are drunk.It may seem awful with new people without drinking, but the damage causing alcohol is worse.
- The reason for enrichment.
With the ease of ease a person is separated with money, buying a drink, easily spending 1000-3000 rubles a week.After 6 months, the rejection of drunkenness can save more than 70,000 rubles, and this is the cost of a good ticket.You are ready to pay 12,000 rubles.Monthly for health problems?
- Better to sleep.
Alcohol is depressant, which means leading to exhaustion.It also violates the mode of sleep, which leads to the imbalance of the entire body.Drop drink, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
Denial of alcohol is the healthiest decision you can make.Normalization of weight, improvement of liver function, cholesterol, immunity, pure mind, emotional state - these are the small benefits of a common sense.
Make soberness with the norm
Denial of alcohol should be the number one priority.Install your own rules and do not interrupt them.Tell yourself "no", put sanity on the pedestal and not remove it until you understand that your problem has been resolved.
Don't listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Enter the word - keep it.No obstacles that can stop or change the decision should not be stopped.There is no overwhelming task for a person;If necessary, the mountains obey human power.
Bring the drinking companions
It's easier to tell you what to do, right?Regardless of whether alcohol is the main part of social life, or just what combines you.There are difficulties where friends, the family drinking around you.
- First step- To say that you can't drink close for a while.
- Second step- Cut off anyone with whom they were drinking.This may be the hardest step in choosing a life without alcohol.The point is to remember that true friends understand and support it.The presence of a strong social circle is best as man.This includes people who help you get out of an evil environment.
- Third step- Don't become yourself.Go to the people to take themselves with interesting ideas.Find an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.Always burn an idea, perform and perform activities that improve the quality of life.
His sincere desire for common sense may become infectious for his former comrades and will be able to pull himself out and lost souls that improve the taste of victory.
Advertise your choice
Don't be afraid to tell people the problem.This will achieve responsibility to achieve the goal.Information is able to stop the drink offer.If you do not hesitate to support any proposal to support the company to respond to being an alcoholic, you will stop seduction but do not stop inviting good companies.
Recognition cannot be boasted, this is just the reason to understand that the choice is limited.Alcohol is too expensive for which they pay for a living.
Stop drinking
The first 72 hours is the most difficult part of healing.As soon as the body gets rid of alcohol, it will experience an acute fracture.Alcoholics suffer painful pain and often need professional help.
After leaving alcohol, the pain is evidence that the body is healed.The beginning of withdrawal symptoms can begin six hours after the last sip:
- Temperatures, pressure, shortness of breathing and rapid pulse are increasing.
- Excessive sweating.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps are sometimes threatened.
The body cleans this important step in the healing process.At the same time, many recovery falls into a downturn, looking for healing in the same alcohol.In this case, you cannot do without professional help.Don't be afraid of good medical care.This relieves pain and the restoration process will be much easier.
Change your attitude
- Even if you admit that you have a problem, you need to change your attitude to the situation.
- Don't be angry with people when they try to help.Ask for help.
- Don't leave yourself, you have made a difficult journey.Find out to take the right steps to heal.
- Be prepared for the difficulties, the bad attitude of others, but took the first step that does not allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation center
Sometimes it is impossible to leave alcohol.He was too deeply destroyed to figure out everything without professional help.There are both stationary and outpatient rehabilitation programs that provide the necessary help.
The choice allows you to find the necessary program where you can stop and change your image.The most important thing is to find yourself and enjoy life without alcohol.
2 + week after release
Full detoxification of the body can take up to two weeks from alcohol.
When a person is liberated, a person experiences symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- The feeling of aggression, hostility.
- Weakening of sexual attraction.
- Nightmares.
Let it not disturb.Positive effects block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
Worst of all, you may long for alcohol, which continues throughout your life.Even after removing all the traces of alcohol from the body, the brain continues to return to the balance of chemicals that are used to.But knowing the sources of symptoms is the key to the fight against addiction.
Develop and introduce new hobbies and habits that exclude the bottle.Look at the sport, live a healthy lifestyle, look for interesting and enthusiastic people who will not allow you to give up.
It is always useful to support friends who understand what you are going through.Go to war with your addiction.Recovery is a lifelong process of freedom of freedom.