Are you addicted to alcohol? Or is someone you love being troubled by it? Do you have problems caused due to alcohol everywhere, all around you, and the problem doesn’t seem to end? This is what you need to do to get rid of this addiction that has taken over your life.
Here are 6 ways to help you get over your alcohol addiction and get your life back on track:
1.Find out the root cause of the problem
The reason that you are addicted to alcohol1 may not be regularly drinking alone, but it could also be something you do to reduce stress2, depression3, or anxiety4 in your life. You may feel that drinking alcohol would reduce your pain, but the truth is it will make your life much more miserable.
A bad phase, a lost job, a broken relationship, or any personal issue, maybe the root cause of drinking. There are other ways to deal with such problems.
Alcohol is NEVER the solution.
2.Spend more time with your family and your loved ones
Your family and your peers are those people who support you and want you to progress in life. Spend more time with those who want you to come out of this dilemma you live in. Being busy with your well-wishers will make you want to do better in life and avoid negative company. The more time you spend with the people who care for you, the faster you will recover.
3.Change your Lifestyle
Make a daily schedule: wake up early, go jogging, and eat healthy food. Invest your time in everything that makes you physically, mentally, and emotionally strong. Change is a slow process but an eventual one.
Here is a little tip for you. If you want to make an activity take, for example, workout, then do it for 21 days to make it a habit and do it for 90 days to make it your lifestyle.
4. Listen to your instinct
Your instinct says NO. Deep inside, you want to stop drinking; listen to yourself! If you have come this far, you will definitely win over this problem.
Be independent of all the people who provoke you to drink, and your instinct will tell you that. LISTEN to your instinct and APPLY it to your life.
5.Use alternative ways to cope
Replace your old bad habits with new good ones. Slowly you will start enjoying the things you lost interest in, like thinking about your career or enjoying coffee instead of a glass of wine, and even remembering your mother’s birthday. Start yoga and meditation exercises: it will help you stabilize your emotions and negate your feelings within yourself.
If you drink every evening or every night, you can start doing something else around that time. Maybe engross yourself in an engaging novel. KEEP YOURSELF BUSY!
6.Reduce drinking
You know it is hampering your life; start with reduction initially. If you drink regularly, every night, change this by drinking twice or thrice a week. Next step, you can reduce the quantity you take in.
When you look back, you will see the number of days you actually have managed to go without alcohol. If you can go for a day without it, believe me, it proves that you don’t need it at all.
These are the few steps you need to APPLY in your LIFE, and gradually, you will see yourself doing so much better. Keep moving forward, it may take time, but every step you take brings you closer to your goal. Believe in yourself and never lose hope. I believe in YOU.
- Dupuy, M., and S. Chanraud. “Imaging the addicted brain: alcohol.” International review of neurobiology 129 (2016): 1-31. ↩︎
- Pearlin, Leonard I. “The sociological study of stress.” Journal of health and social behavior (1989): 241-256. ↩︎
- Klerman, Gerald L., and Myrna M. Weissman. “Increasing rates of depression.” Jama 261.15 (1989): 2229-2235. ↩︎
- Klein, Donald F. “Anxiety reconceptualized.” Anxiety: New research and changing concepts (1981): 235-263. ↩︎
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