If it is difficult not to drink for several days in a row or, when the circumstances require it (take medications, the need to work), many understand that they have an addiction and begin to look for a way of getting rid of alcoholism on their own.
Alcohol dependence psychology
To understand how to stop drinking alcohol yourself, it is necessary to study the nature of addictive behavior.Any type of dependence has two components, including alcohol.On the one hand, there is a cell compensation mechanism, when periodic poisoning of the body's alcohol leads to a change in metabolism (the body adapts to work in the new conditions).This process is perceived by a person as a need for the next dose of alcohol.Therefore, the alcoholic feels physical relief when he satisfies this traction.
On the other hand, the reason for the development of alcohol dependence is the lack of an emotional balance: the sensation of the inner vacuum that a person is trying, in one way or another, to fill something from the outside.A compensation means can be some type of activity that distracts attention or becomes aware of substances.
Important!Physiological addiction plays far from the main role in the development of alcohol dependence.
Behavioral addiction (psychological) is that a person is looking for a reason to return to the emotional state that was once caused by alcohol poisoning.Breaking this associative connection between alcohol intake and the appearance of psychological relaxation is very problematic, which causes the main difficulties in an independent struggle against alcoholism.
Is it possible to stop drinking alcohol on your own?
The more difficult the stage of alcoholism is, the more difficult it is to stop drinking without the help of doctors.If in the first stage, when there is no physiological dependence and withdrawal syndrome, it is relatively easy to abandon alcohol, then, on a later date, an attempt to deal with this task without special medications often fail.
Important!A strong rejection of alcohol with a severe binge is associated with severe physical suffering and is loaded with a high risk of health complications to death.In this case, alcohol detoxification is gradually and preferably necessary under the supervision of a doctor.
However, the hope of leaving a vicious circle exists.This is evidenced by examples of fortunate who have found a way to overcome a pernicious 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 people whose biological parents abused alcohol is several times greater than in children of the Tquetotalers.
Pay attention!Despite the fact that in some cases a tendency to alcoholism is due to hereditary factors, no one is condemned to become an alcoholic from birth.
- Negative environmental factors (problems in personal life, career, death of loved ones).Attempts to drown pain in a bottle often lead to alcoholism.Someone starts drinking for courage.
- Cultural values.Drinking is part of our identity.Alcohol became synonymous with "good rest.""Blag" is still fashionable.Among young people and girls, the ability to pour large doses of alcohol is often considered a special sign of adulthood and inclination.Most people take the first steps for dependence at a fairly early age.First, men fall into the risk zone, since male alcoholism in society is much more tolerant than women.
Where to start getting rid of the unit
After the decision is made to abandon alcohol independently, in the first place, it is necessary to take control of not behavior, but to balance emotions.
Training in relaxation methods
The supervisor sometimes for years to drink and breaks the fact that the main reason for the occurrence of alcohol dependence is not eliminated an emotional imbalance.The basic principles of the recovery program should be the creation of comfortable sobriety, teaching healthier methods to relieve stress.Simply eliminated alcohol, eliminated the only "crutch" on which the psyche was based when it falls in critical situations is incorrect.
Before throwing drink, you must learn to relax and cheer up without the help of alcohol.To do this, you can try the following techniques:
- Meditation.The easiest way to stop drinking is to introduce meditation into your daily routine.There is nothing complicated in this practice.You just need to retire, take a convenient pose and close your eyes.In 15 minutes, you should try not to think about anything, focusing only on your own breaths and exhalations.Meditation helps stabilize emotional background, to obtain greater control over your thinking and actions.
- Muscle relaxation techniques.For example, constant tension and relaxation of 10-15 seconds of several muscle groups.You can start your head, ending with your fingers and vice versa.Regular exercise performance helps reduce physical and nervous stress, eliminates fear and panic attacks.
- Pacific visualization technique.Universal images of the sea are considered with quiet waves, heaven with floating white clouds slowly.To improve the effect, you can listen to audio files with a recording of nature sounds.
Negative emotions
A person who finds a way of feeling satisfied and happy most of the time, very quickly begins to feel the loss of interest in alcohol.Naturally he has a desire for other things and classes.Therefore, the need for a hard car, the application of willpower disappears.
