Alcohol addiction is a terrible sorrow for the family. Intoxicated people are the first cause of domestic violence, financial hardship, and false stereotypes in young children. By constantly observing drinking relatives in the family, children can repeat their fate.
How to convince an alcoholic to stop drinking?
The big problem is that drunks don’t recognize the existence of alcohol addiction to the extreme. For them, alcohol is the only joy in life. The feeling of problems, the difficulties of life, is blurred.
It becomes almost impossible to get a person to stop drinking. But the period of leisure time spent with a pleasant glass ends quickly, diseases appear, irreversible changes occur in the cerebral cortex.
Growing social problems
- more frequent conflicts in the family;
- a change of environment is taking place - proven friends are turning away and alcoholics are taking their place;
- in a state of intoxication one easily breaches the law;
- lost interest in life, etc.
How can you get your loved ones to stop drinking?
In order not to lose a completely loved one, relatives and friends have one last chance - to force a person to quit alcohol. In this case, the methods must not be ignored and the means of returning the stumbled person to society must not be neglected. How do you get me to stop drinking? Do you have to convince him? Where should I start? Maybe treatment should be forced?
Undoubtedly, we need to try to convince, to make people aware of the problem, to help them recognize and understand it: the situation needs to be addressed somehow. To stretch your mind, to recall memories of how good it was when you were not dominated by alcohol.
Once the problem is recognized, the alcoholic should be forced to give up alcohol. This is an extremely difficult task that requires an incredible effort from you and the patient. Awareness of the problem does not always cause you to stop drinking. One does not admit to the end that he cannot quit, but assures others that he simply does not want to quit at the moment. But as soon as you want, vodka is forgotten without any effort. He sincerely believes that there is a lack of real motivation today, especially that tomorrow is "Vasya's neighbor's birthday" and then fishing day, but after the New Year, he will definitely leave from 8 a. m. This can go on indefinitely. out of yourself.
What makes you stop drinking?
There are some general rules for convincing an alcoholic:
- talk about the problem only if you are sober;
- You are an important person to the patient;
- produce hard evidence that he has indeed become an alcoholic;
- justify his desire to help him recover from drunkenness;
- prove that there are reliable treatment methods, cite addicted friends as an example;
- promise to support you morally throughout.
It is often our own fault that drinking becomes a disaster. We ourselves try to ignore the problem to the very end. We are losing the moment when addiction began to dominate. Remember, when your loved one started to lose your sense of proportion more often while drinking alcohol, the next day we hear this:
- "They always rest like this";
- "I'm not in trouble, everything's fine";
- "I control everything";
- "so I had to" and so on.
Whatever justification is given for "this is the last time" promises, know that you already have a serious problem! This means that your husband, son, boyfriend has become addicted to alcohol, now it is difficult to persuade a man to stop drinking. But if soyou leave, it will not work, but will begin to degrade before your eyes:
- it will not stop drinking but, on the contrary, will do so more and more often;
- it becomes more aggressive over time;
- loses control more often;
- they gradually destroy their emotional and mental state.
Even in a sober state, there are consequences of alcohol dependence: irritation, depression, isolation, tension. You don't have to pamper yourself with illusions - "maybe you'll get better on your own, " "everything will change over time. "
How could I get my husband to stop drinking?
It’s time to act, but what makes a husband stop drinking? All methods are good for this, we have to try everything. Before using different methods to combat alcohol dependence, it is necessary to:
- to gain or increase motivation - it must be strong. A person experiences an addiction that can only be overcome with strong motivation;
- increase your self-esteem - to remind you what you loved, how much you were valued at work before you started drinking.
An interesting fact: if a man is loved, valued, surrounded by care, it is almost impossible to meet an alcoholic in such families. A man takes his first steps towards a bottle because of dissatisfaction with his life and family relationships. It is difficult for a lost person to help him find himself, but it is even more difficult to correct him. If a wife wants to save her husband, she needs to stop scandals, tantrums and crying, try to meet her calmly and kindly.
Ask yourself questions and answer them honestly:
- How do I change myself so that my husband stops drinking?
- What am I ready to do to stop drinking?
