Are you fighting alcohol?Do you doubt whether it's an alcoholic or not?Are you wondering why you are drinking?If you have affirmatively answered any of these questions, you followed the right way to recovery.Alcohol kills over 240 people every day.However, it is scary to admit that you are dependent and it is difficult to realize that you are an alcoholic.
Care is not the hardest part.The hardest part of the way to sobriety is an attempt to be sober first.However, people can really recover from alcoholism, and more often than you think.This is difficult, but it is possible.
Guide - How to get sober
Recognize the problem
A person who drinks is inclined to think it's healthy, alcohol is just a removal from the problem and can stop at any time.Meanwhile, this is not so.A one -hour drink enters 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 you are comparing your drunkenness with others, try these three things:
- Ask the right question.Stop wondering if you are an alcoholic or not.If you ask this question, you are probably an alcoholic;
- One of them.Instead, ask yourself if drunkenness prevents the living as you want.In this case, 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 unique and complex destination.
And if you drink less than Vasya, a neighbor who lives on the street, if you have a problem, you will have to deal with it.The comparison of its own drunkenness with others will only lead to self -justification.Think of your future "me".Imagine yourself in five years with the same habits to drink.Is that what are you trying for?Otherwise, it's time to solve problems with alcohol.Recognition of the problem is the way for recovery.
Understand why you should stop drinking
Long -term benefits are rarely enough to motivate people to stop drinking.We often prefer instant satisfaction.Refusal to drink is no exception.The long -term advantages are just to maintain health and good -to -be.
Here are 4 short -term advantages:
- Return the lost time.
Anna is drinking a woman moderately.She drinks 3 times a week, 2-3 drinks a day.Each time she “loses” about 3 hours of productive time, drunk.Every year Anna loses a month and a half.This is long lost time that can be productively spent.Do not forget the time Anna loses, leaving the hangover syndrome.
- Find the interlocutor.
The conversation forms the 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 has separated from money by buying a drink, he can easily spend 1000 to 3000 rubles or more a week.After 6 months, the rejection of drunkenness can save more than 70 thousand rubles, and this is the cost of a good ticket.You are ready to pay 12 thousand rubles.per month for health problems?
- Better to sleep.
Alcohol is a depressive, which means it leads to exhaustion.It also violates the mode of suspension, leading to an imbalance of the whole body.Play to drink, this is a guarantee of peace and health.
Refusing alcohol is the healthiest decision you can make.Weight standardization, improving liver function, cholesterol, increased immunity, clear mind, emotional state - these are small advantages of a sober lifestyle.
Make sobriety with the norm
The refusal of alcohol must be the number one priority in your life.Install your own rules and do not break them.Say "no" to yourself, put sobriety in the pedestal and do not remove until you understand that your problem is solved.
Don't listen to anyone, listen to yourself.Give the word - hold.There should be no obstacles capable of stopping, changing the decision.There is no overwhelming task for a person;If desired, the mountains obey human power.
Bring the companions of drink
It's easier to say what to do, right?Regardless of whether alcohol is the main part of your social life or that's exactly what unites it.Difficulties arise where friends, the family drinks around them.
- Step One"Say you can't be close to drinking for a while."
- Step two- Cut anyone with whom they drank.This can be the hardest step in 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.Includes people who help to get out of a cruel environment.
- Step in third- Don't become yourself.Go to people to behave with interesting ideas.Search an alternative to alcohol.Man is not an animal.It always burns an idea, can and can perform actions that improve the quality of life.
Perhaps your sincere desire for a sober life becomes infectious to ex -raw and you can withdraw and lose souls, which will increase the taste of victory.
Announce your choice
Don't be afraid to tell people about your problem.This will add responsibility to reach the goal.Information can stop the offer to drink.If, without hesitation of any proposal to support the company to answer that you are an alcoholic, then you will stop trying it, but will not stop it to good companies.
Recognition is not boasting, this is just a reason to understand that you are limited in choosing.Alcohol is a very expensive pleasure they pay for life.
Stop drinking
The first 72 hours are the hardest part of recovery.As the body gets rid of alcohol, you will experience a sharp break.Alcoholics experience painful pain and usually need professional help.
Pain, after leaving alcohol, is evidence that the body is healed.The onset of withdrawal symptoms may start six hours after the last sip:
- Increased temperature, pressure, lack of breathing and fast wrist.
- Excessive perspiration.
- Tremor.
- Insomnia.
- In extreme cases, cramps, sometimes threatening lives.
The body is clean this important step in the recovery process.At the same time, many recover on relapses, seeking healing in the same alcohol.In this case, you cannot be without professional help.Don't 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 toward the situation.
- Don't get angry with people when they are trying to help.Feel free to ask for help.
- Not suppressed, you followed a difficult way.Note that you are giving the right steps on the way to recovery.
- Be prepared for difficulties, the bad attitude of others, but you took the first step that does not allow you to stop.
Rehabilitation center
Sometimes it is impossible to abandon alcohol.You are deeply jammed to find out everything without professional help.There are 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 release
Complete detoxification of alcohol body 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.
Do not bother him.Positive effects will block all negative emotions.
... and all this jazz
Worst of all, there may be a desire for alcohol, which continues all your 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.But knowledge of the source of these symptoms is the key to the fight against dependence.
Develop and enter new hobbies and habits that exclude the bottle.Watch sports, bring 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 are going through.Go to the war with your dependence.Restoration is a lifelong process for a delicious feeling of freedom.