Is it fighting alcohol?I doubt if you are an alcoholic or not?Wondering why you drink?If you have answered affirmatively to any of these questions, then you have taken the right path to recovery.Alcohol kills more than 240 people every day.Nevertheless, it is scary to admit that you are addicted and it is difficult to realize that you are an alcoholic.
Care is not the most difficult part.The most difficult part of the path to sobriety is an attempt to first realize sober.Nevertheless, people can really recover from alcoholism, moreover, more often than you think.This is difficult, but it is possible.
Guide - how to stay sober
Recognize the problem
The drinking face is inclined to think that it is healthy, alcohol is only a deviation from the problem and can stop at any moment.In the meantime, this is not the case.For a while the drink is habit and then becomes an irresistible addiction.As stated in the old saying, "the first step is to admit that you have a problem."
If you get caught to think you compare your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Ask the right question.Stop asking if you are an alcoholic or not.If you ask yourself this question, you are probably an alcoholic;
- One of themSInstead, ask yourself if drunkenness prevents live as you want.If so, then the first step is taken;
- Stop comparingSComparisons are of no benefit.This is someone else's life.You are a person with a complex, unique fate.
And what if you drink less than a Vasya neighbor who lives on the street, if you have a problem, then you have to deal with it.Comparing one's own drunkenness with others will only lead to self -justification.Think about your future "I".Imagine yourself in five years with the same drinking habits.This is what you are striving for?If not, it's time to solve alcohol problems.Recognizing the problem is the path to recovery.
Find out why you have to give up drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely enough to motivate people to give up drinking.We often prefer instant satisfaction.The refusal to drink is no exception.Long -term advantages are only in maintaining health and well -being.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Return the lost time.
Anna is moderately drinking a woman.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks a day.Each time she "loses" about 3 hours of productive time when he is drunk.Anna loses a month and a half every year.This is a very lost time that can be spent productively.Do not forget about the time Anna further wastes, leaving hangover syndrome.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms character and makes us grow.These advantages disappear when you are drunk.It may seem a terrible introduction to new people without drinking, but the damage they cause alcohol is more affectionate.
- Reason to get rich.
With what ease one parted with money, buying a drink, he can easily spend 1000-3000 rubles or more a week.After 6 months, rejection of drunkenness can save more than 70 thousand rubles and this is the price of a good ticket.Are you ready to pay 12 thousand rubles.per month for health problems?
- It is better to sleep.
Alcohol is a depressant, which means it leads to exhaustion.It also disrupts the sleep regime, leading to an imbalance of the whole body.Throw to drink, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
Alcohol refusal is the most healthy solution you can make.Normalizing weight, improving liver function, cholesterol, increased immunity, clear mind, emotional state - these are small advantages of sober lifestyle.
Make sobriety with the norm
Alcohol refusal should be the number one priority in your life.Install your own rules and do not break them.Say no to yourself, place sobriety on the pedestal and do not remove until you find out that your problem is solved.
Don't listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the floor - hold.There should be no obstacles that can stop, change the solution.There is no huge task for a person;If you wish, the mountains obey human power.
Bring the satellites to drink
It's easier to say what to do, right?Whether alcohol is the main part of your social life or that is what unites you.There are difficulties when friends, family drink around you.
- First step"To say you can't be close to drinking for a while."
- Step second- Cut off anyone they drank with.This may be the most difficult step in choosing a life -free life.The main thing is to remember that real friends will understand and support.The presence of a strong social circle is the best thing a person has.It includes people who help to get out of a vicious environment.
- Third Step- Don't become yourself.Go to people to wear interesting ideas.Look for an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.It always burns an idea, can and can perform actions that improve the quality of life.
Perhaps your sincere desire for a sober life will become infected for ex -comrades and you will be able to pull yourself and lose souls, which will improve the taste of victory.
Advertise your choice
Don't be afraid to tell people about your problem.This will add responsibility to achieve the goal.The information is able to stop the drinking offer.If without hesitation with any proposal to support the company to answer that you are an alcoholic, then you will stop tempting you, but you will not stop inviting you to good companies.
The recognition does not boast, this is just a reason to understand that you are limited in choosing.Alcohol is a very expensive pleasure they pay for life.
Stop drinking
The first 72 hours are the most difficult part of the recovery.As the body gets rid of alcohol, you will experience a sharp breakdown.Alcoholics experience painful pain and they often need professional help.
The pain after abandoning alcohol is proof that the body is healed.The onset of withdrawal symptoms may begin six hours after the last sip:
- Increased temperature, pressure, breathing shortness and rapid pulse.
- Excessive sweating.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, spasms, sometimes threatening life.
The body cleans this important step in the recovery process.At the same time, many are recovering to recur, seeking healing in the same alcohol.In this case, you cannot do without professional help.Don't be afraid of her, medical help for the good.This will relieve the pain and the recovery process will be much easier.
Change your attitude
- Even after admitting that you have a problem, you need to change your attitude to the situation.
- Don't be angry with people when trying to help.Feel free to ask for help.
- Don't suppress yourself, you went the difficult road.Remember that you are taking the right steps on the way to recovery.
- Be prepared for difficulties, the bad attitude of others, but you have made the first step that does not allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation
Sometimes it is impossible to abandon alcohol yourself.You are too deeply sunk to understand everything without professional help.There are both stationary and outpatient rehabilitation programs that offer the necessary help.
The choice allows you to find the necessary program where you can stop and change your image.The main thing is to find yourself and enjoy alcohol -free life.
2 + weeks after release
Complete detoxification of the body from alcohol can take up to two weeks.
As the person is released, one experiences symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- Feeling aggression, hostility.
- Weight loss of sexual attraction.
- Night nightmares.
Let's not bother you.Positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
The worse is that there may be a longing for alcohol that has been going on throughout his life.Even after the removal of all traces of alcohol from the body, the brain will still want to return to the balance of the chemicals it is used to.But knowing the source of these symptoms is the key to fighting addiction.
Develop and enter new hobbies and habits that turn off the bottle.Watch sports, lead a healthy lifestyle, look for interesting and enthusiastic people who will not allow you to give up.
It is always helpful to have support for friends who understand what you are going through.Go to war with your addiction.Recovery is a process throughout the life of a delightful sense of freedom.