Are you fighting alcohol?Do you doubt whether you are an alcoholic or not?Do you wonder why you are drinking?If he answered affirmative to any of these questions, then he took the right path to recovery.Alcohol kills more than 240 people every day.However, it is afraid to admit that you are dependent, and it is difficult to realize that you are an alcoholic.
Care is not the most difficult part.The most difficult part of the road to sobriety is an attempt to realize first.However, people can really recover from alcoholism, in addition, more often than you think.This is difficult, but it is possible.
Guide - How to stay sober
Recognize the problem
A drinking person is inclined to think that he is healthy, alcohol is just a deviation from the problem and can stop at any time.Meanwhile, this is not so.A unique drink enters a habit, and then becomes an irresistible dependence.As stated in the old saying, "the first step is to admit that you have a problem."
If you get caught thinking that you are comparing your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Ask the right question.Stop asking you if you are an alcoholic or not.If you ask yourself this question, you are probably an alcoholic;
- One of them.Instead, ask yourself if drunkenness avoids live as you want.If so, then the first step is taken;
- Stop comparing.Comparisons do not bring any benefit.This is the life of another person.You are a person with a complex and unique destination.
So what happens if you drink less than Vasya a neighbor who lives in the street?If you have a problem, then you have to deal with that.The comparison of the drunkenness with others will only lead to the car -justification.Think about your future "I".Imagine in five years with the same habits to drink.Is this what you are fighting for?If not, it is time to solve problems with alcohol.Recognition of the problem is the way to recovery.
Understand why you should stop drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely enough to motivate people to stop drinking.We often prefer instant satisfaction.The refusal to drink is no exception.Long -term advantages are only to maintain health and good.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Returns the lost time.
Anna is moderately drinking a woman.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks per day.Every time, she "loses" approximately 3 hours of productive, drunk time.Every year, Anna loses a month and a half.This is a long time that could happen productively.Do not forget the moment when Anna also loses, leaving the hangover.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms character and makes us grow.These advantages disappear when you are drunk.It may seem terrible knowledge with new people without drinking, but the damage that causes alcohol is worse.
- A reason to enrich yourself.
With the lightness that a person separated from money, buying a drink, can easily spend 1000-3000 rubles or more per week.After 6 months, the rejection of drunkenness can save more than 70 thousand rubles, and this is the cost of a good ticket.Are you ready to pay 12 thousand rubles?per month for health problems?
- Better sleep.
Alcohol is a depressive, which means that it leads to exhaustion.It also violates the suspension mode, which leads to an imbalance of the entire organism.Lanza to drink, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
Memory of Alcoolo is the healthiest decision you can take.Standardization of weight, improvement of liver function, cholesterol, increased immunity, clear mind, emotional state: these are small advantages of a sober lifestyle.
Make sobriety with the norm
Alcohol rejection must be the number one priority in your life.Install your own rules and do not break them.Say "no" for yourself, put sobriety on the pedestal and not eliminate it until you understand that your problem is solved.
Do not listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the word - keep.There should be no obstacles that can stop, change the decision.There is no overwhelming task for a person;If you wish, the mountains obey human power.
BRING TO DRINK
It's easier to say what to do, right?Regardless of whether alcohol is the main part of his social life, or it is just what unites him.Difficulties arise where friends, the family drinks around them.
- Step one- Say that you can't be close to drink for some time.
- Step two- Cut anyone with whom they drank.This may be the most difficult step when choosing a lifeless life.The main thing is to remember that true friends will understand and support.The presence of a strong social circle is the best person.It includes people who help out of a vicious environment.
- Third step- Don't become yourself.Go to people, to get with interesting ideas.Look for an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.Whenever burns an idea, you can and can perform actions that improve the quality of life.
Perhaps his sincere desire for a sober life becomes contagious for the ancient comrades and can get lost and lost souls, which will improve the taste of victory.
Announce your choice
Do not be afraid to tell people about your problem.This will add responsibility to achieve the objective.Information can stop the offer to drink.If without hesitation to any proposal to support the company to answer that you are an alcoholic, then stop tempting it, but you will not stop inviting it to good companies.
Recognition is not to boast, this is just a reason to understand that it is limited to choosing.Alcohol is a pleasure too expensive for which they pay for life.
Stop drinking
The first 72 hours are the most difficult part of recovery.As the body gets rid of alcohol, it will experience an acute break.Alcoholics experience painful pain, and often need professional help.
The pain, after abandoning alcohol, is evidence that the body is cured.The beginning of abstinence symptoms can begin six hours after the last sip:
- Increase in temperature, pressure, lack of breathing and rapid pulse.
- Excessive sweating.
- Shaking.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threatening lives.
The body is eliminated this important step in the recovery process.At the same time, many recoveries fall into relapse, looking for healing in the same alcohol.In this case, you cannot do without professional aid.Do not be afraid, medical attention for good.It will relieve pain, and the recovery process will be much easier.
Change your attitude
- Even after admitting that he has a problem, he must change his attitude towards the situation.
- Don't be angry with people when they try to help.Do not hesitate to ask for help.
- Don't suppress yourself, you had a difficult path.Keep in mind that you are taking the right steps on the road to recovery.
- Be prepared for difficulties, the poor attitude of others, but you have taken the first step that does not allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation Center
Sometimes it is impossible to leave alcohol yourself.You are too deeply stuck to discover everything without professional help.There are stationary and outpatient rehabilitation programs that offer the necessary assistance.
The choice allows you to find the necessary program where you can stop and change your image.The main thing is to meet and enjoy life without alcohol.
2 + weeks after launch
The complete detoxification of the body of alcohol can take up to two weeks.
As the person is released, a person experiences symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- A feeling of aggression, hostility.
- Weakening of sexual attraction.
- Night nightmares.
Let not bother you.The positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... And all this jazz
Worst of all, there can be a craving for alcohol, which continues its entire life.Even after the elimination of all the traces of alcohol of the body, the brain will still want to return to the balance of the chemicals to which it is accustomed.But the knowledge of the source of these symptoms is the key to the fight against agency.
Develop and enter new hobbies and habits that exclude the bottle.Look at sports, lead a healthy lifestyle, look for interesting and enthusiastic people who will not let you give up.
It is always useful to have support for friends who understand what you are happening.Go to war with your dependence.Restoration is a life process for a delicious feeling of freedom.