If it is difficult not to drink for several days in a row or, when circumstances require (by taking medicine, the need to work), many understand that they have addictive and begin to seek to solve themselves from being ridiculed to get rid of alcoholism.
An alcohol dependence psychology
To understand how to stop drinking alcohol yourself, it is necessary to study the nature of addictive behavior.Each type of addiction has two components, including alcohol.On the one hand, there is a mechanism of cell compensation, when periodic body poisoning leads to changes in metabolism (the body adjusts in new conditions).This process of persons perceives as the need for the next dose of alcohol.Therefore, an alcoholic feels physical relief when satisfying this tow.
On the other hand, the reason for the development of alcohol dependence is the lack of emotional balance: the feeling of internal gaps that a person tries, in one way or another to fill something outside.Fee for compensation can be some kind of activity by distracting or taking awareness of the substance.
Important!Physiological dependence is played far from the main role in the development of alcohol dependence.
Behavioral (psychological) dependence is that a person is looking for a reason to return to the emotional state that once caused intoxication alcohol.To interrupt this associative connection between alcohol input and the appearance of psychological relaxation is very problematic, which causes the main difficulties in the independent fight against alcoholism.
Is it possible to stop with your own alcohol
The harder stage of alcoholism, which is harder to stop drinking without the help of a doctor.If in the first phase, when there is no physiological dependence and retreat syndrome, it is relatively easy to leave alcohol, and then later attempted to carry with this task without special medications often fail.
Important!A sharp rejection of alcohol with a strong gathering is associated with severe physical suffering and full of high risk of health complications to death.In this case, alcohol detoxification is required gradually and preferably under the supervision of the doctor.
Still, I hope in the way of a vicious circle.They prove the examples of happy people who have found a way to overcome civil habit.Causes of alcoholism
Causes of alcoholism
Three factors can contribute to the development of alcohol dependence:
- Genetics.Risk of disease development in humans whose biological parents abused alcohol several times higher than in children tootalers.
Pay attention!Despite the fact that in some cases the tendency of alcoholism due to hereditary factors, no one was sentenced to becoming an alcoholic since birth.
- Negative environmental factors (personal life problems, careers, deaths of loved ones).Attempts to drown grief in the bottle often lead to alcoholism.Someone begins to drink for courage.
- Cultural values.Drinking is part of our identity.Alcohol has become synonymous with a "good holiday"."Mild" is still fashionable.Among young people and girls, ability pour huge doses of alcohol is often considered a special sign of adults and steepness.The first steps to addiction most people take in pretty young age.First of all, men fall into a risk zone, because male alcoholism in society much more tolerant than females.
Where to start resolving addictions
Once the decision is made to leave alcohol independently, above all, it is necessary to take control of non-behaviors, but to balance emotions.
Training in relaxation methods
Supervisor sometimes for years to drink and break the fact that the main reason for the appearance of alcohol dependence does not remove emotional imbalance.The basic principles of recovery program should be the creation of pleasant sobriety, teaching more healthy stress release methods.Just remove alcohol, remove the only "stick" on which the psyche was based when falling into critical situations is wrong.
You must learn to relax and cheer up without alcohol help before throwing.To do this, you can try the following techniques:
- Meditation.The easiest way to stop drinking is to introduce meditation in your daily routine.There is nothing complicated in this practice.You just have to withdraw, take a favorable pose and close your eyes.Within 15 minutes, you should try not to think about anything, focus only on your own breaths and exhales.Meditation helps stabilize the emotional background to achieve higher control over your thinking and actions.
- Muscle relaxation techniques.For example, consistent tension and relaxation of 10-15 seconds of different muscle groups.You can start with your head head, which ending your fingers and vice versa.Regular performance exercises help reduce physical and nerve stress, eliminates attacks of fear and panic.
- Technique of peaceful visualization.Universal images of the sea with calm waves, the sky with slowly floating white clouds are considered.To improve the effect, you can listen to audio files with recording nature sounds.
Work with negative emotions
A person who finds a way to feel satisfaction and happily most of the time, very quickly begins to feel a loss of interest in alcohol.He has a natural desire for other things and classes.Thus, the need for hard self-confidence, the application of WillPower is disappearing.
