If it is difficult not to drink for several consecutive days or, when circumstances require it (taking drugs, the need to work), many understand that they have an addiction and start looking for a way to get rid of alcoholism alone.
Psychology of dependence on alcohol
To understand how to stop drinking alcohol yourself, it is necessary to study the nature of the behavior that creates dependence.Any type of dependence has two components, including alcohol.On the one hand, there is a cellular compensation mechanism, when periodic poisoning of bodily alcohol leads to a change in the 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 it satisfies this traction.
On the other hand, the reason for the development of alcohol dependence is the lack of an emotional balance: the feeling of the inner void that a person is feeling, in one way or another, to fill something from the outside.A means of compensation can be a sort of activity that distracts attention or taking consciousness of the substances.
Important!Physiological dependence plays away from the main role in the development of alcohol dependence.
The behavioral dependence (psychological) is that a person is looking for a reason to return to the emotional state that was once caused by alcohol intoxication.Breaking this associative connection between the intake of alcohol and the occurrence of psychological relaxation is very problematic, which causes the main difficulties in an independent struggle against alcoholism.
You can stop drinking alcohol alone
The more difficult it is the stage of alcoholism, the more difficult it is to stop drinking without the help of doctors.If in the first phase, when there is no physiological dependence and abstinence syndrome, it is relatively easy to abandon alcohol, therefore an attempt to face this task without special medicines often often fails.
Important!A strong refusal of alcohol with severe binge is associated with serious physical suffering and fraught with a high risk of health complications until death.In this case, alcohol detoxification is necessary gradually and preferably under the supervision of a doctor.
However, I hope that there is a way out of a vicious circle.This is highlighted by examples of lucky people 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 dependence:
- Genetics.The risk of developing the disease in people whose biological parents have abused alcohol is repeatedly higher than children's children.
Be careful!Despite the fact that in some cases a tendency to alcoholism is due to hereditary factors, no one is condemned to become an alcoholic by 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 has become synonymous with "good rest"."Blag" is still fashionable.Among young boys and girls, the ability to pay huge doses of alcohol is often considered a special sign of adulthood and steep.The first steps to addiction are taken by most people at an early age.First of all, men fall into the risk area, since male alcoholism in society is much more tolerant than the female.
Where to start getting rid of addiction
After making the decision to abandon alcohol independently, first of all, it is necessary to take control of the non -behavior, but to balance emotions.
Training in relaxation methods
The supervisor sometimes for years to drink and breaks with the fact that the main reason for the occurrence of dependence on alcohol 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.Just remove the alcohol, removing the only "crutch" on which the psyche was based when it falls in critical situations is wrong.
Before launching a drink, you have to learn how to relax and pull yourself on drawing without the help of alcohol.To do this, you can try the following techniques:
- Meditation.The easiest way to stop drinking yourself is to introduce meditation in your daily routine.There is nothing complicated in this practice.You just have to retire, make a comfortable pose and close your eyes.Within 15 minutes, you should try not to think about anything, focus only on your breaths and expansions.Meditation helps to stabilize emotional background, to obtain greater control over its thoughts and actions.
- Muscle relaxation techniques.For example, a constant tension and a relaxation of 10-15 seconds of various muscle groups.You can start with the head of the head, finishing with your fingers and vice versa.The regular performance of the exercise help to reduce physical and nervous stress, eliminates attacks of fear and panic.
- Peaceful visualization technique.Universal images of the sea with calm waves are considered, the sky with white clouds flowing slowly.To improve the effect, you can listen to audio files with a recording of nature sounds.
Work with negative emotions
A person who finds a way to feel satisfied and happy most of the time, starts very quickly to feel the loss of interest in alcohol.Of course it has the desire for other things and lessons.Therefore, the need for car -hardcontollo, the application of willpower disappears.
In the fight against addiction, it is important that a person is able to find peace where he is at the moment.Give yourself understanding and sympathy.When the habit of alcohol abuse is declared war, Odiano, they organize a hunt for her, refuses to surrender without fighting.The struggle with its subconscious does not make sense.Psyche programs unconsciously work can only try to bring to the area of awareness and transform gently.
