Are you fighting alcohol?Do you doubt whether you are an alcoholic or not?You are wondering why you are drinking?If you answered in the affirmative to any of these questions, then you took the right path to recovery.Alcohol kills more than 240 people every day.Nevertheless, it is scary 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 first realize yourself sober.Nevertheless, people can really recover from alcoholism, moreover, more often than you think.This is hard, 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 only a departure from the problem, and he can stop at any moment.Meanwhile, this is not so.A one -time drink goes into 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 catch yourself thinking that you are comparing your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Ask the right question.Stop asking yourself whether 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 live as you want.If so, then the first step is taken;
- Stop comparing.Comparisons do not bring any benefit.This is someone else's life.You are a person with a complex, unique fate.
So what if you drink less than Vasya a neighbor who lives on the street, if you have a problem, then you have to deal with it.Comparison of one’s own drunkenness with others will only lead to self -justification.Think about your future "I".Imagine yourself in five years with the same habits to drink.This is what you are striving for?If not, it is time to solve problems with alcohol.The recognition of the problem is the path to recovery.
Understand why you should quit drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely enough to motivate people to quit drinking.We often prefer instant satisfaction.Refusal to drink is no exception.Long -term advantages are only in maintaining health and well -being.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Return the lost time.
Anna is moderately drinking a woman.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks per day.Each time, she “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 about the time that Anna additionally loses, leaving the hangover syndrome.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms character and makes us grow.These advantages disappear when you are drunk.It may seem a terrible acquaintance with new people without drinking, but the damage that causes alcohol is worse.
- A reason to get rich.
With what lightness a person parted with money, buying a drink, he 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 to sleep.
Alcohol is a depressant, which means that he leads to exhaustion.It also violates sleep mode, leading to an imbalance of the whole organism.Throw to drink, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
Refusing alcohol is the healthiest decision that you can make.Normalization of weight, improving liver function, cholesterol, increasing immunity, clear mind, emotional state - these are small advantages of a sober lifestyle.
Make sobriety with the norm
Refusal of alcohol should be the number one priority in your life.Install your own rules and do not break them.Say “no” to yourself, put sobriety on the pedestal and do not remove until you understand that your problem is solved.
Do not listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the word - hold.There should be no obstacles that are able to stop, change the decision.There is no overwhelming task for a person; if desired, the mountains obey human power.
Bring the drinking companions
It’s easier to say what to do, right?Regardless of whether alcohol is the main part of your social life, or is it just what unites you.Difficulties arise where friends, the family drink around you.
- Step one- To say that you cannot be close to drinking for some time.
- Step two- Cut off anyone with whom they drank.This may 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 that a person has.It includes people who help to get out of a vicious environment.
- Step third- Do not become in yourself.Go to people, to carry themselves with interesting ideas.Search an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.He always burns an idea, can and can perform actions that improve the quality of life.
Maybe your sincere desire for a sober life will become infectious for former comrades and you will be able to pull yourself out and lost souls, which will enhance the taste of victory.
Advertise your choice
Do not be afraid to tell people about your problem.This will add responsibility to achieve the goal.Information is able to stop the offer to drink.If without hesitation to any proposal to support the company to answer that you are an alcoholic, then you will stop tempting you, but will not stop inviting you to good companies.
Recognition is not boasting, this is just a reason to understand that you are limited in choosing.Alcohol is too expensive a pleasure for which they pay for life.
Quit drinking
The first 72 hours are the most difficult part of the recovery.As the body gets rid of alcohol, you will experience acute breaking.Alcoholics experience painful pain, and they often need professional help.
Pain, after abandoning alcohol, is evidence that the body is healed.The onset of withdrawal symptoms can begin six hours after the last sip:
- Increasing temperature, pressure, shortness of breathing and rapid pulse.
- Excessive sweating.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threatening lives.
The body is cleared this important step in the process of recovery.At the same time, many recovers fall into 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 the good.It will relieve 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 to the situation.
- Do not be angry with people when they are trying to help.Feel free to ask for help.
- Do not suppress yourself, you went a difficult path.Realize that you are taking the right steps on the path 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 abandon alcohol yourself.You are too deeply bogged down to figure out everything without professional help.There are both 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 find yourself and enjoy life without alcohol.
2 + weeks after the release
Complete detoxification of the body from alcohol can take up to two weeks.
As 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 bother you.Positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
Worst of all, there may be a craving for alcohol, which continues all his 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 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.Watch 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 passing through.Go to war with your dependence.Restoration is a lifelong process to a delightful feeling of freedom.