Beer is not considered a strong alcoholic drink and it seems like there is no point in drinking a glass or two before going to bed. But drinking beer every day causes serious consequences, as well as a strong addiction, which you cannot always overcome on your own.
Everyone has their dose of beer, which makes them feel good in the evening and bad in the morning. But if a man drank beer in the evening, and it was more than three liters, and a woman drank more than a liter, then in the morning it would not be good, neither for one nor the other.
All the consequences of alcohol poisoning are obvious: a smoke that makes the trolleybus passengers next to you shiver, headache. Also nausea, depression, poor coordination.
If you decide to have a glass of beer with friends, this should not turn into daily sessions of heavy drinking. Changes in behavior, aggression and irritability appear, which can spill over into the family: partner, children, parents. Because they are the closest people to everyone, they are the weak link on which to unload one's dissatisfaction.
Even a bottle of beer makes some people aggressive. Often a foggy brain cannot distinguish who is in front of it. The lines of morality are blurred and the sense of danger disappears. And then those actions are committed that a sober person may regret for the rest of his life.
If you're reading this article, maybe it's time to stop drinking beer, or maybe someone close to you has a problem. A glass of beer in the evening with friends has already become your constant companion, and you simply have no idea what you will do if suddenly there is no beer left.
Most do not consider beer addiction a problem or disease, as it has a low alcohol content. Advertising in which television stars, pop stars and even athletes drink beer serves as a stimulating factor. This creates a sort of community in which all those who buy and drink beer are involved in something more than just meetings with friends.
People on TV screens or on posters look absolutely happy and, strangely enough, sober. They celebrate a goal with a glass in hand or drink beer after a long tourist trek. They are celebrating. Any advertising is deposited in the brain because it is repeated with a certain periodicity, inspiring: here it is, the way out of all life situations. Have a glass of beer and you will also feel joy.
Now look at the alcoholic beer from the outside. These could be your bottle buddies or drinking acquaintances. What will you see? Are they as beautiful as the ones on the screen?
Female and male alcoholism
Beer is a man's drink. You can drink liters of beer and still stand. So if this is a weak drink, then why can't a woman drink it?
Advertising rarely features girls with a glass of beer. The predilection for it is rather favored by the environment. We will talk further about how to get rid of alcoholism. Now we will not talk about the moral side of the problem, but let's try to understand what changes occur in the female body when drinking beer.
Once in the intestine, the ethanol contained in any alcoholic beverage is broken down in the liver. Women have less hormone that is able to completely break down and remove it, so the period of exhaustion is longer, which means that the poisoning of the body in a drinking woman will be much stronger.
Gulchatay, show your face
Beer consumption often affects women's appearance. And it may already be too late to fight skin aging. And the beer was only consumed for six months. Dilated and burst blood vessels on the face, red tip of the nose, swelling and much more do not decorate a woman at all. And they, the consequences, will surely come. So it is worth poisoning yourself with beer, realizing that in a few years your face and skin, which are often especially popular with women, will turn into something that will be disgusting to look at. And he will definitely cheat on a woman who drinks. As a result, push people away.
The smell of dad's beer is scary, but mom's
Every glass of beer breaks your children's psyche, but all parents wish them nothing. A mother who drinks, even after a bottle of beer, causes panic in every child. And the aggression that follows a beer party very often spills over to the closest creature: the child.
Unborn baby and beer
Drinking beer during pregnancy causes alcohol withdrawal in the newborn. Need I say more? What would her internal organs or psyche be like if the future mother did not disdain a glass of beer in the evening?
The child constantly screams, twists, suffers. Being just born, he already has withdrawal syndrome-withdrawal syndrome. Often these children are born with pathologies incompatible with life.
Does it only apply to the mother? NO. If a child was conceived by a drunken father whose body has already undergone changes, the child may suffer from a number of diseases that cannot be predicted in advance.
If you are planning to become pregnant, avoid drinking alcoholic beverages. And of course, you also need to stop drinking beer, although it is partially a product of fermentation, they are not just diluted alcohol. If you can't think of yourself, think of the closest person in your life: your unborn child.
Beer causes no less harm to men. The fact is that phytoestrogen, a female hormone (an analogue of progesterone, the pregnancy hormone), contained in beer, inhibits male hormones. There are many consequences, one of them is impotence.
