Alcohol addicts often lack a correct understanding of their current situation. So I think it is very necessary to understand my situation, my thirst for alcohol and how serious my deformity is. First of all, you should honestly admit that you are an alcoholic, an alcoholic and an alcohol addict. It is possible to prescribe the right medicine only if the positioning is accurate. Sincerely admit that there is nothing you can do about alcohol, and your life has become a mess because of alcohol. Understand the inevitable causal relationship between staying awake and getting a healthy life. This is the first step towards abstinence. Is an important prerequisite, without this understanding, other is out of the question. This is a most basic and extremely important attitude problem, and attitude determines everything here.

how can I tell if I am really an alcoholic?

only you can judge this problem. Many people who have joined the AA have heard that he is not an alcoholic. If you want to stop drinking, you just need more perseverance, a change of environment, more rest, or more hobbies. But these people finally joined the mutual abstinence association, because deep down, they felt that they had been conquered by alcohol and were prepared to get rid of their irresistible desire to drink at any cost.

There is a saying circulating in the Mutual Abstinence Association: It is impossible to be a little addicted to alcohol. A person is either an alcoholic or not. Only the drinker knows if he has reached the point where drinking is out of control.

Test yourself for alcohol dependence

If you really want to give up drinking but find that you can't give it up completely; Or, if you can't control the quantity when drinking, you are always drunk; Or, you don't like the taste of alcohol, and you drink too much to pursue the feeling of intoxication and drift brought by alcohol. Then you may have alcohol dependence.

alcohol dependence is not necessarily drinking every day.

a mild dependence:

1) the cumulative amount of liquor consumed in one day <: 25ml or less than 4 bottles of beer.

2) The official drinking history is within 4 years, and the aggravating history is within 1 year.

3) The daily drinking frequency is increasing, and the alcohol consumption is increasing.

4) Emotional excitement, irritability, out-of-control behavior, fighting, picking fights, throwing things, etc. after drinking.

5) The tolerance for alcohol is enhanced.

9) Sometimes you don't have to drink at ordinary times, but once you drink, you can drink in large doses for several days until your body can't stand it, and then drink again at intervals of half a month, one month or more.

Second-degree moderate dependence:

1) The cumulative drinking amount per day is 25ml <; Liquor < 5ml. Or 4-8 bottles of large beer.

2) The history of formal drinking is between 4 and 8 years, and the history of aggravation is between 1 and 2 years.

3) Drinking is out of control, and the number of drinking alone increases.

4) Drinking every day has become the most important thing in life.

5) Stealing and hiding wine.

6) Once you don't drink, you will feel unwell, flustered, sweaty, restless and other symptoms, and the symptoms will be relieved after drinking.

7) You are thin and have gastrointestinal discomfort.

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9) I have the desire to give up drinking, but I can't give it up.

1) Sometimes you don't have to drink at ordinary times, but once you drink, you can drink in large doses for several days until your body can't stand it, and then drink again at intervals of half a month, one month or more.

triple dependence:

1) cumulative amount of liquor consumed in one day >: 5ml. or more than 8 bottles of lager.

2) The official drinking history is more than 8 years, and it is more than 2 years.

3) Get up every morning and drink on an empty stomach.

4) You must drink every day, you will get drunk after drinking, and you will be weak if you don't eat after drinking.

5) You will have sweaty hands and insomnia. Walking in an oblique line or an S-shape.

6) Forced abstinence is ineffective or hospitalized for many times due to physical reasons caused by drinking.

7) Complications such as gastrorrhagia, hypertension, cerebellar atrophy, fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis's disease, liver cirrhosis and femoral head necrosis have occurred due to drinking.

8) Suspicious personality changes, temper changes, no sense of responsibility for family, and no responsibility for family (wife and children). .

1) Memory loss, tinnitus, hypertension.

11) Mental disorders such as hallucination, auditory hallucination, hallucination, etc.

12) Sometimes you can not drink at ordinary times, but once you drink, you can drink in large doses for several days until your body can't stand it, and then drink again at intervals of half a month, one month or more.

13) Because of long-term heavy drinking, mental disorders such as depression, anxiety and mania have appeared.

14) Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is obvious: once you don't drink alcohol, you will have symptoms such as vomiting, convulsions, tremors (hands, face and tongue), delirium, epilepsy, etc., which will be relieved after drinking alcohol.

