When it's time to throw a drink?

Every Friday I'm in the shit, and every Monday I have a cucumber. Semen Slepakov

Of course, everyone knows that it is better to quit drinking completely, but rarely does it. Where is the fine line between a healthy person who uses alcoholAnd an alcoholic who thinks he is a healthy man?

A bit of drunkenness without alcohol

So, in the evening on a weekday friend called you to drink a glass of beer in your favorite bar, a friend calls to guests and takes the wine after work to de-stress you drink a cup of coffee, fairly charged cognac. It's about you?

It - episodic drinking

You can not even tell you how often you drink, because it is very irregular, and you can not say exactly how much to drink to get drunk, because it depends. If you have touched, in the morning it will be bad, but thinking about alcohol in this state cause you nausea.

It is too early to worry if your episodes are repeated too often.

Another type - a ritual drunkenness

It boasts every second. Family or public holidays traditionally cope with alcohol, and you do not give up alcohol. Very fun to plan all along, that you will eat and drink, buy all of this, then sit down at the table and, in fact, to celebrate. On other days you do not touch alcohol.

It is also not very scary, but considered only the major holidays, rather than the International Day of KVN or the day of the journalist in China (of course, if you do not KVNschik not Chinese journalist).

And then we got to the first dangerous levels of drinking - the usual

If you can drink with the reason (well, of course!) Or without it, or an occasion for you to become completely any event, such as stress at work, or even just getting back from work.

This does not mean that you do every day to log nazhiratsya state, but drink very often. Sometimes you can not drink (so that you may think that you are not an alcoholic and does not depend on this), but these periods of sobriety are becoming rarer.

Attention! If you drink 2 times a week consistentlyAnd sometimes more, this is it. For habitual drunkenness relentlessly follows the first stage of alcoholism, and in the body, in the meantime, here's what happens.

As a body gets used to Buchloe

Gradually imbalance in the brain chemicals: gamma-aminobutyric acid, glutamate and dopamine hormone. The first substance is responsible for the impulsivity, the second - for the stimulation of the nervous system, and in general for dopamine pleasureThat decides.

The metabolism of this hormone in the pleasure and reward centers of the centers varies, so you will not receive pleasure from simple things that are not pleasing to alcoholics.

Of course, all is not as critical as in advanced cases, when the pleasure and in general a normal life just unthinkable without the alcohol, but the degree of joy from meeting with friends, festive events and all the rest without much alcohol decreases.

When the body has become accustomed

When drinking alcohol becomes easy, do not need any event, to drink, you can do it just like that. Freshen the nip does not want to, but you can make yourself. For example, if you need to go to work, and you are very bad, or Saturday morning or on Sunday.

And here are a few signs that you can call yourself an alcoholic is not a joke:

1. One also not bad to drink, and no matter what - beer or vodka in front of the TV, because it is sad and at work got.
2. I want to drink, just like that.
3. You do not know how to control yourself - drink to cut, and then friends drag you home.
4. Memory losses. Large tracts of dead neurons in the brain carry with them into oblivion the memory of yesterday's fun.
5. It has its own, special rituals - to walk after work with a beer bottle with your favorite music in the player, on Friday to celebrate a liter of vodka or something else such as a regular.
6. You score a lot on that. Favorite activity disappear, there is simply no more interest in doing something that always brought pleasure, for example, engage in sports or airplanes glue.
7. More quarrels with relatives and friends. You besites for nothing, and constantly with someone at loggerheads.

In fact, you're not alone in his lung alcoholism, a lot of people staying at this stage, may remain for a long time on it, or quit altogether.

But how much time passes before the first stage enters the third (Standard alcoholic, about which no one doubts)?

It depends on your state of nature, health and gender. Maybe five to seven years, maybe a few months. If there are some problems: broken heart, Trouble at work, missing inspiration, many are comforted by a familiar way already, and this is really dangerous.

Which exit? Throw all.

The first stage of alcoholism, you can check this: try not to drink for three months.

Many people think that it is simple, but very few people cope. In the end, in the three months your body will recover, will once again produce as much dopamine as you need to buzz without booze. Who knows, maybe then you just do not want to start again?