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What I learned at a alcoholism seminar and my own experience.Take the test below on alcoholism.
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Take this test to help you deal with drinking problems. 1. Do you occasionally drink heavily after a disappointment, a quarrel, or when the boss gives you a hard time? Yes____ No____ 2. When you have trouble or feel under pressure, do you always drink more heavily than usual? Yes____ No____ Have you noticed you are able to handle more liquor than you did when you were first drinking? Yes____No____ 3. Did you ever wake up on the “morning after” and discover that you could not remember part of the evening before, even though your friends tell you that you did not “pass out”? 4. When you are drinking with other people, do you try to have a few extra drinks when others will not know it? Yes____No____ 5. Are there certain occasions when you feel uncomfortable if alcohol is not available? Yes____No____ 6. Have you recently noticed that when you begin drinking you are in more of a hurry to get that first drink than you used to be? Yes____No____ 7. Do you sometimes feel a little guilty about your drinking? Yes____No____ 8. Are you secretly irritated when your family or friends discuss your drinking? Yes____No____ 9. Have you recently noticed an increase in the frequency of your memory “blackouts”? Yes____No____ 10. Do you often find that you wish to continue drinking after your friends have had enough? Yes____No____ 11. Do you usually have a reason for the occasions when you drink heavily? Yes____No____ 12. When you are sober, do you often regret things you have said or done While you were drinking? Yes____No____ 13. Have you tried switching brands or following different plans for Controlling your drinking? Yes____No____ 14. Have you often failed to keep the promises you have made to yourself 15.About controlling or cutting down on your drinking? Yes____No____ 16. Have you ever tried to control your drinking by changing jobs, or moving to a new location? Yes____No____ 17. Do you try to avoid family or close friends while you are drinking? Yes____No____ 18. Are you having an increasing number of financial and work problems? Yes____No____ 19. Do more people seem to be treating you unfairly without good reason? Yes____No____ 20. Do you eat very little or irregularly when you are drinking? Yes____No____ 21. Do you sometimes have the “shakes” in the morning and find that it helps to have a little drink? Yes____No____ 22. Have you recently noticed that you can’t drink as much as you once Did? Yes____No____ 23. Do you sometimes stay drunk for several days at a time? Yes____No____ 24. Do you sometimes feel depressed and wonder whether life is worth living? Yes____No____ 25. Sometimes after periods of drinking, do you see or hear things that aren’t there? Yes____No____ 26. Do you get terribly frightened after you have been drinking heavily? Yes____No____ Yes to questions 1-8 Early stage. Yes to questions 9-21 Middle stage. Yes to questions 22-26 Beginning of final stage Source: National Council on Alcoholism Are You An Alcoholic? Take the test below.
1. Do you lose time from work due to drinking? 2. Is drinking making your home life unhappy? 3. Do you drink because you are shy with other people? 4. Is drinking affecting your reputation? 5. Have you ever felt remorse after drinking? 6. Have you gotten into financial difficulties as a result of drinking? 7. Do you turn to lower companions and an inferior environment when drinking? 8. Does your drinking make you careless of your family's welfare? 9. Has your ambition decreased since drinking? 10. Do you crave a drink at a definite time of day? 11. Do you want a drink the next morning? 12. Does drinking cause you to have difficulty in sleeping? 13. Has your efficiency decreased since drinking? 14. Is drinking jeopardizing your job or business? 15. Do you drink to escape from worries or trouble? 16. Do you drink alone? 17. Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of drinking? 18. Has your physician ever treated you for drinking?
19. Do you drink to build up your self-confidence? 20. Have you ever been to a hospital or institution on account of drinking? If you have answered YES to any one of the questions, there is a definite warning that you MAY BE ALCOHOLIC. If you have answered YES to any two, the chances are that YOU ARE AN ALCOHOLIC. If you have answered YES to three or more, YOU ARE DEFINITELY AN ALCOHOLIC. The above questions are used by John Hopkins Hospital in deciding whether or not a patient is alcoholic.
My brother is an alcoholic. I believe the program I am going to tell you about would help him. The problem is my family won’t do it. These people with drinking problems need lot of nutrients. Because they don’t eat right and the alcohol does lots of damage. Use natural nutrients because the liver already has all that alcohol to detox. Click on the link below to learn more about alkalization. Alcohol is acid. The first thing to do is alkalize.
The person who drinks daily can have denial. He thinks he is in control. They think they can stop anytime. You must not be in denial,too. Don’t make excuses when he or she misses work or other circumstances. Don’t become the enabler after each drinking episode. Encourage the person to get help. Realize the person may have to hit the bottom to want to seek help. A tragedy like loss of family, financial ruin or ending up in prison can help them face reality. There are many good places to seek help. My brother has been to several private clinics and hospitals. He will stay off up to a year or so and then when he gets under stress he will start back. My other brother lives next door to him and my mom. He has been drinking for years also but he has a family and he does eat,bathe,work and he has a family. He only drinks for one night at a time not days. He won’t try the method I will tell you about for his brother. I think he is afraid it will work and then he might be pressured to stop himself. My mother won’t support this method either because she believes in letting a person do what they won’t. She doesn’t She doesn’t believe in tough love to help a person you love. I heard about this program a few years ago. It was being used in California. I thought at the time this program could work for some people. My brother is tender hearted and doesn’t like to hurt others. This is why I believe it could work for him. A professional should evaluate each person before starting any program. The program is simple. Get all the family members together that have regular contact with this person. Get them to agree to tell the alcoholic in a family meeting how much his drinking is hurting them. They can talk about how seeing that person in that condition hurts them and how the drinking affects their lives. Tell this person he must make changes. Get the alcoholic to make a commitment. You should have a trained professional help you lead or monitor the discussion. Once the person sees how much he is hurting his family he will hopefully want to change. The family needs to be very supportive and see him through the next few years. They will need to show much TLC but be firm with what must be done. Get professional help with this.
After he is off the alcohol bring in friends to help support the alcoholic and family. The person will now feel he has a security blanket. This program can and does work for some people. As I said earlier nutrition plays and important part. I have a three step plan to help restore health. First you must alkalize as I mentioned earlier.Our alkaline product also has collodial silver in it. To learn more about colloidal silver go to the link below that says collidal silver. Then you cleanse and then build. I feel in the case of an alcoholic cleansing should start after he is off the bottle and feeling some better. Then to build up the digestive system you will need to give him probiotics. To learn more about these subjects click on the links below.
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