We think we are addicted to alcohol, and we are determined to give up drinking at any cost. But we can't get rid of alcohol control repeatedly (even if hospitalization is ineffective), and we are in pain. Do we really have to die? What can we do to stay awake for a long time?

here are some methods that will help you avoid drinking again as long as they are carefully implemented.

1. Remember: Alcoholism is an incurable, progressive and fatal disease

Alcoholism is a progressive and fatal disease. This disease is caused by the body's sensitivity to alcohol and the psychological compulsion to drink alcohol. At present, there is no medicine or psychotherapy in the medical field that can "cure"-we can't simply change our characteristics by hospitalization or taking medicine, so as to return to the normal and moderate social drinking state in the early stage of drinking.

thousands of alcoholics can't stop drinking. Not only do we see many alcoholics drink themselves to death ―― they die of D.T.'s syndrome or spasm, or they die of cirrhosis caused by drinking, but many of them actually die from drinking instead of alcoholism. Moreover, when car accidents, drowning, suicide, homicide, heart disease, fire, pneumonia or stroke are listed as direct factors of death, the fact is that the serious drinking behavior of alcoholics leads to the conditions and direct causes of death.

most of us are not on the verge of the final stage of terrible alcoholism, so we think it is far away from that fate when drinking now. But if we continue to drink, there is no doubt that we will only die.

Many alcoholics who can't give up drinking will blame their weak moral values or think it is due to their unbalanced mentality. However, there is nothing morally wrong with drinking, because it is a disease. At this stage, it can't be overcome by one's own will, because alcoholics have lost the ability to choose freely in front of alcohol.

so we don't need to be embarrassed about our illness, which is nothing to be ashamed of. It's not our fault. We don't want to be alcoholics, and we don't try to get this disease just like no one wants to get pneumonia. Experience shows that as long as you have a strong desire to give up drinking, fully understand the seriousness of the problem and take care of yourself in a way that is free from alcohol and full of happiness, you can still live a happy, healthy and valuable life like a normal person.

2. Stay away from the first glass of wine

"If you don't drink the first glass of wine, you won't get drunk." "One cup is too much, but twenty cups are not enough."

when we change from drinking more to drinking, frequent drunkenness seriously interferes with our life and work, so we reduce the number of drinking, or try to control the amount of alcohol to one or two glasses, or switch from high-alcohol to beer or wine, so as not to get too drunk. Maybe we can stay sober for a period of time, and then meet the opportunity (some special celebrations, personal confusion or nothing special at all), and we will start drinking again. At first, we want to drink only one glass. Since one glass of wine has not caused any serious consequences, we think it is safe to drink another. But it turns out that it's just a trap-when we drink two or three glasses, we feel good, and then we feel that it won't be a problem to drink one or two glasses with our capacity. As a result, we couldn't help drinking too much and returned to the original state of drunkenness.

Doctors who specialize in alcohol dependence tell us that it is the first glass of wine that triggers the potential desire to drink, and then makes us out of control. This repeated experience leads us to the conclusion that it is impossible to try to control the drinking plan without getting drunk, and avoiding the key glass of wine-"never misbehave the first glass" can keep us awake for a long time.

Alcohol dependence is an addiction to alcohol. As a soft drug, alcohol is just like any other addictive substance. If we want to stay in a state of recovery, we have to stay away from the anesthetic that caused our addiction in the first dose.

3. Use the "24-hour" plan

On the days of heavy drinking, we often solemnly swear "Never drink again" when we are very uncomfortable. "I vowed not to drink for a year. ",said from the heart, we really don't want to get drunk again. Of course, some people will have reservations: saying that this oath is only for "spirits", not beer. In fact, beer and wine can also make us drunk, but we need to drink more to achieve the same effect as white wine. We are as hurt by drinking beer and wine as we are by drinking spirits.

However, after a while, the vows and painful memories will be forgotten. We started drinking again at some point. Our "forever" can never last.

Of course, some of them did keep their promises and quit for a long time, two months, six months, or a year. Until the time came, we felt that we should be able to drink freely and in control ... We resumed drinking, and soon fell into the original trouble with new guilt and regret.

