Stages in the alcoholic

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Children who raise the families in which someone is abusing alcoholic beverages, live with a sense of danger, suffering and learn specific ways of proceeding, which hinder their lives. They are often victims of mental and physical, and sometimes become the victims of sexual abuse. Many of the children is trying to maintain the confidentiality of drinking parents, ashamed, have a sense that they are worse, but try to protect the good name of the family, fear and emotional disturbances are associated with fear.

Stages in the alcoholic

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Saturday, 01 August 2009
1. Suffering (discomfort) and unsuccessful attempts to deal with him. These states, saying in a very simplified, resulting in some people with lack of "life in accordance" with himself or with the environment, the other with an excessive need for stimulation (stimulation); 2. Glare (discovery) - a statement and the recognition that alcohol contributes positively to the well-being and may help in coping with psychological discomfort. 3. Avoiding pain (discomfort) - to try to deal with unacceptable conditions and using alcohol and then use alcohol to regulate their own well-being. With alcohol you can get relief for the suffering, reduction or palliation (attenuation) tension, distress, anxiety, low sense of values, a sense of guilt, sadness, or called. "existence of pain, and achieving it through the momentary pleasure and satisfaction, or what you want to boost (the" abuse "). 4. The loss (already are clear signs of addiction) - the systematic regulation of its being with spirit, when it became increasingly a source of momentary well-being and gradually begins to displace existing sources of pleasure. As the addiction gradually increasing confusion of life, but the alcoholic does not seem to see. The proper assessment of the situation makes it difficult, and often it prevents the system denied (hypocrisy), employing a psychological defense mechanisms. Dipsomaniac gradually adapts to your condition (learns to manipulate people so that others do for him because of what they do not drink; reorganize their lives in order to be able to drink as little as possible and bear the consequences of drinking, is changing its way of life and behavior, values and beliefs, chooses not to drink with conflicting activities, the company changes, etc.). At the end of drinking is becoming the most important thing in his life, and the alcoholic loses the ability of rational planning, operation and troubleshooting. 5. Indecision and seek help. Increasing confusion of life causes the alcoholic to allow yourself think that the way in which the drink is different from the way other people drink. An additional reason is still the fact that the drink has to deliver relief to stop suffering. This in turn forces you to take their own drinking and attempts to restrict mind the need to seek help. Prior to using assisted alcoholic trying to cope with their illness, however, with "strong will" and take further steps aimed at mastering the situation. Most of the changes in the pace of starts drinking (the amount of alcohol drink remains unchanged, but is trying to drink more slowly), then tries to limit the amount of alcohol (for example, sets the limits and sometimes fails to meet them), tries to limit the frequency of drinking (eg. is planning five more breaks, sometimes it fails to do and is proud of that), changes the type of alcohol (such as drinking beer instead of vodka). All the time looking for ways to quickly get rid of symptoms (for example, starts "helping" the medication). Over time he goes to get longer breaks for drinking, but a return to alcohol is inevitable, because while it makes no significant changes in their lives. This period ends, or the decision to make use of the help and taking the treatment and / or to recovery program (for example, the twelve step program of Alcoholics Anonymous) or returned further problems and complications which lead to "falling" from a normal life or to death.
Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 August 2009 )

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