Beer is not considered a strong alcoholic drink and it seems that there is no point in having a glass or two before bed. But daily consumption of beer leads to serious consequences, as well as strong addiction, which is not always possible to overcome on your own.
Everyone has their dose of beer, which is good in the evening and bad in the morning. But if a man drank beer in the evening and she drank more than three liters, and a woman drank more than a liter, then it would not be good in the morning, neither for one nor forthe other.
All the consequences of alcohol poisoning are obvious: smoke that makes the trolleybus passengers next to you shudder, a headache. Also nausea, depression, poor coordination.
If you decide to have a glass of beer with friends, this should not turn into daily drinking sessions in large quantities. Changes in behavior, aggression and irritability appear, which can affect the family - partner, children, parents. Because they are the ones closest to everyone, they are the weak link on whom you can blame your dissatisfaction.
Even a bottle of beer makes some people aggressive. A foggy brain often cannot distinguish who is in front of it. The boundaries of morality blur and the feeling of danger disappears. And then those actions are committed that a sober person can regret for the rest of his life.
If you're reading this article, maybe it's time to stop drinking beer yourself, or maybe someone close to you has a problem. A glass of beer with friends in the evening has already become your constant companion, and you simply have no idea what you will do if suddenly there is no more beer.
Most do not consider beer addiction a problem or illness because it has a low alcohol content. Advertising in which TV stars, pop stars and even athletes drink beer acts as a stimulating factor. This creates a sort of community in which everyone who buys and drinks beer is involved in something more than just gatherings with friends.
People on TV screens or posters look absolutely happy and, oddly enough, sober. They celebrate a goal with a drink in hand or drink beer after a long tourist hike. They're celebrating. Any advertising settles 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 beer alcoholic from the outside. It could be your bottle-feeding friends or acquaintances who drink. What will you see? Are they as beautiful as the ones on screen?
Female and male alcoholism
Beer is a man's drink. You can drink liters of beer while standing. So if it is a weak drink, why can't a woman drink it?
Advertising rarely features girls with a glass of beer. The predilection for the latter 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 intestines, the ethanol contained in any alcoholic beverage is broken down in the liver. Women have fewer hormones capable of breaking it down and completely eliminating it, so the breakdown period 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 against skin aging. And the beer was only consumed for six months. Dilated and burst blood vessels on the face, a red tip of the nose, swelling and much more do not decorate a woman at all. And they, the consequences, will certainly come. So it is worth poisoning yourself with beer, knowing that in a few years the face and skin, often the most beloved by women, will turn into something that will be disgusting to look at. And certainly, it will betray a drinking woman. Accordingly, push people away.
The smell of dad's beer is scary, but mom's
Every glass of beer shatters your children's psyche, but not all parents wish them anything. A mother who drinks, even after a bottle of beer, causes panic in any child. And the aggression that comes after a beer party most often affects the closest creature: the child.
Unborn child and beer
Drinking beer during pregnancy causes alcohol withdrawal in the newborn. Should I say anything more? What would her internal organs or psyche look like if the future mother did not disdain a glass of beer in the evening?
The baby is constantly screaming, he is twisted, he is in pain. Barely born, he already suffers from abstinence syndrome - withdrawal syndrome. Often, these children are born with pathologies that are incompatible with life.
Does this only apply to the mother? No. If a child was conceived by a drunk father, whose body has already undergone changes, then the baby may suffer from many diseases that cannot be predicted in advance.
If you are planning to become pregnant, avoid drinking alcoholic beverages. And of course you also have to stop drinking beer, even if it is partly a product of fermentation, I'm not just diluted alcohol. If you can't think of yourself, think of the closest person in your life: your unborn child.
Beer does not cause less damage to men. The fact is that the female hormone phytoestrogen (an analogue of the pregnancy hormone progesterone), contained in beer, inhibits male hormones. The consequences are numerous, one of them is impotence.
And there are also many "funny" consequences in the form of swollen mammary glands, a 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 gray matter. The chemical element built into the brain's wiring system can only be removed by medication. This leads to psychophysical disorders, memory problems, delayed reactions and, in some cases, even dementia.
Stomach.Beer contains fermentation products and alcohol. Once in the stomach, it of course causes fermentation. Over time, the gastric mucosa atrophies and gastric juice stops being secreted. As a result, beer causes gastritis, which develops into chronic gastritis, causing:
- general weakness;
- constant fatigue;
- frequent pain in the epigastric region (stomach area);
- stool problems and many other extremely unpleasant consequences.
Added to this condition are chronic irritability, aggressiveness and everything associated with it.
The body's filter is the liver.It absorbs and passes everything you put in your mouth. Chronic alcohol intoxication leads to the destruction of liver cells. It ceases to cleanse the body of toxins and acts only to eliminate the consequences of dubious pleasure from the body.
Beer hepatitis quickly and easily leads to liver cirrhosis. But they haven't really learned how to treat it yet.
Kidneys.They are then poisoned. They remove liquids containing any harmful substances that are not absorbed into the bloodstream. Alcohols irritate the renal pelvis and destroy its tissues. Then the kidneys begin to work better, removing from the body not only decay products, but also useful microelements and materials from which the cells of our body are built.
