Is there any medicine for alcoholism in Ningjin Second Hospital?

Literally, we mean "getting drunk" rather than "drinking".

For most people, "drinking a glass of wine" has long meant a happy time for friends to laugh and laugh. Based on the different ages of each of us, based on the environment around us when we first drank, we all have all kinds of memories and expectations (sometimes anxiety), which reminds us of a cold beer, a cocktail, gin and tonic water, whisky and beer, a sip of red wine and so on.

Over and over again, in the early drinking process of most people, the expectation of alcohol can always meet the actual needs of drinking.

If every time is just right, we will naturally think that "drinking a glass of wine" is a pleasant experience, which not only meets our own needs, but also does not exceed the norms of religious customs. At the same time, it satisfies the desire, caters to the etiquette of social occasions, and helps us relax, cheer up and realize our different pursuit goals. For example, a 55-year-old Finn, when someone asks him for a drink, can't help but immediately think of the warmth brought by drinking a glass or two of brandy or vodka in cold weather when he was young.

If she is a young woman, she may immediately think of a gorgeous crystal cup filled with champagne, fragrant clothes, intimate friendship and romantic atmosphere, or a young man with jeans, beard and long hair at a rock concert, taking out a bottle of booze from a bag full of bottled wine, with flashing lights and smoke, and everyone screaming and screaming, which is exciting. A member of AA said: "Have a drink" is almost synonymous with eating pizza and drinking beer.

Another 78-year-old widow said that when she was in a nursing home, she often couldn't help but think of the habit of drinking a glass of sherry before going to bed. Although this kind of drinking is very natural in our minds, it is misleading in our current situation, and this is also the way some of us start drinking.

If this is the process of drinking, it is unlikely that we will deteriorate into a drinking problem in the future. However, if we look at the process of drinking fearlessly, we will find that no matter how hard we try, there has never been such a perfect and magical moment in our last few years or months of drinking.

On the contrary, we have repeatedly found that our actual drinking amount is far greater than this, which always leads to some kind of trouble in the end. Maybe we just feel a little guilty about drinking too much in private.

But sometimes it will turn into a fierce quarrel, which will affect your work and even lead to serious diseases, accidents, or legal and financial problems. So, when a suggestion of "drinking" appears, now we try to recall the whole process from the beginning of drinking to the last poor drunkenness and hangover.

General friends invite us to drink, which generally refers to the way of entertainment and a cup or two of tasting.

But if we carefully recall all the details of the pain caused by the last drunkenness, we will not be confused by the long-standing impression of "drinking a glass of wine" in our minds.

Now we can frankly admit that in terms of our real physiological reaction, we are quite sure that a cup of yellow soup means that we will get drunk again sooner or later, which will bring a series of troubles.

Drinking no longer means music and joy to us, but memories of illness and regret. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous once said, "I know that if I go to a bar for a drink now, it will never be the same again, just spend a little time and some money."

This drink will exhaust my bank account, my family, my house, my car, my job, my reason and even my life. This is really too big, too expensive and too risky. "

He remembers the last time he got drunk, not the first time he drank.

Eliminate self-pity

This feeling is so uncomfortable that no one wants to admit his true feelings frankly in this state. Even after waking up, many of us are still good at hiding the fact that we are in chaos and anxiety because of self-pity.

We don't like being told this situation at all, and we will argue sharply that we are experiencing it.

Other different types of emotional distress, rather than this embarrassing and extremely unpleasant self-pity

Or we can find many completely reasonable reasons to feel a little sorry for ourselves in one second. Even after a long period of abstinence, this familiar, comfortable and painful feeling still haunts us.

Self-pity is an attractive swamp, and it is easier for us to fall into it than hope, belief or action.

Self-pity is not unique to alcoholics. Everyone can recall the painful memories of childhood or vaguely remember the relief after crying out to vent their dissatisfaction when they were in poor health, and the willfulness and stubbornness of refusing any form of condolences.

Almost all human beings are deeply sympathetic to the childish cry of "leave me alone" when we first gave up drinking. Some people will feel sorry for themselves: "I am poor, why can't I drink like others?" "Why does this have to happen to me? Why do I have to be an alcoholic? " "Why me?" This idea can easily get us tickets to the bar for drinking. But that's not all. Crying for such unanswerable questions is like lamenting that you were born at a bad time, or why you were born on this planet instead of elsewhere in the galaxy.

