Addiction Recovery

Anyone who has got into the bad habit of abusing alcohol or any other substance has fallen into the category of substance abuse. It is a common event and an expensive pastime and will lead to serious health problems as well has ruining family and other relationships. It is estimated that in the US and Canada alone that 100,000 deaths are caused by the result of alcohol abuse every year.

Alcohol is on top of the list of drugs most abused by kids between the ages of 12 and 17, in other words minors. The most common cause of death in teenagers are motor accidents due to excessive alcohol, although other resulting behavior patterns include high-risk sexual habits, getting poor grades or low job performance, the use of tobacco products and experimenting with illegal drugs.

The problem is that our kids tend to suffer from depression, so alcohol and drugs are just a bi product in the attempt to get over feeling depressed. You know if you have a problem related to alcohol abuse when it effects your health or your natural abilities in your daily life. Alcoholism is just a term used for anyone who is physically or emotionally dependent on alcohol in order to get through the day.

There is no defined mode of alcohol abuse as drinking habits vary from getting drunk on a daily basis to just drinking way to much at the weekend. You quite often find that sufferers will tend to be sick or ill on Mondays and Fridays as their mind focuses on their drinking habits.

They will probably use having a cold or flu as an excuse. There are others though who might stay dry for weeks or months even, but then will fall by the wayside and start to binge drink to make up for lost time. Once you come off the alcohol you will automatically suffer from withdrawal symptoms such as trembling, delusions, hallucinations, and sweating and if you just stop overnight.. Read the rest of this entry »

Delirium tremors: This results from the long continued action of the poison on the brain. It occurs in chronic alcoholics due to (1) Temporary excess (2) sudden withdrawal (3) shock after receiving an injury, such as fracture of a bone, or (4) from acute infection, such as pneumonia, influenza, erysipelas etc

It typically begins 72 to 96 hours after the last drink. There’s an acute attack of insanity in which the main symptoms are coarse muscular tremors of the face, tongue and hands, insomnia, restlessness, loss of memory, agitation, confusion, disorientation, uncontrollable fear and has tendency to commit suicide, homicide or violent assault or to cause damage to property. Other symptoms are diarrhea, dilated pupils, fever, tachycardia, tachyapnoea and hypertension. There is disorientation as to time and place and a peculiar kind of delirium of horrors owing to hallucination of the sight and hearing. The patient imagines that insects are crawling under the skin, or snakes are crawling on his bed it is considered unsoundness of mind and not intoxication. Death occurs in about 5 to 5$ of the cases. To control agitation diazepam should be given

Alcoholic Polyneuritis and Korsakoff’s Psychosis: The symptoms of Polyneuritis are weakness; pain in the extremities, wrist and food drop, unsteady gait, loss of deep reflexes and tenderness of muscles of arms and legs

Alcoholic paranoia: In this there are fixed delusions but no hallucinations. The person becomes deeply suspicious of he motives and actions of those he meets and of his family members.

Acute Alcoholic hallucinations: Persistent hallucinations develop within 48 hours after cessation of alcohol intake. The hallucinations may be auditory or visual and their content is usually unpleasant and disturbing. The disorder may last several weeks or months

Alcoholic epilepsy: se Read the rest of this entry »

Can You Cope?

You might be surprised, as was I, to learn that by age six or so, we are programmed with the identity we carry with us through life. Our schools do not generally teach about this and we don’t always learn about it until we have issues with which to wrestle in our lives. About three-fourths of all our issues are filtered through this very program! As humans, we need to go through some REDISCOVERY if we are to live successfully from our hearts.

According to Alex Loyd, PhD, this programming can be problematic because the programming itself is based on beliefs that may or may not be true.

Dr. Loyd has done a great deal of research on this matter and he has worked with clients in a clinical setting for years.

He sites, for example, addiction issues. If addictions are interfering with one’s life, addiction has come about because of something the heart remembers when that addict was a little child.

Somewhere in that addict’s life he took a ‘vow’. ‘He cut a deal’. He made a ‘contract with the devil’. He made an informal commitment that has affected his life for as long as the vow is in place, and it affects his life negatively.

Everyone has these contracts, vows, commitments, and deals to one extent or another. Here’ how it works, according to the good doctor:

I can cope with (fill in the blank) IF ONLY I have (fill in the blank). Those blanks may include the following:

” I can do without love IF ONLY I have money. (This is VERY common)

” I can survive without fame IF ONLY I have money.

” If I am rejected, I’ll survive IF ONLY I have money

The list goes on. I’m sure you understand the concept. You can easily see that we bargain for one thing, substituting another.

Every human being needs food, shelter, and clothing. This is basic to life. Beyond the basics, we substitute. MOST Read the rest of this entry »