Do not hope only for willpower.
If you have asked this question, then it's really clear.Maybe you use not strong drinks, but every day.Maybe you are breaks, but the degrees are becoming higher.
However, the decision to tie with alcohol is a right step.But the first.The following can be more difficult.
Because stopping drinking is a difficult task
The popular excuse, with which people allow themselves not to abandon a glass or a bottle, seems like this: "I can stop at any time, as soon as I want!"But this is a car -assessment.The problem is that alcoholism often cannot be defeated by the power of the will.
From the point of view of doctors, drunkenness is something like a complex food disorder, whose causes are often found in a genetic predisposition.Therefore, alcoholism and bulimia have been established are associated with the same genes.And this means that both situations refer not only to behavioral psychophysiological disorders, but also to psycho-physiological disorders.
In fact, alcoholism is a failure in the brain.Dangerous, because alcohol is integrated into chemical bonds within gray material.As a result, the brain is planted on regular alcohol doses, from which it is not so easy to remove.
How to stop drinking
Given the complexity of the situation, it is advisable to use in different ways.Choose and combine them according to personal needs.
1. Talk to the doctor
You can start with the therapist (if necessary, he will advise you to the next specialist: a narcologist).The doctor will discover how serious your problem is.
As a rule, in order to diagnose problems with alcohol, it is sufficient to obtain affirmative answers to three questions:
- Do you feel regularly needing to drink?
- You can't check how much you drink and "literally 50 grams!"Develop easily in a glass for a glass?
- Are you annoyed and/or you feel bad physically if you don't get alcohol when you want it?
In addition, the doctor will help you determine the objectives.They can be different.Maybe you just want to drink less.Or maybe you are anxious to completely bind with alcohol.Depending on this, as well as your physical condition, the therapist will offer you an individual treatment plan.
2. Pause
Perhaps you are the lucky one who can really get rid of the all -time lust, simply saying to yourself: "Here, I don't drink from today."Check.
It is recommended to start with a break for 28 days.O 90 or 365. If you can touch alcohol during this period, then you have the situation under control.
This break is sufficient to form a stable habit.And even if from time to time you give yourself a glass or two, it will still be a good step on the path to recovery.Just don't forget to repeat the breaks.
Mobile applications can help you.They trace how long you have lasted without a bad habit, encourage, report those problems with the health you have managed to avoid, give simple domestic recipes to facilitate the condition and are divided by the motivating quotes of the great.
3. Prepare for cancellation syndrome
The meaning of these breaks is to give time to the body to slowly restore the non -alcoholic metabolism.
If we are talking about serious cases, the breaks can be painful.The cancellation syndrome thus called often includes:
- Tremor (trembling) in the limbs.
- Hallucinations.
- Convulsions and headache.
If it is about you, the best option would be to take a break in a specialized hospital.Or at least ask the doctor to prescribe drugs and procedures that could reduce unpleasant sensations.
4. Use psychological techniques
In difficult cases, psychotherapy may be required.A psychotherapist will help to clearly see the goal you have set, to achieve the advantages of refusing alcohol and also to cope with possible anxiety, irritability and depression.
Since drunkenness also affects your loved ones, you can go to a reception to a psychotherapist together with a significant person for you.This will contribute to establishing a relationship and will also give you the feeling of not being alone.
You shouldn't spend money on the coding so called.
Methods based on suggestions do not have the slightest scientific justification.And in some cases, they can even increase alcohol craving.In this regard, in 2015, coding as a method for the treatment of alcohol dependence was prohibited in Moscow Narcological Clinics.
5. Join group therapy
The "Club of anonymous alcoholics" seems only fun.In fact, these meetings are extremely important for those who are fighting with the dependence on alcohol.There you can find understanding, support and examples of success.
Just insert the "anonymous alcoholics" phrase and the name of your settlement in the search bar and you will discover the place and time of the closer of the nearest group.
Well, or look for a suitable group in an open directory of anonymous alcoholics.
6. Prepare to take special medicines
There are no drugs that can treat alcohol disorders.But there are drugs that can make alcohol less pleasant.
For example, disulfits.Due to extremely cowardly sensations - nausea, vomiting, general malaise - every time the glass is reversed.O acupron of football: under certain conditions, it significantly reduces the craving for drinking.O naltrexon: block the production of endorphins when drinking alcohol.
These funds are produced both in the form of tablets and in the form of injections.
But it should be borne in mind that the drugs will only be effective when changing the lifestyle.In addition, they often have rather serious side effects.Therefore, only a doctor can prescribe them.
7. Be patient and persistent
Stop drinking, or at least make sure you have a lot of alcohol under your control.Be ready for this.And don't be discouraged if you break at some point.The failures are only the phases of the process to get rid of a pernicious habit.
According to experts, five years after the start of the struggle, only one in seven person has problems with alcohol.So the treatment works.From the only time.