Alcohol dependence is a permanent and irreversible disease. Our experience tells us not to make a long-term vow to stay awake. A more practical and effective way to put it is: "I just don't drink today."

maybe we drank yesterday, but we can decide not to drink today. No matter what temptation and anger we encounter, we try our best to avoid drinking the first glass of wine today.

If the desire to drink alcohol is too strong, then divide the 24 hours into smaller units-at least one hour-and we can tolerate the discomfort caused by this temporary cessation of drinking, then one more hour! Another hour! Go on. If we succeed today, we have reason to believe that we can do it tomorrow.

the "24-hour" plan is very arbitrary. We can start over at any time, no matter where we are. At home, at work, in the hospital ward, at 4: in the afternoon or at 3: in the morning, we can decide not to touch alcohol for the next 24 hours or 5 minutes at any time.

We are just trying to live today (now), just to stay awake-it really works. Once this way of thinking has become a part of our thinking, we find that a 24-hour life is equally effective and satisfactory for dealing with other things.

4. Take action

The more we want to stay away from alcohol, the more we want to drink. Therefore, it is not enough to simply stay away from alcohol (or not to think about drinking).

once you stop drinking, how do you spend the spare time? Most of us have formal work to do, but there is still a lot of free time to kill. Therefore, we must cultivate new hobbies and arrange colorful activities to fill these hours, and at the same time find an appropriate outlet for the energy that was once addicted to alcohol.

there are many things that can be done that are suitable for us and meaningful.

1. At the beginning of abstinence, you can take a walk or a brisk walk. Especially to new places you have never been. Go for a leisurely stroll in the park or country road, but it's not a tiring March.

2. read. Although some of us can't settle down to reading, we should really read some books, so as to broaden our horizons, increase our life experience and concentrate more.

3. Visit museums or galleries, and some people choose photography.

4. Swimming, running, cycling, yoga or other exercises recommended by the doctor.

5. Start to deal with household chores that have been neglected for a long time. Tidy up the wardrobe, dresser, file documents in different categories, or deal with things that we have put off for a long time. But when we do these things, we should not be greedy and do what we can. Don't clean the whole kitchen or all the documents at once, but clean one drawer or one file folder at a time and do other work another day.

6. Try to cultivate new hobbies. Choose activities that are not too expensive or demanding, that are purely recreational, refreshing and refreshing without competition pressure. For example, singing, writing, tropical fish, carpentry, basketball, cooking, bird watching, amateur performances, wood carving, gardening, guitar, movies, dance, stone carving, potted plants, collection and so on. Many people find that the activity they really like now is actually a hobby that they never considered trying in the past.

7. regain the fun of the past. A watercolor painting, table tennis or go, reading notes, etc. that you haven't polished for many years, continue these hobbies. But if you feel that it is no longer suitable for you, just give it up.

8. Go to class. Learn Japanese or English? Love history or math? Want to know about archaeology or anthropology? Or cooking, computer operation, then go to correspondence courses, TV universities or adult education (just for interest, not necessarily a credit certificate). There are many places where you can take classes only once a week. Why not try it? Taking classes can not only broaden your horizons, but also broaden your life. In case you are tired of the content of the class, don't hesitate to quit immediately Learn to give up activities that are not beneficial to ourselves or have no positive, positive and healthy significance, so that we can summon up the courage to face it again and have the opportunity to appreciate a new aspect of life besides drinking.

9. volunteer to do some useful services. Many hospitals, children's service agencies and social welfare organizations are in great need of volunteers to provide various services. We can have many choices. When we can contribute to others, even if it is only a trivial service, we will feel particularly useful. Even when we talk about the process of participating in these activities and related information, we will feel very interested and particularly engaged.

1. dress yourself up. Most of us know that there are many ways to get a new haircut, wear a new dress, change a pair of glasses, or even update our teeth, which will have unexpected and pleasant effects.

11. Relax and play! Not everything we do in our daily life must be aggressive and innovative. We also need to do some activities purely for interest, such as kites, zoos, comedy movies, soul music, detective stories and so on. If you don't like them, find other fun activities that have nothing to do with drinking, just to reward yourself.

5. Change old habits

In the process of drinking, we have fixed time periods, familiar places and habitual activities. Especially when you are tired, hungry, lonely, angry or particularly happy, these seem normal and heavy.