The urge to drink is shocking and makes the dependent person absolute alcohol, no life, only intended to fill the blood of anise, cognac, sun or any other alcoholic beverage that is slowly sapping health, destroying the liver, forming hepatic granulomas that are falling apart vital to the speed of light without the patient feel it until symptoms appear and death ensues organs.
The alcoholic is actually mentally ill suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder throwing him into the spirit of an appalling way unable to prevent it at all. Psychiatrists and psychologists play an important role in the treatment of alcoholism. Talking about the problem frees a lot of trouble to drink without stopping, with an urgent need mortal. Words are an escape very important for alcoholics. When the day begins the alcoholic patient is released to a bestial fight against his addiction so to speak, a war against alcohol that lasts twenty four hours a day. Through the door of a bar is a heroic act because the patient has to avoid going to avoid falling into the temptation to take "a wee dram".
The alcoholic is mentally ill and has to be recognized by society. However alcoholics are still called drunk with most disparagingly possible. Alcoholics are stigmatized, they are beings marked by society as vicious that are delivered to spending money in bars. Are social parasites who can not do anything but drink and drink, abandoning all work and abandoning themselves in their physical appearance, his face flushed by alcohol.
The stigma alcoholics is one of the strongest in our society and is one of the most urgent needs to be removed by the large number of `people who are affected. Hundreds, thousands of patients live a parallel life by fear of rejection rather than openly confess their habit, ie his illness. Live hidden in the catacombs which in this case are the bars, clubs where are leaving life organ by organ and spending what they have, ruining their families.
There are numerous organizations designed to remove the stigma of alcoholics. The best known is perhaps Alcoholics Anonymous where patients feel normal people pushed to the improvement of their disease and not its worsening. It each case exposes its complete freedom and other colleagues applaud his courage to face the problem without any restrictions. Is the most important self-help group in the world that has cured millions of people who are counting the days they have lived without alcohol.
There are numerous other self-help groups that serve to add value in patients. To them we owe the recovery of many people without these groups had never beaten the disease. Patients who have been cured help while helping each other, new patients are incorporated into self-help groups. Taking the first step is the most difficult because alcohol must be left entirely at once, without pause, without `periods of adaptation. You have to live without alcohol since the first day of treatment. It is horrible because you have to stop drinking suddenly. At that time the person has already fallen to the lowest, he has been abandoned to itself, has lost his family and a lot of misfortunes more. And suddenly, as if he had never taken a drink, you have to stop drinking glasses, shot glasses as it is popularly known each sip of drunken, or shots that are just nice death when no alcohol.
The cinema has portrayed many times the problem of alcoholism. I come now to mind the great Billy Wilder film "The Lost Weekend" starring Ray Milland. Recounts the descent into hell spirit of a man and all that it can do to get a bottle of rum or any other beverage. It is also too great Blake Edwards film "Days of Wine and Roses" with Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick. Or more recently the film of Luis Mandoki "When a man loves a woman". This is clearly evident that love is the main cure for alcoholism, understanding of the couple, the tenacity to exit accompanied abyss, not alone, loneliness joins the already feels the alcoholic by itself when it reaches the bars bars without asking the famous glass is put it ahead because the habit has become habit, a deadly vice.
But we must differentiate the alcoholic from the person who drinks alcohol in moderation. A beer occasionally, for example. No completely crucify the alcohol if you drink calmly and with absolute control of the amount taken. It is a kind of double stigma: drinking too much alcohol and drinking alcohol without more. The latter does not have to lead to alcoholism. It is to drink to share a meal, a glass of wine for example. The important thing is to control. Dipsomaniacs say "I control", but it is not. The disease is controlling them and do not recognize it until the alcohol starts to come out through the holes that open in the legs due to ulcers that are terribly because of the drink. We must control oneself without lying, without beginning to see the world around a glass of alcohol.
The satisfaction is achieved by overcoming the dipsomanía is tremendous. And you have to stop drinking completely. Do not fall back is the main goal. The first cup after recovery may be the beginning of a new hell. And fall for the second time in this Dantesque hell may be the ultimate for failing to prevent death from multiple organ failure. You have to have an iron will, but you can get. Thousands of people daily and get on with their lives as normal. No need to feel failed by being dipsomaniac. On the contrary dipsomania be faced as a challenge rather than life puts us and we will have the will to achieve self-improvement raising the self-esteem that is so important to overcome alcoholism.
I call from here to all people with drinking problems to self-improvement, self-love, the more than positive self-esteem. There is no room for failure. We must always think about the win. Alcohol can not one. One can with alcohol without losing a point of view that life is much more to get into the bars as shelter a thousand problems. The problems must be solved. Try to solve them with alcohol is to create a new problem that can not be solved, but we must always be optimistic and welcome with open arms all the love they give us the people we really want and really accepted as we are with alcohol or without alcohol.
Jose Cuadrado Morales
Like many people, at the start of the year, I made a resolution to decrease my alcohol intake.
ReplyDeleteDrink Less in Seven Days by Georgia Foster has really helped me stick to this resolution. Georgia is a clinical hypnotherapist and alongside the written version of the book, there are also 4 "Hypnosis Hub" recordings that readers are encouraged to access to help them with the program.
One of the great things about Drink Less in Seven Days is that Georgia (and I"m going to call her Georgia because she kind of feels like a friend) is totally non-judgemental about how much you drink, why you drink, why you feel you drink too much etc. I feel that this is an area where people carry a lot of shame and negative feelings and to have someone who approaches an emotional issue like this with absolute objectivity is helpful in driving the desired behaviours. She's on your side!
There are two main parts to Drink Less in Seven Days. The first is how your amygdala (the part of your brain that deals with emotions and fear/stress responses) can actually work against your efforts to quit or reduce your drinking. It shows you how to move your decision to drink away from this very instinctive part of your brain to your prefrontal cortex which is the part of your brain that is more concerned with considered decision-making.
I found this part of the book fascinating, particularly the parts where she spoke about silencing your inner critic.
However, it was the second part of the book, where Georgia broke down different personality types. what triggers them to drink and how to circumvent these triggers that I found most useful. (Also fascinating, if like me you love a good theory of behaviour and the ability to proclaim "Yes!!!! That's me!"). Because it makes total sense right? If you drink out of social anxiety (which is me a little bit) your methods to success will likely be different to someone who drinks because everyone around you is (also me a little bit).
The biggest take away for me was starting to understand what triggers my wanting to drink and learning alternative strategies should I decide not to. I think a really important thing about Drink Less in Seven Days is that it is NOT about quitting drinking altogether. It is about cutting down to a level that you are comfortable with, whatever that is for you. And this feels more manageable than quitting altogether.
The cru of this type of book though is does it work?
So here's the real deal. I started this program in January. It's now March and I can count the times I have drunk alcohol on one hand. During this time I have been to pubs, bars and restaurants, entertained at home and been entertained at other people's homes so it's not like I have been hiding myself away. I have been around alcohol and people drinking as much as I ever was.
Will I drink again? Almost definitely. For me, this experiment was never about giving up altogether. And I have far too much fun making cocktails for this to give it up completely! However, I feel that moving forward I will be able to drink in a more mindful considered way.
Thank you to Georgia Foster for a thoroughly fascinating book that does exactly what it says on the cover!
Here's a link to The 7 Days To Drink Less Online Alcohol Reduction Program.
John