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Alcohol
The overuse of alcohol
Alcoholism
How can we help people addicted to alcohol?
The overuse of alcohol is drinking:
- under age
- In too large quantities
- Under inadequate circumstances
A person who drinks too much:
- is repeating drinking, causing inability to exercise their job, house and social duties
- is causing threat of their own and other people security
- is getting themselves into continuous troubles with in relations with other people and law due to because of drinking alcohol
- is risking their health and has physical pain after drinking alcohol
- is behaving in the way that is not accepted by others
Drinking alcohol under inadequate circumstances is a consumption:
- before or in the time of driving
- during the illness or taking medicines
- during the pregnancy or sucking
- during the psychical discomfort
Alcoholism or the addiction to alcohol is a disease. It begins and develops beyond the knowledge of the sick person. It can bring to a precocious death. It's symptoms are:
- the subjective feeling of being desirous of alcohol - there are appearing impressions similar to hunger and internal compulsions of drinking , (and) the sense of panic and the threat that they cannot do long without alcohol
- the loss of control over drinking, after having began drinking, there turns out an impossibility to decide about the quantity of alcohol they drink and also about the moment of breaking off
- the abstinence symptoms - a break in drinking is causing among others: an anxiety and a susceptibility, cold fits and muscle trembling, sweat, nausea, consciousness disorder, and hallucinations; the addicted person tries to dismiss ailments with the help of using alcohol
- the change of alcohol tolerance - the increase of tolerance - drinking the same quantity of alcohol as always is causing much weaker effects; the decrease of tolerance
- using the smaller doses of alcohol similar to inebriate's effects
- the concentration life around alcohol - the alcohol presence is becoming very important, is focusing attention and behavior on the opportunity to drink and access to alcohol
- the memory and consciousness disorder - after having drink there turn up so called "memory lacks", the fragments of the events are disappearing out of mind; much more things are happening beyond the consciousness of the addicted person
- the relapses to drinking after trying to maintain the periodical abstinence - a man is starting to perceive that drinking is eluding their control and is trying to prove (without any success) that they can have the situation well in
hand.
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Alcohol Aabstinence Syndrome
These is a syndrome that appears in a drunk after giving up drinking. To these belong: sickness, headaches, anorexia, sweating, irregular heartbeat. Then, as time proceeds, there is insomnia, fear, nightmares, over sensitivity, bursting out, depression. Abstinence symptoms disappear after providing the organism with alcohol, so called "wedge" that brings relief or night drinking. It is similar with drug addiction. The symptoms arising after detoxication of an organism are alleviated by providing drug (of course the soothe is limited in time. Than it is even worse). And this is exactly what addiction means.
Alcoholic train
Getting drunk every day for a few days or weeks. Usually it follows a period of drinking smaller amounts. An alcoholic train is an evidence that a person is an alcohol addict at least in critical stage of addiction.
Delirium tremens
Called also shivering delirium. It starts in the evening and continues at night. Alcoholics have visual or auditory illusions, as well as insomnia, fear, kinesthetic anxiety, temporal loss of orientation of time, place or environment. There can happen shivering of arms, body or neck. Equally possible is fever. Delirium starts 2-3 days after giving up drinking or during a long alcoholic train. The first symptoms of delirium are, apparent after terminating drinking, lightening of sleep, nightmares and over sensitivity to visual and auditory stimuli. Delirium or its symptoms are a signal of "reaching" the prolonged stage of alcohol addiction.
Alcohol epilepsy
It is the effect of brain's damage by alcohol. Epileptic aattaacks happen most often on the first or second day after terminating drinking. The first aid is normally putting some object between jaws (wich uables a person to bithe their tongue) and lying down a person on some soft surface. Epileptic attacks caused by alcohol are always a big danger for life.
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whether know, that:
A system of illusion and denial.
It is a psychological symptom of alcoholism which decides about self destruction. It is based on a mechanism of defensive projection, which means delegating all reasons for once's behaviour and responsibility for one's performance. It is also formed on the basis of magical and wishful thinking and conviction such as "It is enough to persuade something to someone to make it happen". Starting from the end of critical stage the alcohol addict goes through the proving stage that he is stronger than alcohol. ("I can keep on drinking because if I want to stop - I can do that). This waay even a short break in drinking is unconsciously built in the ideology connected with drinking, which is a system of illusion and denial.
Known for their efficiency
Alcohol therapy centres in the West base their programs of alcohol addicts' aid on the method of Anonymous Alcoholics' movement, so called Twelve steps AA. The founders of this movement (years 1935 - 1940 in the USA) referred to the changes that St. Paul went through as a human who experienced the failure of his contemporary life, his humanty. In order to give up addition it is necessary to attend the meetings of Anonymoous Alcoholics, Good therapy works highly efficiently among 50 to 70% patiets not returning to drinking after the therapy.
Treatment of Alcoholism
It is not treatment in the meaning of the word commonly accepted in the society. There is no external intervention in alcoholism, that could eliminate the causes of the illness. Treatment oof alcoholism means supporting individual's decision and effort to stop drinking. As such a decision and effort is not made - a man can not bee helped. However, there is a deep meaning in methods constituting the treatment of alcoholism. People who are alcohol addicted and persistently keeping abstinence without these methods are only exceptions. It is worth mentioning, though, the "divorce" with alcohol leads to a deeper change in personality, therefore especially long-time effects bring different forms of group therapy - especially AA programme. In case you search for the ways to resolve a problem with alcoholism, please acknowledge our therapeutic offer.
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