Are you fighting alcohol?I doubt you are an alcoholic or not?Are you wondering why are you drinking?If you answered one of these questions in an affirmative, you took the right way to recover.Alcohol kills more than 240 people every day.However, it is frightening to admit that you are an employee and it is difficult to realize that you are an alcoholic.
Care is not the most difficult part.The most difficult part of the path to sobriety is an attempt to make you before.However, people can really recover from alcoholism more often than you think.This is difficult, but it is possible.
Guide - How to stay sober
Recognize the problem
A person who drinks is inclined to think it is healthy, alcohol is only a start from the problem and can stop at any time.In the meantime, that's not the case.A drink at the same time goes in habit and then becomes an irresistible addiction.As stated in the old saying: "The first step is to admit that he has a problem".
If you surprise yourself to think of 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 prevents life as you want.In this case, the first step is taken;
- Stop comparing.The comparisons do not benefit.This is someone else's life.You are a person with a complex and unique destiny.
And if you drink less than Vasya a neighbor who lives on the street, if you have a problem, then you have to face it.The comparison between one's own drunkenness with others will only lead to the car -justification.Think about your future "I".Imagine yourself in five years with the same habits to drink.Is this what you are looking for?Otherwise, it is time to solve problems with alcohol.The recognition of the problem is the path to recovery.
Understand why you should stop drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely sufficient to motivate people to stop drinking.We often prefer immediate satisfaction.The refusal to drink is no exception.The long -term advantages are only in maintaining health and well -being.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Return the lost time.
Anna is moving a woman moderately.He drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks per day.Each time, he "loses" about 3 hours of productive time, being drunk.Every year, Anna loses a month and a half.This is a lot of lost time that could be spent productively.Do not forget the time that Anna also loses, leaving the cantilever syndrome.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms character and makes us grow.These advantages disappear when you are drunk.It may seem a terrible knowledge with new people without drinking, but the damage that causes alcohol is worse.
- A reason to become rich.
With what lightness a person separated from money, by purchasing a drink, can easily spend 1000-3000 rubles or more per week.After 6 months, the refusal of drunkenness can save more than 70 thousand rubles, and this is the cost of a good ticket.You are ready to pay 12 thousand rubles.per month for health problems?
- Better to sleep.
Alcohol is a depth, which means that it leads to exhaustion.The mode of sleep is also violated, leading to an imbalance of the entire body.Drinking, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
Refusing alcohol is the healthiest decision you can make.Normalization of weight, improvement of liver function, cholesterol, increase in immunity, clear mind, emotional state: these are small advantages of a sober lifestyle.
Do the sobriety with the norm
The rejection of alcohol should be the number one priority in your life.Install your rules and don't break them.To '"no" to yourself, put the sobriety on the pedestal and do not remove until you understand that your problem is solved.
Don't listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the word - hold down.There should be no obstacles that can stop, change the decision.There is no overwhelming task for a person;If desired, the mountains obey human power.
Bring your companions to drink
It is easier to say what to do, right?Regardless of the fact that alcohol is the main part of your social life or it is precisely what unites you.They become difficulties where friends, the family drinks around you.
- Passage one- To say that you cannot be close to drinking for some time.
- Passage two- Cut anyone who drunk.This could be the most difficult step when choosing a life without alcohol.The main thing is to remember that true friends will understand and support.The presence of a strong social circle is the best one has.Includes people who help to get out of a vicious environment.
- Third step- Don't become in yourself.Go to people, to take with interesting ideas.Search for an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.It always burns an idea, can and can perform actions that improve the quality of life.
Perhaps your sincere desire for a sober life will become contagious for the former companions and you will be able to pull you out and lose souls, which will improve the taste of victory.
Advertise your choice
Don't be afraid to tell the people of your problem.This will add responsibility to achieve the goal.The information is able to stop the offer of drinking.If without hesitation to any proposal to support the company to respond that you are an alcoholic, then you will stop trying you, but you will not stop inviting you to good companies.
The recognition does not boast, this is only a reason to understand that you are limited in the choice.Alcohol is too expensive a pleasure 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, you will experience an acute break.Alcoholics undergo painful pain and often need professional help.
The pain, after abandoning alcohol, is proof that the body has healed.The beginning of the abstinence symptoms can start six hours after the last sip:
- Increase the temperature, pressure, lack of breathing and rapid pulse.
- Excessive sweating.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threatening life.
The body is eliminated this important step in the recovery process.At the same time, many recoveries fall in relapse, looking for healing in the same alcohol.In this case, you cannot do without professional help.Don't be afraid of her, medical care for the good.It will relieve pain and the recovery process will be much simpler.
Change your attitude
- Even after admitting you have a problem, you have to change your attitude towards the situation.
- Don't be angry with people when they are trying to help.Feel free to ask for help.
- Don't suppress yourself, you took a difficult road.Realize that you are taking the right steps on the path to recovery.
- Prepared for difficulty, the scarce attitude of others, but you took the first step that does not allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation Center
Sometimes it is impossible to abandon alcohol yourself.You are too deeply bogged down to understand 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 in which you can stop and change the image.The main thing is to find you and enjoy your life without alcohol.
2 + weeks after release
Complex detoxification of the body from alcohol can take up to two weeks.
When the person is released, a person experiences symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- A sense of aggression, hostility.
- Weakening of sexual attraction.
- Night nightmares.
Let it not disturb you.The positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
Worse still, there could be a craving for alcohol, which continues throughout life.Even after the removal of all traces of alcohol from the body, the brain will still want to return to the balance of the chemicals to which it is used to.But the knowledge of the source of these symptoms is the key to the fight against addiction.
Develop and introduce new hobbies and habits that exclude the bottle.Look at the sport, lead a healthy lifestyle, look for interesting and enthusiastic people who will not allow you to give up.
It is always useful to have support for friends who understand what you are going through.Go to war with your addiction.Restoration is a process for life for a delicious feeling of freedom.