When we learn about alcoholics who don't drink and stay awake all over the world, we find that we are definitely not the only ones who have this problem. Later, we found that we had begun to reach a settlement on this issue. When we do make great progress in the process of happiness recovery, we may find the answer to the question or lose interest in further exploration. When the time is right, you can feel this change in yourself. Many of us think that we have found some possible reasons for becoming alcoholics.

But even if we can't do this, there are still more important facts that we must accept; Just don't drink, you have to take practical action. Trapped in the city, feeling sorry for myself, the effect is not very good.

Others are extremely keen on constantly sprinkling salt on past wounds. Since the period of drinking, we have often played this fierce and futile trick skillfully. We can also develop a strange talent to make a mountain out of a molehill, and interpret the trivial things as pessimistic prospects for the world. When you receive a large phone bill in the mail-only one.

We lament that we are always heavily in debt and assert that this situation will never change. The custard baked in the oven collapses, and we say, this proves that we can never do anything well. When the new car arrives, we will say to someone, "With my luck, this should be …" If you end this conversation in a derogatory way, it means that you have the same problem as us.

It's like carrying a camping bag, which is full of unpleasant memories of childhood injuries, rejection and so on. When we encounter any setbacks after 20 or even 40 years, things slightly similar to this setback in the bag will still be touched, prompting us to sit down, put down our backpacks, take out old injuries and rejections, and touch them with pity eyes. So we brought back the emotions of that year, and the scenes that were hard to remember vividly reappeared: I felt humiliated by the embarrassment of my childhood, gritted my teeth again for the anger of the past, let the disputes once occupy my heart, trembled again for fear of almost forgetting, and perhaps shed a tear or two for the love that drifted with the wind. These are extreme examples, and they are downright self-pity.

But for anyone who has experienced, witnessed or sobbed because of it, it is not beyond their knowledge. These problems are completely self-centered in nature. We can be so aggressive and only care about me, me, me. In fact, our behavior is completely out of touch with everyone else. This behavior pattern is intolerable to anyone, unless it is a sick baby in infancy. So when we fall into this self-pity situation, we will try to hide it, especially for ourselves. But this method can't solve the problem. We must get rid of our self-righteous mentality and take a step back. Honest and thorough introspection, once we can identify what self-pity is, we can try to deal with it, not just

You can drown your sorrows by drinking. The help of friends can also play a great role. Close friends can make us honest with each other.

They can hear the implication of our poor story and tell us in time, or we can pay attention to this situation ourselves; As long as we express ourselves orally in this simple way, we can begin to properly handle our true feelings.

Another excellent weapon is humor. When a member described his recent crazy self-pity at an alcohol abstinence meeting, there was a burst of laughter, and we listeners found ourselves as if we had seen the mirror reflected in the magic room. We are a group of adult men and women wrapped in diapers, serving babies with emotional disorders.

Perhaps this expression is shocking, but the member who shared the joke also took this opportunity to eliminate a lot of pain, and the final result was beneficial. When we start to feel sorry for ourselves, we can immediately deal with it in a way similar to bookkeeping. Every painful and sad thing is recorded in the expenditure column, while things worthy of our gratitude are recorded in the income column, such as our health, being lucky not to be sick, our caring friends, sunny weather, a delicious meal, intact limbs, kindness of others, staying awake for 24 hours, working hard for an hour, reading a good book and many other items, which add up to far more than the expenditure items that lead to self-pity. We can also use the same method to fight holiday depression.

This is not just a problem for alcoholics. Christmas, New Year, birthdays and anniversaries all make many people feel sorry for themselves. In A.A., we can know that this habitual tendency attracts our attention to homesickness, the lasting mourning for the dead and the people who turn a blind eye to us at present. Compared with the rich, what we can pay is negligible. Instead, add items recorded on the other side of the ledger. Thank you for your good health. People who care about us are around us, and we have the ability to care about others. Now we can stay awake and the credit balance exceeds again.

Get out of the "if" trap

Emotional distress is not the only factor that endangers our sobriety. Some of us, though not out of intention, have a tendency to associate our sobriety with other irrelevant things. Some members of our AA still call themselves "alcoholics", no matter how long they have been awake. Others prefer to say "alcoholics", both of which have good reasons.