And there are also many "funny" consequences in the form of swollen mammary glands, beer belly and other little things that turn a man into an asexual creature.
What happens in the body of an alcoholic
Let's start with the brain.Alcohol causes changes in chemical connections in the gray matter. The chemical element that is embedded in the brain's wiring system can only be removed through medications. This leads to psychophysical disorders, memory disorders, delayed reactions and in some cases even dementia.
Stomach.Beer contains fermentation products and alcohol. Once in the stomach, of course, it causes fermentation. Over time, the gastric mucosa atrophies and gastric juice ceases to be secreted. As a result, beer causes gastritis, which develops into chronic gastritis, causing:
- general weakness;
- constant tiredness;
- frequent pain in the epigastric region (stomach area);
- problems with stool and many other extremely unpleasant consequences.
Added to this condition are chronic irritability, aggression and everything associated with it.
The filter in the body is the liver.It absorbs and passes through itself everything you put in your mouth. Chronic alcohol intoxication causes the destruction of liver cells. It stops working to cleanse the body of toxins and only works to remove the consequences of dubious pleasure from the body.
Beer-induced hepatitis quickly and easily leads to liver cirrhosis. But they haven't learned how to treat it yet.
Kidneys.They are subsequently poisoned. They remove fluids that contain all harmful substances that are not absorbed into the blood. Alcohols irritate the renal pelvis, destroying its tissue. Subsequently, the kidneys begin to work in an enhanced manner, removing from the body not only decay products, but also microelements and useful materials from which the cells of our body are built.
But a renal infarction can occur even in a novice alcoholic. This is the necrosis of the vessels nourishing the renal tissue or their thrombosis. The consequence is that the part of the kidney that has stopped receiving blood flow simply dies.
Heart.When alcohol enters the body, increased stress falls on the heart. It occurs due to the fact that after one gram of alcohol the blood vessels immediately overflow with blood. The heart is forced to work harder. Varicose veins don't just occur in the heart. Abuse of beer leads to the fact that blood vessels become flaccid, unable to contract and lose elasticity. And then the heart does not receive sufficient blood flow, it becomes covered with fat, the walls thicken, and then a heart attack is not far off.
"If I had known where you would fall, I would have laid out some straws"
How much do you need to drink to have all these problems? It's different for everyone. Some people drink beer for years, while others only need a few months for the changes in the body to become irreversible. There is only one way to avoid them: stop drinking.
When is it time to think about consequences?
It's best the first day you plan to try the beer. In general, it is never too late to do this. But there are several points that should seriously warn you.
- You want to drink right in the morning, without waiting for the evening.
- You can't live a single day without a bottle of beer.
- You were about to drink a bottle, but you can't stop even after three.
- Small things begin to irritate you, an inexplicable fear appears, and depression increases.
- Your attention is distracted and you are unable to complete simple tasks.
- You are planning a pregnancy – this applies to both women and men.
It may seem rude, but with such symptoms it is too late to think about the consequences. We must already do something, take clearly targeted measures to change the situation. And most importantly, stop drinking beer.
How to cure alcohol or beer addiction
If a glass of beer a day has become your constant companion, then this is the first sign that your body has become addicted. Chemical reactions have taken effect, inextricable connections have formed in the brain and it's time to contact a specialist.
The first step for those who manage to stop drinking on their own.
If you decide to try to stop drinking beer on your own, without the participation of doctors, first try to stay without alcohol for a month. Just 30 days, if you are not an alcoholic, it's not that difficult.
The attraction to a cup or bottle, especially in the first few days, will be strong. You will have to turn your brain into something that will replace your beer. It could be an exciting hobby that will occupy your time and attention, or a job that will completely take away your free time.
Ask your loved ones for support - they probably will not refuse you. And most importantly, distance yourself from your surroundings, avoid those people who are not averse to losing a bottle and will pull you back with all their might.
You didn't always drink beer and just enjoy it, did you? Remember what made you happy before and try replacing beer with other joys.
Were you able to last 30 days? Then the next step is 6 months, then a year. If all goes well, it means that you managed to independently stop the chemical reactions in the brain and recover psychologically.
You can afford a glass of champagne for the New Year or some wine for your birthday. But no more. If you relapse, it will be much more difficult to recover again.