In the fight against agency, it is important that a person can find peace where he is at this time.Book with understanding and sympathy.When the alcohol abuse is declared war, they hate it, they fix a search for it, it refuses to give up without fighting.The fight with his own subconscious makes no sense.Psyche programs that work unconsciously can only try to bring to the area of consciousness and transform themselves gently.
It is necessary to break the habit of drinking with emotional experiences.Change the "Negative event: the deviation of negative emotions: alcohol intake".Emotional pain, such as the physicist, is the body signaling system that informs about some kind of rape.For example, each random touch to a hot plate would end with a serious burn if the pain impulses would not have forced him to pull his hand on time.Negative emotions are not something bad that needs to evade.
Negative emotions help quickly determine errors in their own thought.Therefore, derogatory thoughts aimed at other people or themselves always feel like sadness, wine, irritation, anger.They are so unpleasant then to make us abandon the messages they called them.
Pay attention!Stress is easier to notice than to eliminate.
Looking for a friendlier and most optimistic perspective of life, we experience positive emotions.The need to enter an alcoholic binge or somehow drowning their feelings in some way.
Look for adequate motivation
If getting rid of alcohol dependence, it feels like an obligation, and not as a personal desire, then the possibilities of being able to use significantly decrease.For this reason, it is very difficult to get close to loved ones suffering from alcoholism.
A person has the strength to leave alcohol only when he begins to realize that the risk of losing something very significant for himself (family, respect, career).At the same time, he often looks for a bottle when he loses the meaning of life.Therefore, to get rid of independently of alcohol dependence, you must find in your present or in the future the same for what is worth staying sober and healthy, which is more valuable than the joy of shitty forgotten.
Additional information.It will be useful to listen to Allen Carra's audiobook "easy way to stop drinking" or study the work of Claude Schneiter "treatment of alcoholism."
How long does the weaning period last?
In people who have abused alcohol for a long time, the recovery process occurs with enough pain.In the muscles there is painful pain, migraine, torment of nausea.These symptoms indicate the beginning of body restructuring.
The human body is a very flexible tool.If you manage to keep yourself and not drink alcohol for at least five days, the body will actively start looking for a new way of balance and stop sending impulses to the brain about the need for a new dose of alcohol.The desire to drink will decrease.Therefore, in the first week, you must collect all willpower in a fist and try not to break.Then it will be much easier.
Pay attention!It is possible to reduce alcohol desire with "flap" recipes based on herbs only in the absence of medical contraindications.
As a general rule, the fifth day after rejecting alcohol, a person begins to feel a constant improvement in the well.However, food is still little tolerated.Vomiting can occur.Significant changes in physical condition occur a month after rejecting alcohol.Problems with digestion are eliminated, mental processes are restored.
However, this is only the physiological side of the problem.Mental restoration and getting rid of behavior addiction can take much longer.After all, you must learn to deal with the problems of life without the help of alcohol.
Pay attention!It is necessary to distinguish between withdrawal syndrome after a binge with psychological symptoms, which can be surprised during the first year after abandoning alcohol.
Many, after stopping drinking alcohol, face severe anxiety, insomnia, irritability and depression.Sedatives and antipsychotics at this stage can become an auxiliary tool, but do not replace work with the psyche.The full weaning occurs 6-12 months after the last glass of alcohol.
How to organize your time after the refusal
As a general rule, alcohol dependence is widely supported by the way of life a person carries.For example, in the minds of many people, an indispensable attribute of vacations and celebrations is alcohol, dinner should not do without a glass of wine, watching a football game without a couple of beer cans.
Even if a person dares to lead a sober life, his own friends and colleagues can knock him down from the road, breaking the use of a glass or two in each joint event.Others can still be treated respectfully by the abandonment of a woman by alcohol.But how not to drink alcohol at all?Often, alcohol is present in business meetings, commemoration and in many other situations, when refusing to drink is not entirely correct.It is better to lie that you are allergic or that you lead to enter into detailed explanations.In addition, to comply with the rules of label, it is sometimes enough to moisten your lips and set aside the glass.
The first weeks and months after alcohol rejection can be found that all areas of life have touched.Therefore, the important steps on the path of liberation of dependence are a change in the usual routine, a ruthless release of the environment that is withdrawn.It is advisable to plan detoxification for the time of vacations and take it away from the usual situation.It is important to enlist the moral support of the home.After all, family members are sincerely interested in the health of the other.When the habit connection with the way of life is eliminated, she has nothing to trust.