But a kidney infarction can occur even in a novice alcoholic. This is the necrosis of the vessels that nourish the kidney tissue, or their thrombosis. The consequence is that the part of the kidney that has stopped receiving blood simply dies.
Heart.When alcohol enters the body, increased stress falls on the heart. This is 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 only occur in the heart. Abuse of beer leads to the fact that blood vessels become flabby, unable to contract and lose their elasticity. And then the heart does not receive sufficient blood flow, becomes overgrown with fat, the walls thicken, and then a heart attack is not far away.
"If I had known where you would fall, I would have laid out 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 so. But several points should seriously alert you.
- You want to drink in the morning, without waiting until the evening.
- You can't live a single day without a bottle of beer.
- You were going to drink a bottle, but you can't stop even after three hours.
- Little things begin to irritate you, inexplicable fear appears, and depression increases.
- Your attention is distracted and you cannot complete simple tasks.
- You are considering pregnancy – this applies to both women and men.
This 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 place, inextricable connections have formed in the brain and it is time for you to contact a specialist.
The first step for those who can stop drinking on their own.
If you decide to try to stop drinking beer on your own, without the participation of doctors, first try staying alcohol-free for a month. Only 30 days, if you're not an alcoholic it's not that hard.
The attraction towards a cup or a bottle, especially in the first days, will be strong. You will have to switch your brain to 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 won't refuse you. And above all, move away from your environment, avoid people who are not afraid of missing a bottle and who will pull you with all their might.
You haven't always drank beer and only enjoyed it, have you? Remember what made you happy before and try to replace beer with other joys.
Did you manage to last 30 days? Then the next step is 6 months, then a year. If all goes well, this means that you were able to independently interrupt chemical reactions in the brain and recover psychologically.
You can treat yourself to a glass of champagne for the New Year or wine for your birthday. But not more. If you relapse, it will be much more difficult to recover.
A common expression is: "I can stop drinking whenever I want. "I haven’t drank (drank) in a year, " is the first sign of a return to old habits. Don't start again, remember the first week of stopping alcohol. This may discourage you from wanting to drink.
Second step. Play sports.
If you drank beer not as a sedative to calm down, but to become more daring, then the adrenaline that sports 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. This charges the body and relaxes it. In addition, harmful substances are removed through our skin and water washes them away. And this is the question of cleansing the body. For this, literally any physical activity is suitable.
Withdrawal syndrome - it's time to see a doctor.
Everything is like in a baby whose parents have drunk alcohol:
- tremors (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 cannot delay any longer. This requires immediate treatment. It will first be medicinal, aimed at eliminating alcohol and degradation products from the blood, then psychological. It all depends on the condition of the body.
Often, the drinker's relatives, who cannot force the patient to see a doctor, use various traditional coding methods, go to their grandparents - they helped their neighbor! Don't self-medicate. At a minimum, it can be wasted money, and at a maximum, such a non-standard and unconventional solution can lead to serious illnesses. In some cases (drinking with herbs, adding "miraculous" emetics, etc. ) to death.
The scene is psychological.
Psychologists have many techniques that can help you stop drinking. One option is group therapy. This may sound funny, and for some it is 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. Restart. Do you remember the first time you drank beer? What did that have to do with it? Maybe you drank with friends to appear cool. But now beer isn't cool anymore. It's cool to be healthy and rich now.
If you drink because you want to rediscover your childhood love or return to your teenage years, 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. And besides, 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 advisors.
Believe me, such simple psychological techniques can replace beer for you. But it is best if you get help from an experienced psychologist who can identify the underlying causes. After all, the problem isn't always on the surface. A specialist will help you cope with depression, irritability, cravings for beer and weakly alcoholic drinks.
What to do if a teenager drinks
Not every parent knows whether their child has tried beer or not. Often, children try beer first. They do not yet understand all the consequences of their actions. For them, it is one of the stages of growth. Most boys imitate their fathers. And what? He drinks beer and nothing happens to him.
The effects of beer on the body of adolescents manifest themselves faster and stronger. These can be serious hormonal imbalances, as well as all of the above diseases.
If you are on good terms with your son or daughter, talk to them. Don't talk when the child comes home "under the table. "It simply won't do anything.
Talk to him without shouting, calmly and remember: a monologue is not perceived. Try not to get angry and make 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-related alcoholism.
What to do if you lose contact with the child? Here you definitely need to contact a psychologist-psychotherapist. Not to the grandmother for a conspiracy, nor to psychics, nor to sorcerers - just to an experienced doctor.
If you and your child try to solve the problem, you will not only prevent its further development and strengthening of alcohol dependence. You can also establish contact with a teenager.
Reasons Teenagers May Drink
Example of parents.This is the first and most important factor. If you suddenly notice something unusual in your teen's behavior, remove all alcohol from the house. If you stop drinking, your child will start again. So start with yourself. Live a sober life. Show that this is normal, not an evening in front of the TV with a bottle of beer and popcorn.
Business.If people are drinking in groups, change the environment. That’s right, don’t TRY to get your child out, but do it. Perhaps a sports section, a different social circle or sometimes just a move to another place will help.
Advertisement.It is impossible to protect yourself from it. Beer advertising follows us everywhere - that's a lot of money that producers won't 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.