Hard? Hard? But there is no other way. Stop accusing you of all sins, stifle your duties, squeeze, limit. For a while, remove from your mind the belief that:
- you have to do it;
- must be responsible;
- he's a man;
- is obliged to "pull the family";
- must, must, must. . .
You already have a patient in front of you, help him recover, and only then remind him of his duty. In the meantime, stop making constant blame, don’t focus on this problem, take care of yourself. And maybe then his words about the harmfulness of alcohol will find an answer in his soul.
Understanding, patience, caring - this should surround the person, and the result of your efforts is a strong family and a person who has stopped drinking. Connect your relatives and friends. It is possible that your father or mother will be able to convince an alcoholic about the treatment. Friends who have fun with alcohol can also help. The word of a friend will often be a compelling argument for making an important decision.
How could I convince my son to stop drinking?
If you stop drinking, you are an alcoholic, the patient needs support. Isolated from drinking friends, this is important for a successful fight against the green snake. Always support it, even if it fails and breaks. Let me try to beat the bad habit again.
Do not keep alcohol in the house, give up alcohol yourself. The explanation "I drink but I know when to stop" is not appropriate. You can stop drinking if you set a positive example.
Measures to gradually limit the amount of alcohol in life do not work, there is no "cultural drinking. " Complete and permanent refusal of alcohol is a key condition for sobriety.
What to do with alcoholics fighting the "green snake"? Support them in their endeavors and in their attempts to break the habits. For example, when a father persuades him to stop drinking and his son tries to refuse a glass, he vividly presents positive emotions, approval. If the boy stumbles again, show sadness, dissatisfaction. You have to help the drunk to cope with his addiction.
Can a person stop drinking alone?
We want to warn you that self-medication for alcoholics is rarely effective. Sometimes, with the help of character and will, this is possible when alcohol dependence has not yet reached a physical state. The basis for giving up addiction is the desire to save the family, gaining a job, social status, another goal that will be rewarded for the efforts made. To help yourself, it is worth starting the right diet, jogging, bathing weekly.
Folk and medical treatments are widely used to combat alcoholism. Both options have advantages and disadvantages. It is often practiced when one cannot convince a drinking friend, husband, or son of the harmfulness of the habit.
There are pharmacological and folk preparations that cause extreme aversion to alcohol. They are harmless and do not cause addiction or rejection of the body. They contain substances that are completely incompatible with alcohol. It is added to the drinking person for a drink or food.
After consuming alcoholic beverages, they cause unpleasant reactions in the body: vomiting, nausea, dizziness, etc. Among the most commonly used folk remedies:
- thyme decoction;
- lamb decoction;
- St. John's wort decoction.
In ancient times, there was an interesting way to covertly persuade you to stop drinking - the fertilizer. The fungus contains a substance that prevents the conversion of ethyl alcohol to acetaldehyde. If you eat mushrooms and then drink alcohol, you will have symptoms of severe poisoning. Our grandmothers thus weaned their husbands from alcohol unnoticed. But in modern reality, it is better not to use this method, especially since medicine is far advanced.
Why do you need the help of professionals?
If an alcoholic is unable to stop drinking, he can use not only folk hidden methods but also medications. These are pharmacological preparations in the form of drops and tinctures. Not expensive. Drugs can be used in secret, but success is not always possible.
If the disease is long and firmly rooted, the use of drops is not enough. Hospitalization of alcoholism is necessary with the involvement of doctors - narcologists and psychologists. In particularly severe cases of alcoholism, the help of qualified doctors is no longer essential.
There are 3 stages to chronic alcoholism. If the first two still give hope for the disease to go away on its own, then in the third stage, the alcoholics themselves will not stop drinking without the help of doctors.
There will come a time when problems will increase day by day, a decision must be made about mandatory treatment. Such a measure is regulated by Act 323-FZ. In the narcology clinic, the determination is made according to the conclusion of the psychiatrist.
We better not get into this state and help alcoholics get this far. Take care of your loved ones in advance and find your own way to convince the drinker to stop drinking. The specialized clinic, for its part, does its best to bring a healthy person back into society. True professionals treat alcoholism at any stage and are ready to accompany you from the first consultation to complete recovery.