It is necessary to interrupt the connection of the habit of drinking with emotional experiences.The chain "negative event - departure from negative emotions - alcohol intake" chain.Emotional pain, such as body, is the body's signaling system that informs a sort of violation.For example, every random touch to a hot plate would end up with a serious burning if the pulses of pain had not forced him to pull his hand in time.Negative emotions are also not something bad you need to evade.
Negative emotions help quickly determine errors in your thought.Therefore, the derogatory thoughts aimed at other people or themselves are always felt sadness, wine, irritation, anger.They are so unpleasant precisely to let us abandon the messages they called them.
Be careful!Stress is easier to warn than to remove.
Looking for a kinder and more optimistic perspective on life, we experience positive emotions.The need to enter an alcoholic binge or somehow drown your feelings.
Seek adequate motivation
If you get rid of alcohol dependence is felt as a obligation and not a personal desire, the chances of being able to stop using significantly decreasing.For this reason, it is so difficult to reach your loved ones who suffer from alcoholism.
A person has the strength to stop alcohol only when he begins to fully achieve 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, in order to get rid of alcohol dependence independently, you have to find in your present or in the future the same thing for which it is worth being sober and healthy, which is more precious than the joy of shit oblivion.
More information.It will be useful to listen to Allen Carra's audiobook "Simple to stop drinking" or study the work of Claude Schneiter's "Treatment of Alcoholism".
How long the weaning period lasts
In people who have long been abused for a long time, the recovery process occurs quite painfully.In the muscles there is painful pain, migraine, torment of nausea.These symptoms indicate the beginning of the renovation of the body.
The human body is a very flexible tool.If you can keep and not drink alcohol for at least five days, the body will start to actively look for a new way to balance and stop sending the brain impulses on the need for a new dose of alcohol.The desire to drink will decrease.Therefore, in the first week, it is necessary to collect all the willpower in a fist and try not to break.So it will be much easier.
Be careful!It is possible to reduce alcohol craving with recipes of "cable" based on herbs only in the absence of medical contraindications.
As a rule, the fifth day after refusing alcohol, a person begins to feel a constant improvement in well -being.However, the food is still poorly tolerated.Vomiting can occur.Significant changes in physical conditions occur one month after refusing alcohol.Problems with digestion are eliminated, mental processes are restored.
However, this is only the physiological side of the problem.Mental restoration and liberation of behavioral addiction can take much more time.After all, you have to learn to cope with life problems without the help of alcohol.
Be careful!It is necessary to distinguish between abstinence syndrome after binge with psychological symptoms, which can be caught by surprise during the first year after abandoning alcohol.
Many, having ceased to drink alcohol, face serious 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 complete weaning occurs 6-12 months after the last glass of alcohol.
How to organize your time after refusal
As a rule, alcohol dependence is widely supported by the way of life that a person leads.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 a couple of beer cans.
Even if a person dares to lead a sober life, his own friends and colleagues can break him down from the street, breaks through the use of a glass or two to each joint event.Others can still be respectfully treated with the abandonment of a woman from alcohol.But how not to drink alcohol?Often, alcohol is present during work meetings, commemoration and in many other situations, when the refusal to drink is not entirely correct.It is better to lie that you are allergic or you are guiding rather than deepening detailed explanations.In addition, to respect the rules of the label, it is sometimes enough to moisten the lips and put the glass aside.
The first weeks and months after the refusal of alcohol can be discovered that it has touched all areas of life.Therefore, important steps on the path of liberation from addiction are a change in the usual routine, a ruthless liberation from the environment that lowers.It is advisable to plan the detoxification for the holiday time and lead it away from the usual situation.It is important to enlist the moral support of the house.After all, the members of a family are sincerely interested in mutual health.When the connection of the habit is eliminated with the way of life, it has nothing to rely on.