If it is difficult not to drink for a few days in a row or, when the circumstances require it (taking medication, the need to work), many realize that they have an addiction and begin to seek a way to get rid of alcoholism on their own.
Alcohol addiction psychology
To understand how to get rid of drinking alcohol yourself, it is necessary to study the nature of the addictive behavior.Any type of addiction has two ingredients, including alcohol.On the one hand, there is a mechanism of cellular compensation, when periodic poisoning of the body alcohol leads to a change in metabolism (the body adapts to work in new conditions).This process is perceived by one person as a need for another dose of alcohol.Therefore, the alcoholic feels physical relief when completing this attraction.
On the other hand, the reason for developing alcohol addiction is the lack of an emotional balance: the feeling of the inner gap that one is trying, in one way or another, to fill something from the outside.A compensation tool can be a type of activity that distracts the attention or acquisition of substance awareness.
Important!Physiological dependence plays away from the main role in the development of alcohol addiction.
The dependence of (psychological) behavior is that a person is seeking a reason to return to the emotional state that was once caused by alcohol intoxication.To disrupt this associative link between alcohol intake and the emergence of psychological relaxation is very problematic, which causes the main difficulties in an independent fight against alcoholism.
Is it possible to remove drinking yourself
The harder the stage of alcoholism, the harder it is to stop drinking without the help of doctors.If in the first stage, when there is no physiological dependence syndrome and attraction, it is relatively easy to abandon alcohol, then at a later date an attempt to cope with this task without special medicines often fail.
Important!A sharp rejection of severe alcohol is associated with severe physical suffering and filled with a high risk of health complications to death.In this case, alcohol detoxification is gradually and preferably under the supervision of a physician.
However, hope for a way out of a wicked circle.This is evidenced by examples of the lucky ones who have found a way to overcome a devastating habit.The causes of alcoholism
The causes of alcoholism
Three factors can be distinguished that contribute to the development of alcohol addiction:
- Genetics.The risk of developing the disease in humans whose biological parents abused alcohol is several times higher than in children of teetotalers.
Pay attention!Despite the fact that in some cases a tendency for alcoholism is due to hereditary factors, no one is doomed to become alcoholic from birth.
- Negative environmental factors (problems in personal life, career, death of loved ones).Attempts to stifle grief in a bottle often lead to alcoholism.Someone begins to drink for courage.
- Cultural values.Drinking is part of our identity.Alcohol became a synonym for "good rest"."Blag" is still in fashion.Among the young boys and girls, the ability to spill large doses of alcohol is often considered a special sign of adulthood and slope.The first steps of dependence are taken by most people at a very young age.First of all, men fall into the danger zone, as male alcoholism in society is much more tolerant than female.
Where to start escapes from addiction
Once the decision is made to abandon alcohol independently, first of all, it is necessary to take control of not behavior, but to balance emotions.
Training in relaxation methods
Sometimes supervisor for years to drink and burst with the fact that the main reason for the appearance of alcohol addiction is not eliminated an emotional imbalance.The basic principles of the Recovery Program should be the creation of comfortable soberity, learning healthier methods for stress relief.Simply remove alcohol, remove the only "crutch" on which the psyche was based when it falls on critical situations is wrong.
Before throwing drinks, you need to learn to relax and cheer for yourself without the help of alcohol.To do this, you can try the following techniques:
- Meditation The easiest way to leave yourself drinking is to introduce meditation to your daily routine.There is nothing complicated in this practice.You just have to retire, get a suitable position and close your eyes.Within 15 minutes, you should try not to think about anything, focusing solely on your breaths and extracts.Meditation helps to stabilize the emotional background, gain greater control over his thinking and actions.
- Muscle relaxation techniques.For example, the continuous tension and relaxation of 10-15 seconds of different muscle groups.You can start with the head of the head, ending with your fingers and vice versa.Regular performance of exercise helps to reduce physical and nervous stress, eliminates fear and panic attacks.
- Pacific visualization technique.Universal images of the sea with quiet waves, the sky with the white clouds slowly floating.To improve the effect, you can listen to audio files with a recording of nature sounds.
Working with negative emotions
A person who finds a way to feel comfortable and happy most of the time soon begins to feel loss of interest in alcohol.He of course has a desire for other things and classes.Thus, the need for difficult self -control, the application of the will disappears.