In the fight against addiction, it is important that a person can find the peace in which he is currently.Treat yourself with understanding and sympathy.When the habit of abuse of alcohol declares the war, he hates her, arrangements hunting her, refuses to give up without a fight.Fighting with your own subconscious is meaningless.Unconscious labor programs can only try to lead to an area of consciousness and gently transform.
It is necessary to disconnect the habit of drinking with emotional experiences.Change the negative event event - departure from negative emotions - alcohol entry."Emotional pain, like a physical, signaling system that informs some kind of violation on the hot plate would end with serious burns if they did not force his hand on time. Negative emotions are also not something bad to avoid.
Negative emotions help in quickly determining errors in your own thinking.So, derogatory thoughts aimed at other people or themselves always feel like sadness, wine, irritation, anger.They are so uncomfortable precise to make us give up the messages they call them.
Pay attention!Stress is easier to warn than removed.
Looking for more types and optimistic appearance of life, we experience positive emotions.The need to get into an alcoholic or kind of drowning your feelings in a way.
Look for appropriate motivation
If we get rid of alcohol addiction feel like an obligation, not personal desire, then the chances can stop using significantly reducing.For this reason, it is so hard to come close to loved ones that suffer from alcoholism.
The person has the strength to leave alcohol only when he starts fully understanding the risk of losing something very significant for himself (family, respect, career).At the same time, he often reaches for the bottle when he loses the meaning of life.Therefore, in order to solve alcohol addiction, you need to find in your present or future things that is worth the remaining sobs and healthy, which is more valuable than joy of shit.
Additional information.It will be useful to listen to the Audiobook Allen Carra "easy way to stop drinking" or studying the work of Claude Schneiter "alcoholism treatment".
How long does the quitting period last
In people who have been so abused by alcohol for a long time, the recovery process occurs quite painful.The muscles hurt pain, migraines, nausea.These symptoms indicate the beginning of the restructuring of the body.
The human body is a very flexible tool.If you manage to keep and drink alcohol for at least five days, the body will start actively looking for a new way to balance and stop sending pulses into the brain of the need for a new dose of alcohol.The desire for drinking will decrease.Therefore, in the first week you have to collect all the will in your fist and try not to stop.Then it will be much easier.
Pay attention!It is possible to reduce the craving for alcohol with "revel" recipes based on plants only in the absence of medical contraindices.
As a rule, the fifth day after declined alcohol, the person begins to feel a stable improvement in welfare.However, food is still weakly tolerated.Can reach a vomit.Significant changes in physical condition occur a month after refusing alcohol.The digestive problems are eliminated, mental processes have been entered.
However, it is just a physiological side of the problem.Mental renewal and resolve behavioral dependence can take a lot more time.After all, you have to learn to deal with life problems without alcohol help.
Pay attention!It is necessary to distinguish withdrawal syndrome after a goal with psychological symptoms, which can capture a surprise during the first year after leaving alcohol.
Many have stopped drinking alcohol, faced heavy anxiety, non-existent, irritability and depression.Sedatives and antipsychotics at this stage can become an auxiliary tool, but do not replace a job with psycho.Completely take place happens 6-12 months after the last glass of alcohol.
How to organize time after rejection
As a rule, alcohol dependence widely supports the way of life that a person leads.For example, in the thoughts of many people, an indispensable holiday attribute and celebration is alcohol, dinner should not do without a glass of wine, watch a soccer game without a pair of beers.
Even if a person dares to lead a sober life, their own friends and colleagues can knock him out of the way, breaking the use of glass or two on each common event.Others can still be respected by female leaving alcohol.But how don't you drink alcohol at all?Often alcohol is present at business meetings, commemoration and in many other situations, when rejecting drinks is not exactly.It is best to lie to you are allergic or driving but to move into detailed explanations.Also, to adhere to the rules of the label, sometimes it is enough to moisten your lips and extract a glass.
The first week and months after alcohol rejection can be determined to be touched on all areas of life.Therefore, the steps are on the path of liberation from the dependence of changing the usual routine, relentless deliverance from the surrounding environment.It is advisable to plan detoxification during the rest and performed it from the usual situation.It is important to enter moral home support.After all, members of a single family are sincerely interested in the health of each other.When you are eliminated by merging the habit with the lifestyle, it has nothing to rely.