"Alcoholic" is a more casual and self-deprecating tendency, and reminds yourself to drink. "Alcoholic" is equally frank, but more pertinent, more solemn and more in line with the currently accepted concept. Alcoholism is a serious disease, not just wanton and stubborn self-indulgence. A member of the Alcoholics Abstinence Association said, "We alcoholics are very uncertain people. In the days when we are addicted to alcohol, besides drinking, we always have a' if' fantasy.

We began to daydream a lot. We kept telling ourselves that if nothing happened, we wouldn't get drunk, or as long as … we wouldn't have any drinking problems.

Our last "if" is actually an excuse and reason for our next drink. Each of us will think, if … I wouldn't drink like this. If it weren't for my wife (or husband or lover) ... if I had more money and less debt ... if it weren't for these family problems ... if I didn't bear so much pressure ... if I had a better job or lived in a better place ... if other people could understand me ... if the world was not so bad ... if people could be more friendly, considerate and honest. ...

Looking back on this kind of thinking and the behavior caused by it, we now know that the past is really controlled by our external environment, which controls most of our lives. When we first started to quit drinking, these situations took a back seat in our minds. To varying degrees, many problems can be solved as long as we start to stay awake. At the same time, we are beginning to see that other things can be properly handled one day. And no matter how things evolve, our lives will get better and better.

On the other hand, after a period of sobriety, some of us will encounter unpleasant times and new blows. When we used to drink a lot, the habit and idea of "indecision" that made us blind still lingered on us even when we didn't drink.

Inadvertently, we set conditions for our sobriety, and we will begin to think that if everything goes well, it is good to stay awake, or there should be no problem. In fact, we ignore that our disease is too sensitive to be cured. There is no "if" exception to the problem of alcoholism. It won't leave us for a week, a day or even an hour, so that we can drink again on some special occasions or for other reasons.

Even in a once-in-a-lifetime celebration or a major sad blow, or if it rains in Spain, a meteorite falls in Alabama. For us, alcoholism is unconditional, there is no immunity, and there are problems anytime and anywhere.

We may need more time to fully understand the crux of our problems, and at the same time, we sometimes fail to realize the conditions we unconsciously attach to rehabilitation. Until we find that even if we don't make mistakes, there will still be some problems.

Well, what bad luck! We didn't expect this to happen. When we are faced with shocking and disappointing situations, we naturally want to drink. If we don't get a raise, promotion or the job we expect, or if our love life is not smooth, or if someone treats us badly.

Then we can learn that maybe we have been counting on the external environment to help us for a long time in order to keep ourselves awake. As long as our complex mind hides any subtle situation about sobriety, it will be ready to pounce on us at any time.

We always think, "It's good to stay awake. I'm going to stick to it." Even if we can't hear the reserved voice of mumbling, the implication still exists, that is, "if everything can be done according to my wishes." These "ifs" are all assumptions that we can't afford.

No matter what the living environment is, we must stay awake. No matter whether other non-alcoholics agree with our sobriety, we must separate sobriety from everything else. Avoid involving anyone, and don't use any possible situation as a reason to avoid it.

We have found time and time again that if we give up drinking for our wives, husbands, children, lovers, parents, other relatives or friends, we will not be able to stay awake for a long time. Nor is it to work or please the boss (doctor, judge or creditor). We do this for ourselves, not for anyone.

It is foolish and dangerous when we try to base our sobriety on anyone (even another abstainer) or any external environment. When we think of "if ... I will stay awake" or "I won't drink because ..." (anything can be filled in except my own will and for my own health), when the external conditions, people or environment change, we will inadvertently put ourselves in a drinking situation. Any of these conditions may change at any time.

Only when we build our sobriety on an independent basis and don't depend on anything else, can we continue to grow and develop and deal with anyone or anything. At the same time, as you can see, we are beginning to like this feeling.

Abandon old ideas

In the past, during drinking, we accumulated some deep-rooted ideas from life. Even after we stop drinking, they can't disappear like magic.

Although we are far away from the days of leading a drunken life, the disease of alcohol addiction still lingers. Therefore, we find that if we can try to get rid of many old ideas that are budding again, it will help us to recover.

