A BREAK IN THE COURSE OF LIFE

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Drinking brings pleasure

• Increased will and tolerance to alcohol (so called "strong head")

• full acceptance of sobriety as a state of body, mind and spirit

• Change of a lifestyle

WEDGE

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Looking for occasions for drinking
• Initiating drinking rounds
• After drinking - better mood - 'spirit of a company"
• Alcohol brings relief, liberates from tension
• Started drinking finishes with "going off"
• Attempts of "hidden' drinking, alone, for a hangover

• Creative use of free time
• Learning to be sober at different social occasions
• Taking care if family integration and creating a warm climate for raising children
• Reconstruction of family links and care for reviving the emotions and trust
• Success at work helps to recreate the feeling of self-value and independence
• Involvement in helping others who need assistance.

LOSS OF CONTROL

CHANGE OF LIFE CONCEPT

• Remorses
• A wedge brings relief
• Family maltreatment
• Marriage conflicts
• Work absence
• Excusing drinking by numerous occasions
  Increased aggression and conflict with a law
• Irregular nutrition
• Neglecting the appearance
• Problems with libido 
• Drinking in "trains" exchanged with terms of total abstinence for improving health
  Proving "stamina"
• Making the abstinency oath

• One can start therapy in every stage of illness
• Feeling of emptiness and helplessness strengthening in aiming at sobriety by use of ambulatory forms of support such as advisory
• Work on personal development in groups of support such as "anonymous alcoholics", abstinence club or religious abstinence movements.
• Care of psychical hygiene 
• Skillful and constructive psychical tension resolution in a stressful situation 
  Care for one's health and physical condition
• Buildinng relations with family and persuading others taking up marriage or family therapy
• Making use of individual and group forms of psychological support. 
• Return to work and giving up a "pest's" lifestyle

LOSS OF CONTROL

ADDICTION RECOGNITION

• Periods of long-time drinking
• Morning drinking
• Great hangover
• Drinking lonely 
• Loss of alcohol tolerance
• Trying non-consumption alcohols
• "Inventions" "Moonlights"
• family links damage
• thefts, selling family possession to buy alcohol 
• family and social degradation 
• alcoholic dullness
• return to illiteracy
• alcohol becomes the sole target in life 
• alcohol psychosis
• delirium
• alcohol epilepsy
• somatic illnesses
• polineuropathy, liver cirrhosis
• total exhaustion of the organism

• creating a plan of change of interests and persistent attempts to bring it to the life step by step
• accepting own helplessness towards alcohol and giving up, accepting the view of a sober life 
• using pharmacological support
• anticol, esperal 
• opening o oneself for information about alcohol disease and ways of overcoming the addiction 
• building the awareness of a problem of alcoholism
• pharmacological therapy of mental and somatic malfunctions 
• detoxication, pausing the train, clearing up the organism

DEATH