A common phrase is, "I can stop drinking whenever I want. "I haven't had a drink in a year, " is the first sign of returning to old habits. Don't start again, remember the first week you stopped drinking alcohol. This may discourage you from wanting to drink.
Step two. Playing sports.
If you drank beer not as a sedative to calm down, but to become bolder, then the adrenaline that sport will bring you can easily replace alcohol. Well, maybe it's not that easy. The main thing is not to reach for a cold drink after a run or a punching bag.
Swimming also saves. It charges the body and relaxes it. Furthermore, harmful substances are removed through our skin and water washes them away. And this concerns the question of cleansing the body. Literally any physical activity is suitable for this.
Withdrawal syndrome: it's time to see a doctor.
Everything is the same as with a child whose parents drank alcohol:
- tremor (not only the hands tremble, but the whole body as a whole);
- hallucinations;
- headache, high blood pressure, vomiting, convulsions.
All these symptoms are a reason to consult a doctor and you can no longer put it off. This requires immediate treatment. First, it will be medicinal, aimed at removing alcohol and degradation products from the blood, and then psychological. It all depends on the condition of the body.
Often the relatives of the drinker, who cannot force the patient to consult a doctor, use various traditional coding methods, go to grandparents - they helped their neighbor! Don't self-medicate. At a minimum, this may be a waste of money, and at a maximum, such a non-standard and unconventional solution can lead to serious diseases. In some cases (drinking with herbs, adding "miraculous" emetics, etc. ) until death.
The phase is psychological.
Psychologists have many techniques that can help you stop drinking. One option is group therapy. It may seem strange and for some completely unacceptable, but communicating with people who are quitting drinking, with people who are in the same situation, really helps.
One technique is to try substituting beer. You can use this option yourself. Start again. Do you remember the first time you drank beer? What was connected with this? Maybe you drank with friends to look cool. But now the beer isn't nice. It's nice to be healthy and rich now.
If you drink because you want to recapture childhood love or return to adolescence, then all you have to do is recreate and relive those moments, only now without beer.
Avoid contact with friends and colleagues who drink. This will give you time to get used to your new healthy lifestyle. Moreover, you can easily avoid ridicule, because these "comrades" often take it "weakly". So why take the risk of succumbing? For someone who has stopped drinking, these friends are no longer counselors.
Believe me, such simple psychological techniques can replace beer for you. But it is better to get help from an experienced psychologist who can identify the underlying causes. After all, the problem is not always on the surface. A specialist will help you cope with depression, irritability, cravings for beer and low-alcohol drinks.
What to do if a teenager drinks
Not all parents know whether their children have tried beer or not. Often children try beer in their first company. They do not yet understand the full consequences of their actions. For them, this is one of the stages of growth. Most boys imitate their father. And what? He drinks beer and nothing happens to him.
The effects of beer on the body of adolescents manifest themselves faster and more strongly. These can be serious hormonal imbalances, as well as all of the above diseases.
If you are on friendly terms with your son or daughter, talk to him or her. Just don't talk the moment the child comes home "under the table. "It just won't do anything.
Talk to him without shouting, calmly, and remember: a monologue is not perceived. Try not to lose patience and let your child talk. The more your child talks, the easier it will be to have a conversation. Only in this way can you change the situation and prevent the development of beer alcoholism.
What to do if you lose contact with your child? Here you definitely need to contact a psychologist-psychotherapist. Not to the grandmother for conspiracy, not to psychics, not to sorcerers, just to an experienced doctor.
If you and your child try to solve the problem, you will not only prevent his further development and strengthening of alcohol dependence. You can also make contact with a teenager.
Reasons why teens may drink
Example of parents.This is the first and most important factor. If you suddenly notice something unusual in your child's behavior, remove all alcohol from the house. If you stop drinking, your child will do it again. So he starts with yourself. Lead a sober lifestyle. It shows that this is what is normal, and not an evening in front of the TV with a bottle of beer and popcorn.
Agency.If people drink in groups, it changes the environment. That's right, don't TRY to get your child out, but do it. Maybe a sports section, a different social circle or sometimes just moving to another place will help.
Advertising.It is impossible to protect yourself from it. Beer advertising follows us everywhere: it's a lot of money, which producers will not refuse, despite the laws. In this case, there is only one way out: anti-advertising. Talk to your child, leave the moralizing tone only to your subordinates. And if you don't know what to do, a psychologist will help him stop drinking.