And these old ideas do happen again and again. The goal we strive to achieve is to regain a sense of relaxation and freedom from the shackles of old ideas in the past. Many of our past thoughts and habits.

The concept it forms limits our autonomy.

When we look at it carefully with brand-new eyes, it turns out that they will only crush us and are useless. We don't need to stick to it any longer, unless it is proved to be useful by clear tests and it really works.

We can now use very specific standards to measure the current practicality and authenticity of an idea. We can say to ourselves, "I often think so when I drink." Does this mode of thinking help me stay awake now? Is this kind of thinking good for me today? " Many of our old ideas-especially those about alcohol, drinking, drunkenness and alcohol dependence (or alcoholism, if you agree with this wording)-are either worthless or actually self-destructive, and it will be a great relief to get rid of those ideas.

Perhaps a few examples are enough to illustrate the benefits of abandoning these old and useless ideas. When we are teenagers, for many people, drinking is an oath, indicating that we are no longer children, or that we have grown up. We are smart, mature, experienced or strong enough to disobey our parents and other authorities.

In many people's minds, drinking is always inseparable from romance, sex, music, success, superiority and luxury. If the school teaches anything about drinking, it's usually just the danger to health and the possibility of losing your driver's license-not much else.

At the same time, many people are still quite convinced that any drinking behavior is completely immoral and directly leads to crime, pain, humiliation and death. No matter what we used to feel about drinking, positive or negative, it is usually strong, emotional and far more than rational. Maybe our attitude towards drinking is just an unconscious and unthinking acceptance of other people's opinions.

For many people, drinking is a necessary and harmless part of social occasions, and it is a pleasant leisure activity between friends at a certain time and place.

Others may think that drinking is necessary for eating. But now we ask ourselves: If we don't drink, can't we actually enjoy friendship or food? It's the way we drink

Help improve your social relations? Can this improve our ability to enjoy food? Whether for or against the idea of getting drunk, the resulting reaction is even more extreme. A heavy drinker may be regarded as just having fun or just losing face.

For various reasons, the idea of getting drunk often makes many people feel disgusted. But for some of us, this is a state of longing. Getting drunk is not only to meet other people's expectations, but we also like this feeling. But at the same time, there is another influencing factor, which is the public's neglect of social celebrities.

Some people can't tolerate people who have never been drunk, and some people look down on people who are too drunk. As far as the conclusions found in health care today are concerned, the impact of changing these attitudes is still quite limited. When we first hear the word "alcoholic", most of us associate it with people who are old, ragged, shivering or begging, or people who get drunk in slums.

Anyone who has a full understanding of this problem now knows that this is all nonsense. However, despite this, when we first tried to stay awake, the vague concepts left over from our past still bothered us.

It blinds our eyes and makes it difficult for us to perceive the truth. But in the end, we finally become willing to accept that changing our past ideas-only possible-may be a bit wrong, or at least it can't fully reflect our personal experience. When we can convince ourselves to look at the past experience honestly and listen to other ideas different from ourselves carefully, we can face a long list of information that has not been examined in detail in the past with an open mind.

For example, we can look at the narrative of science majors: alcohol is not only a delicious drink to quench thirst, but also a drug that can change ideology. We know that drugs exist not only in drinks, but also in food and various drugs. And now almost every day, I can read or hear the multiple harms caused by some specific drugs to the human body.

Harm (including heart, blood vessels, stomach, lungs, mouth, brain, etc.). This is a situation that we have never doubted before. Pharmacologists and other addiction treatment experts now believe that alcohol, whether used as a drink, stimulant, sedative, tonic or sedative, can not be completely regarded as safe. But in each case, it may not directly lead to physical injury or mental fatigue.

Obviously, most people can use it gracefully, without causing harm to themselves or others. We found that drinking can be regarded as taking medicine in medicine, and getting drunk is like taking too much medicine. Drug abuse can directly or indirectly lead to various health, mental, family, social, economic and work problems.

We can start to see the consequences of alcohol for some people, instead of most people just thinking about what drinking brings us. We also found that anyone who has a drinking problem may be in what we call a "drinking" state.

The target of this disease is regardless of age, belief, race, sex, intelligence, background, mood, health, occupation, family status, physical fitness, eating habits, social or economic status or other general personality. The question is not how much or how you drink, when and why you drink, but how drinking affects your life-what happens when you drink.

