Do you fight alcohol?Do you doubt whether you are an alcoholic or not?Wondering why you drink?If you have answered the confirmation on any of these questions, then you attended the right path to recovery.Alcohol kills more than 240 people every day.Still, it is frightening to admit that you depend, and it is difficult to realize that you are an alcoholic.
The concern is not the hardest part.The hardest part of the way to sobriety is an attempt to understand first in the so-calledStill, people can really recover from alcoholism, moreover, more often than you think.This is difficult, but it is possible.
Guide - How to Stay Sober
Recognize the problem
The drink person is inclined to think that it is healthy, alcohol is just leaving the problem, and can stop at all times.Meanwhile, this is not like that.One time drinking goes to a habit, then it becomes irresistible addiction.As stated in the old saying: "The first step is to admit that you have a problem."
If you catch yourself thinking you compare your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Set the right question.Stop setting up whether you're an alcoholic or not.If you ask yourself this question, you are probably an alcoholic;
- One of them.Instead, ask yourself if the drunkenness prevents live as you want.If this is the case, then the first step is taken;
- Stop in comparison.Comparison do not benefit any benefit.This is someone else's life.You are a person with a complex, unique destiny.
So what if you drink less than Vasy, a neighbor living on the street, if you have a problem, then you have to deal with it.Comparing your own drunkenness with others will lead only to single.Think about your future "I".Imagine yourself in five years with the same drinking habits.Is that why you try?If not, it's time to solve alcohol problems.Problem recognition 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 currently pleasure.Refusing beverages is not an exception.Long-term benefits are only in maintaining health and well-being.
Here are 4 Benefits of the Shortyster:
- Return lost time.
Anna is a moderately drinking woman.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks a day.Every time, she "loses" about 3 hours of productive time, drunk.Each year Anna loses the moon and a half.This is a lot of lost time that could be implemented productively.Don't forget about the time when Ana gets lost extra, leaving the hanging syndrome.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms a character and makes us grow.These benefits disappear when you are drunk.It can seem terrible acquaintance with new people without drinking, but the damage causing alcohol is worse.
- Reason to get rich.
With what the ease of a person is divorced with money, buying a drink, can easily spend 1000-3000 rubles or more per week.After 6 months, refusing drunkenness can save more than 70 thousand rubles, and this is the cost of a good card.Are you willing to pay 12 thousand rubles.Monthly for health problems?
- Better to sleep.
Alcohol is depressed, which means leading to exhaustion.He also violates the way of sleep, leading to the imbalance of the entire organism.Throw on a drink, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
The rejection of alcohol is the healthiest is a decision that you can do.Normalization Weight, improving liver function, cholesterol, increasing immunity, clear mind, emotional state - these are the small benefits of the sobbed lifestyle.
Make sobriety with norms
Reject alcohol should be a number one priority in your life.Install your own rules and do not break them.Say "No" to yourself, put the sobriety on the pedestal and don't remove until you realize that your problem is resolved.
Don't listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the word - hold.There should be no obstacle that they are able to stop, change the decision.There is no irresistible task for a person;If desired, the mountains adhere to human power.
Bring Drink Trackings
It's easier to say what to do, isn't it?Whether alcohol is the main part of your social life, or it is just what combines you.Difficulties arise where friends, family drinks around you.
- To list one- Let me say you can't be close to drinking for a while.
- Second step- Stop anyone they drank with.This can be the hardest step when choosing life without alcohol.The main thing is to remember that real friends will understand and support.The presence of a strong social circle is the best that a person has.Includes people who help out in the release of a malicious environment.
- Third step- Don't become in yourself.Go to people, to deal with interesting ideas.Search an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.Always burning an idea, it can and can make actions that improve the quality of life.
Perhaps your sincere desire for sober life will become contagious for former comrades and you will be able to get out and lose your souls, which will improve the taste of victory.
Advertise your choice
Don't be afraid to tell people about your problem.This will add responsibility to achieve a goal.The information is able to stop a drink offer.If without hesitation to any proposal to support the company to answer that you are an alcoholic, then you will stop tempting you, but we will not stop inviting good companies.
Recognition cannot boast, this is just a reason to understand that you are limited in choosing.Alcohol is unwilling pleasure for which they pay for life.
Stop drinking
The first 72 hours are the hardest part of the recovery.While the body is resolved by alcohol, you will experience acutely breaking.Alcoholics are experiencing painful pain and often need professional help.
Pain, after leaving alcohol, is proof that the body is healed.Attacking withdrawal symptoms can begin six hours after the last sip:
- Rising temperature, pressure, shortness of breathing and fast pulse.
- Excessive sweating.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threatening lives.
The body cleaned this important step in the recovery process.At the same time, many recover in relapse, seeking healing in the same alcohol.In this case you cannot without professional help.Don't be afraid of her, medical care for good.It will release pain, and the recovery process will be much easier.
Change your attitude
- Even after you admit that you have a problem, you need to change your attitude towards the situation.
- Don't get mad at people when they try to help.Feel free to request help.
- Don't suppress yourself, you went a hard road.Understand that you are shooting the right steps on your way to recovery.
- Be prepared for difficulty, bad attitude of others, but you took the first step that doesn't allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation center
Sometimes it is impossible to leave alcohol.You pasted too deeply to understand everything without professional help.There are also stationary and ambulatory 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 yourself and enjoy life without alcohol.
2 + weeks after release
Complete detoxification of alcohol bodies can take up to two weeks.
As a person is released, the person is experiencing symptoms:
- Anxiety and depression.
- A feeling of aggression, hostility.
- Weakening sexual attractions.
- Night nightmares.
May not mind.Positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
The worst of all, there may be a craving for alcohol, which continues all his life.Even after removing all the alcohol traces from the body, the brain will still want to return to the balance of chemicals to which it is used.But the knowledge of the source of these symptoms is the key to the fight against addiction.
Develop and introduce new hobbies and habits excluding the bottle.Watch sports, make 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 go.Go to war with your dependence.Restoration is a lifelong process to the overflow of the feeling of freedom.