In the fight against addiction, it is important for a person to be able to find peace in the place where it is currently.Treat yourself with understanding and sympathy.When the habit of alcohol abuse is declared war, they hate it, organize a hunt for it, it refuses to give up without a war.The fight with its subconscious is meaningless.Psyche programs that work unconsciously can only be judged in the field of consciousness and gently transformed.
It is necessary to disrupt the connection of the habit of drinking with emotional experiences.Change the chain "Negative Event - Removal from Negative Emotions - Alcohol Taking".Emotional pain, like physical, is the body's signal system that informs about some type of violation.For example, any casual touch on a hot plate would end with a serious burn if the pain impulses had not forced him to pull his hand in time.Negative emotions are also not something bad you should avoid.
Negative emotions help to quickly determine mistakes in your thinking.So the derogatory thoughts that other people are targeting or themselves always feel like sadness, summer, irritation, anger.They are so uncomfortable then to make us abandon the messages they called.
Pay attention!Stress is easier to warn than to remove.
Looking for a more polite and optimistic view of life, we experience positive emotions.The need to get into an alcoholic dish or in some way strangles your feelings in some way.
Look for the right motivation
If you get rid of alcohol addiction feels like an obligation, and not a personal desire, then the chances of being able to stop using significant reduction.For this reason, it is so difficult to reach close to loved ones suffering from alcoholism.
One person has forces to leave alcohol only when he begins to fully understand the risk of losing something very significant to himself (family, respect, career).At the same time, he often arrives for a bottle when he loses the meaning of life.Therefore, to get rid of alcohol addiction independently, you must find in your present or the same future that is worth it to remain sober and healthy, which is more valuable than the joy of the forgetfulness of the mute.
Additional information.It will be useful to listen to the Audiobook -un of Allen Carra "simple way to leave drinking" or to study the work of Claude Schneiter "Treatment of Alcoholism".
How long lasts the removal period
In people who have long abused alcohol for a long time, the recovery process occurs quite painfully.There is painful pain in the muscles, migraine, nausea suffering.These symptoms indicate the onset of restructuring of the body.
The human body is a very flexible tool.If you manage to keep yourself and do not drink alcohol for at least five days, the body will start actively seeking a new way to balance yourself and stop sending impulses to the brain about the need for a new dose of alcohol.The desire to drink will sit.Therefore, in the first week, you need to gather all the strength of the will in a handful and try not to break down.Then it will be much easier.
Pay attention!Postebles possible to reduce the desire for alcohol with "lapel" recipes based on herb only in the absence of medical contraindications.
As a rule, on the fifth day after alcohol rejection, a person begins to feel a steady improvement in well -being.However, food is still poorly tolerated.Vomiting can happen.Significant changes in physical condition occur one month after alcohol rejection.Digestive problems are eliminated, mental processes are restored.
However, this is only the physiological side of the matter.Mental restoration and renunciation of behavior dependence can take much longer.After all, you need to learn to cope with the problems of life without the help of alcohol.
Pay attention!It is necessary to distinguish between post -binge traction syndrome with psychological symptoms, which can be caught surprised during the first year after alcohol abandonment.
Many, after ceasing to drink alcohol, face severe anxiety, insomnia, irritability and depression.Sedatives and antipsychotics at this stage can become an auxiliary tool, but they do not replace work with the psyche.Complete separation occurs 6-12 months after the last glass of alcohol.
How to arrange your time after refusing
As a rule, alcohol addiction is widely supported by the way of life that a person guides.For example, in the minds of many people, an indispensable attribute of holidays and celebrations is alcohol, dinner should not do without a glass of wine, watching a football match without some beer cans.
Even if a person dares to lead a sober life, his friends and colleagues can overthrow him out of the way, violating the use of a glass or two in any common event.Others can still be treated with respect for abandoning a woman from alcohol.But how not to drink alcohol at all?Often, alcohol is present at business meetings, commemoration and many other situations, when refusal to drink is not accurate enough.It is better to lie that you are allergic or driving than to go to detailed explanations.Also, to meet the labeling rules, it is sometimes enough to moisten your lips and set aside the glass.
The first weeks and months after alcohol rejection can be ascertained that it has affected all areas of life.Therefore, the important steps in the way of liberation from dependence are a change in the usual routine, a relentless liberation from the attraction.It is advisable to plan detoxification for the holiday time and direct it from the usual situation.It is important to record the moral support of the house.After all, members of a family are sincerely interested in each other's health.When the connection of habit with the way of life is eliminated, it has nothing to support.