Before we realize that we have this disease, we must first walk out of an old and boring misunderstanding: it is shameful and cowardly to admit that we can't control our drinking capacity (if we ever control it).

Weak? In fact, we need considerable courage to face up to this cruel reality. There is no reservation, no cover-up, no excuse, and we don't have to deceive ourselves. Although it doesn't seem like boasting, frankly speaking, many of us fantasize about being world champions. In the process of recovering from alcohol addiction, we will also be covered by some wrong ideas. Just like millions of other people, seeing a person die because of drinking with their own eyes, they will be very surprised why this alcoholic can't stop drinking with his own willpower.

This is another outdated concept, and we will always remember this concept, mainly because many of us have been exposed to some typical cases of super willpower in our early years, perhaps because our family or neighborhood has had legends. After years of bohemian life, he became notorious, but suddenly he changed his lifestyle and gave up alcohol and women. At the age of 50, he turned over a new leaf and became a model of decent behavior and honesty.

This naive idea that we can follow suit when we are ready is a dangerous illusion. We are not anyone else. We are just ourselves (we are not grandfathers who drink a big bottle every day and live to be 90 years old). ) Now we are very sure that overcoming the problem of alcohol addiction by our own willpower is as effective as treating cancer. We have repeatedly confirmed this from our own experience.

Most of us try to solve it alone, whether we want to control our drinking or give up drinking, but no matter how hard we try, we can't achieve lasting success. Even so, it is not easy for us to frankly admit that we need help. Because this seems to be a sign of cowardice.

Yes, we are deeply lost in another. But in the end, we ask ourselves: if we can gain and use more powerful power, will we be wiser than working in vain alone, especially after we have repeatedly proved that it doesn't work? If you press the switch, you can turn on the light. We think it unwise to continue trying to grope in the dark. We can't be fully awake ourselves. This is not the way we learned to stay awake.

At the same time, fully enjoying a sober life is not a job that one can complete alone. As long as we can consider a few ideas different from the old ideas, even temporarily, we have made the right decision and entered a happy and healthy new life.

Originally, we were convinced that this would never happen, but now this change is happening among our thousands of members.

Past experience shows that if we can seriously follow the following suggestions, we can minimize the impact of this problem.

1. As an alcoholic who is still recovering, you will unconsciously react to that uncomfortable feeling and seek relief from chemicals, and often tend to take more doses than usual. Therefore, when we feel pain or discomfort in our daily life, we should try our best to find non-drug solutions.

Please remember that the best protection against drug abuse and relapse is to actively participate in the rehabilitation program of A.A. 3.A.A members can't play the role of doctors. You should be completely honest with yourself and your doctor on the issue of drug use.

If in doubt, please consult a doctor who has experience in treating alcohol addiction. 6. Confess your alcohol addiction to any doctor or dentist you consult, and this trust will be respected and most helpful to doctors. 7. If you have ever had side effects on prescription drugs, please inform your doctor immediately. 8. If the private doctor refuses or fails to identify the special sensitivity of alcohol addicts to sedatives, antipsychotics and stimulants, you can consider changing doctors.

Some alcoholics need medication.

When we realize the danger of relapse, we also know that alcoholics are not immune to other diseases.

Some of us have to deal with depression that may lead to suicide; Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or other mental and physical diseases that sometimes require hospitalization. We also have epilepsy, heart disease, cancer, allergies, hypertension and many other serious diseases.

As many alcoholics find it difficult to use drugs, some members hold an opposition position that no one in the A.A. group should receive any drug treatment.

Although this attitude is undoubtedly a problem for some people to prevent relapse and addiction, it means disaster for others. Aaa members and many of their doctors have described cases in which other aa members told depressed patients to throw away pills.

But the only result is the recurrence of depression and all kinds of difficulties, sometimes even suicide. We also heard that patients with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, epilepsy and others who have to receive medication were discouraged from taking prescription drugs by other well-meaning alcoholics anonymous members. Unfortunately, the advice of these non-professionals often leads to the deterioration of the situation of these victims, as serious as before.

More importantly, they feel very guilty, because AA opposes the use of all drugs. Now, we know very well that just as it is wrong to support or lead any alcoholic to become addicted to drugs, it is also wrong to deprive any alcoholic of drug treatment to alleviate or control physical diseases and emotional problems.