Are you fighting alcohol?Do you suspect whether you are addicted to alcohol?You are wondering why you drink alcohol?If you answer in the sentence that confirms any of these questions, then you have gone the right way to recover.Alcohol killed more than 240 people a day.However, it is scary to admit that you depend on, and it's hard to realize that you are an alcoholic.
Taking care is not the most difficult part.The most difficult part of the path to alertness is an attempt to realize himself awake.However, people can actually recover from alcoholic, moreover, more often than you think.This is difficult, but it is possible.
Instructions - How to alert
Recognize the problem
A drinker tends to think that he is healthy, alcohol is just a start from this problem, and he can stop at any time.Meanwhile, this is not so.A drink for an hour in a habit, and then became an irresistible dependence.As stated in the old saying, "The first step is to admit that you have a problem."
If you see yourself think that you are comparing your drunkenness to others, try the following three things:
- Ask the correct question.Stop wondering if you are addicted to alcohol or not.If you ask yourself this question, maybe you are an alcoholic;
- One of them.Instead, wonder if drunkenness can prevent life as you want.If so, the first step is done;
- Stop comparison.Comparison does not bring any benefits.This is the lives of others.You are a person with complex and unique fate.
So, if you drink less than Vasya, a neighbor living on the street, if you have a problem, then you have to deal with it.Comparing the drunkenness of someone else with others will lead to autonomy.Think about your future "I".Imagine yourself for five years with similar habits to drink.This is what you are striving for?If not, it's time to solve the problem with alcohol.The recognition of the problem is the way to recover.
Understand why you should quit drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely enough to motivate people to quit alcohol.We often like the satisfaction immediately.Refusing to drink is no exception.The long -term advantage is to maintain health and good.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Return the time lost.
Anna is drinking a moderate woman.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks a day.Each time, she took about 3 hours of working time, drunk.Each year, Anna takes a month and a half.This is a lot of lost time can be used effectively.Do not forget the time that Anna also died, leaving the hangover syndrome.
- Find people dialogue.
The conversation forms the character and makes us develop.These advantages disappear when you are drunk.It seems to be a terrible acquaintance for newcomers without drinking alcohol, but the damage causes alcohol is worse.
- One reason to get rich.
With the lightness that a broke up, buying drinks, he can easily spend 1000-3000 rubles or more every week.After 6 months, the drunken refusal can save more than 70 thousand rubles, and this is the cost of a good ticket.You are ready to pay 12,000 rubles.Each month for health problems?
- Better to sleep.
Alcohol is a depression, that means he leads to exhaustion.It also violates the sleep regime, leading to the imbalance of the entire organism.Throw to drink, this is a guarantee for peace and health.
Refusing alcohol is the healthiest decision you can make.Normalization of weight, improving liver function, cholesterol, increasing immunity, clear mind, emotional state - these are small advantages of alert lifestyle.
Create alertness to the standard
Refusing alcohol should be the number one priority in your life.Set your own rules and do not break them.Saying that there is nothing to yourself, putting alertness on the pedestal and not eliminating until you understand that your problem has been solved.
Do not listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give from - keep.There should be no obstacles that can stop, change the decision.There is no overwhelming task for one person;If desired, the mountains obey the power of man.
Bringing accompanying friends to drink alcohol
It is easier to say, right?Regardless of whether alcohol is the main part of your social life, or whether it is a union of you.Difficulties arise in friends and family drinking around you.
- Step- To say that you cannot near drink for a while.
- Step two- Cut off anyone they drank.This may be the most difficult step when choosing a life without alcohol.The main thing is to remember that friends will really understand and support.The presence of a strong social circle is the best thing that one person has.It includes people who help escape an evil environment.
- Third step- Don't be in yourself.Go to everyone, to bring interesting ideas.Looking for an alternative solution for alcohol.Humans are not an animal.He always burns an idea, may and can take actions to improve the quality of life.
You can want your sincere desire to a lusing life that will become infected to your previous comrades and you will be able to pull yourself out and lose your soul, which will enhance 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.Information may prevent the offer.If you do not hesitate for any proposal to support the company to answer that you are an alcoholic, then you will stop tempting you, but will constantly invite you to good companies.
Not proud recognition, this is just a reason to understand that you are limited in choosing.Alcohol is too expensive is a joy that they pay for life.
Quit drink
The first 72 hours is the most difficult part of recovery.When your body gets out of alcohol, you will undergo acute breakdown.Alcoholics experience pain, and they often need professional help.
Pain, after giving up alcohol, is evidence that the body is healed.The beginning of the withdrawal symptoms may start six hours after the last sip:
- Increase the temperature, pressure, shortness of breath and fast circuit.
- Excessive sweating.
- Concussion.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threaten life.
The body is deleted this important step during recovery.At the same time, repeatedly recreated into relapse, seeking healing in the same wine.In this case, you cannot do without professional help.Do not be afraid of her, take care of health for good things.It will relieve pain, and the recovery process will be much easier.
Change your attitude
- Even after you admit that you have a problem, you need to change your attitude to the situation.
- Do not be angry with people when they are trying to help.Please ask for help.
- Do not suppress yourself, you have gone a difficult path.Realize that you are taking the right step on the path of recovery.
- Prepare for the difficulties and bad attitudes of others, but you have taken the first step does not allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation Center
Sometimes it is impossible to give up alcohol on its own.You are too bogged down to find things without professional help.There are also rehabilitation and outpatient rehabilitation programs that provide necessary support.
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 life without alcohol.
2 + Week after release
Completely detoxifying the body from alcohol can take up to two weeks.
When the person is released, a person experiences the symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- A feeling of aggression, hostility.
- Weakening sexual attraction.
- Night nightmares.
Let it not bother you.Positive effects will prevent all negative emotions.
... and all these jazz
The worst is, there may be a craving for alcohol, continuing to be a lifetime.Even after removing all the traces of the alcohol from the body, the brain will still want to return to the balance of the chemicals that it has used.But the knowledge of the origin of these symptoms is the key to the war against dependence.
Develop and introduce new hobbies and habits to eliminate bottles.Watch sports, have a healthy lifestyle, seek interesting and enthusiastic people, who will not let you give up.
Always useful when there is support for friends who understand what you are going through.Go to war with your dependence.Recovery is a lifetime process for an interesting freedom.