Do you fight alcohol?Do you doubt you are alcoholic or not?Wondering why you drink?If you answered one of these questions in the affirmative, you have taken the right track towards the recovery.Alcohol kills more than 240 people a day.Nevertheless, it is frightening 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 path to sobriety is an attempt to make you sober.However, people can really recover from alcoholism, moreover, more often than you think.It's difficult, but it's possible.
Guide - How to stay sober
Recognize the problem
A drinking person is inclined to think that he is healthy, alcohol is only a start of the problem and he can stop at any time.Meanwhile, this is not the case.A drink at a time goes in a habit, then becomes an irresistible dependence.As indicated in the old adage, "the first step is to admit that you have a problem."
If you surprise yourself thinking that you compare your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Ask the right question.Stop wondering if you are an alcoholic or not.If you ask yourself this question, you are probably alcoholic;
- One of them.Instead, ask yourself if drunkenness prevents life as you wish.If so, the first step is taken;
- Stop comparing.Comparisons provide no advantage.It is someone else's life.You are a person with a complex and unique spell.
And if you drink less than Vasya a neighbor who lives in the street, if you have a problem, then you have to face it.The comparison of her own drunkenness with others will only be self-justification.Think of your future "I".Imagine yourself in five years with the same drinking habits.Is that what you are looking for?Otherwise, it's time to solve alcohol problems.Recognition of the problem is the path of recovery.
Understand why you should stop drinking
Long -term advantages are rarely enough to motivate people to stop drinking.We often prefer instant satisfaction.The refusal to drink is no exception.Long-term advantages only concern health and well-being.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Return lost time.
Anna drinks a woman moderately.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 glasses per day.Each time, it "loses" about 3 hours of producer time, drunk.Anna lost a month and a half every year.It is a lot of lost time that could have been spent in a productive way.Do not forget the time that Anna also waste, leaving the syndrome of the wooden mouth.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms of character and makes us grow.These advantages disappear when you are drunk.This may seem a terrible knowledge of new people without drinking, but the damage that causes alcohol is worse.
- A reason to become rich.
With what lightness has a person separated from money, buying a drink, it can easily spend 1000 to 3000 rubles or more per week.After 6 months, the rejection of intoxication can save more than 70,000 rubles, and this is the cost of a good ticket.Are you ready to pay 12,000 rubles.per month for health problems?
- Better to sleep.
Alcohol is a depressant, which means that it leads to exhaustion.He also violates the sleep mode, leading to an imbalance of the entire organism.Throwing drinking is a guarantee of peace and health.
Refusing alcohol is the healthiest decision you can take.Standardization of weight, improving liver function, cholesterol, increase in immunity, clear spirit, emotional state - these are small advantages of a sober lifestyle.
Make sobriety with the standard
The refusal of alcohol should be the number one priority in your life.Install your own rules and don't break them.Say "no" to yourself, put sobriety on the pedestal and do not remove before understanding that your problem is solved.
Listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the word - hold.There should be no obstacle that can stop, modify the decision.There is no overwhelming task for a person;If you wish, the mountains obey human power.
Bring consumption companions
It is easier to say what to do, right?Whether alcohol is the main part of your social life, or is that what unites you.Difficulties arise where friends, family drink around you.
- First step- To say that you cannot be about to drink for a while.
- Second step- Cut anyone with whom they drank.This can be the most difficult step when choosing an alcohol -free life.The main thing is to remember that real friends will understand and support.The presence of a strong social circle is the best of a person.He includes people who help get out of a vicious environment.
- Third step- Do not become in yourself.Go to people, to get used to interesting ideas.Look for an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.It always burns an idea, can and can perform actions that improve quality of life.
Perhaps your sincere desire for a sober life will become contagious for the old comrades and you can withdraw and lose souls, which will improve the taste for victory.
Advertise your choice
Don't be afraid to talk to people about your problem.This will add responsibility to reach the goal.Information can stop drinking.If without hesitation in any proposal to support the company to respond to what you are an alcoholic, then you will stop trying, but will not cease to invite you to good companies.
Recognition does not boast, it is just a reason to understand that you are limited in the choice.Alcohol is too expensive for which they pay for life.
Stop drinking
The first 72 hours are the most difficult part of the recovery.As the body gets rid of alcohol, you will feel an acute rupture.Alcoholics experience painful pain and often need professional help.
The pain, after abandoning alcohol, is proof that the body is healed.The start of withdrawal symptoms can start six hours after the last sip:
- Increase in temperature, pressure, respiratory exertion and rapid impulse.
- Excessive sweating.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threatening lives.
The body is eliminated this important step in the recovery process.At the same time, many are recovered in relapse, looking for healing in the same alcohol.In this case, you cannot do without professional help.Do not be afraid of her, medical care for good.It will relieve the pain and the recovery process will be much easier.
Change your attitude
- Even after admitting that you have a problem, you need to change your attitude in the situation.
- Don't be angry with people when they try to help.Do not hesitate to ask for help.
- Do not delete yourself, you have followed a difficult path.Know that you take the right measures on the path of recovery.
- Be ready for difficulties, the bad attitude of others, but you have taken 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 both fixed and ambulatory rehabilitation programs that offer the necessary assistance.
The choice allows you to find the necessary program where you can stop and modify your image.The main thing is to meet you and enjoy life -free life.
2 + weeks after the release
Complete detoxification of the alcohol body can take up to two weeks.
As the person is released, a person has symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- A feeling of aggression, of hostility.
- Weakening of sexual attraction.
- Nocturnal nightmares.
Let it don't mind.The positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
Worse still, there can be a desire for alcohol, which continues all your life.Even after the elimination of all traces of body alcohol, the brain will always want to return to the balance of chemicals to which it is used.But knowledge of the source of these symptoms is the key to the fight against dependence.
Develop and introduce 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 going through.Go to war with your dependence.Restoration is a permanent process of a delicious feeling of freedom.