I’m wondering what the best, healthiest, and most comfotable way to detox from alcohol. I know people will say go to AA and I have/to but am not yet comfortable asking such a question in a meeting.

When we’re tired we get irritable and stressed; and it’s far easier to give into temptation in a moment of weakness. Clinical research supports what logic tells us, and sleeping problems are significantly correlated with greater rate of relapse.

Why we get insomnia during long term alcohol withdrawal

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How come some people become alcoholics and others do not? The people could have the exact same upbringing, drink the same amount, be the same nationality or even in the same family. There is not a definitive answer as to why alcoholics become alcoholics. There are almost as many theories as there are alcoholics. With alcohol abuse, it usually is a series of pressures combined that pushes a casual drinker over the edge into addiction.

Nature Or Nurture?

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After developing anxiety a few years ago, I found that drinking (or the morning after) always left me with severe panic attacks. I have no desire to get drunk, but to this day I am still scared to have more than a beer or two. How do I know if my body will react the same as it did when I had panic attacks due to alcohol?

I’ve been sober for three months straight. I’m only 17 years old but I had a long standing problem with prescription pills and alcohol. I had these group of friends who also dabbled in drugs and alcohol. I completely cut them off and got angry with one (we got into an argument).

My parents divorced when I was three years old. My Mother came in and out of my life. She had a problem with self medication and alcohol. My Dad and I moved to another state and I befriended this guy. We were very close friends until he just disappears out of no where (we stopped talking).

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My mum is 52 and for about the last 8 years she has been drinking heavily, i personally think she has all the symptoms of depression and is foolishly self medicating with the alcohol (which we all know will make things worse as alcohol is a depressant) She insists that she is just fed up with life at the moment, not depressed, but for at least the last 6months she has been crying every day. I went to the doctors with her last week to try to get them to help in any way they could but they have blamed everything on her drinking. Yes she is a heavy drinker and yes she has in the past had problems with it. But i dont know of an alcoholic who can just give up on a whim and have no ill effects. She quite frequently will stop for weeks but thats coz she wants to not because she has to. Do you think anti depressants could be an option? If she were to have a couple of cans of larger would she suffer any bad effects?
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Im in England

I know alcohol dilates the blood vessels etc negatively effecting erection but just how much of it does that? I mean a few beers might help relieve stress and improve the mood. Most ED cases are psychological so in this case wouldn’t alcohol logically help by improving state of mind?

Alcohol addiction is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions. While the ingestion of alcohol is necessary to develop alcoholism, the use of alcohol does not necessarily result in addiction. The quantity, frequency and regularity of alcohol consumption combined with the ramifications of financial loss, family disruption, loss of employment and health problems all contribute to the definition.

Contrary to what you may have heard alcohol addiction is not an incurable brain disease. In fact, it is not a disease at all! But, for decades people have believed that alcohol addiction is a disease. Most psychologists, counselors and specialists today still believe that alcohol addiction is an incurable disease that must be “managed” for a lifetime, and that “there is no cure”
However, it’s not a genetically predisposed disease that is handed down through faulty genes.

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If you are suffering from alcohol withdrawal symptoms while trying to kick your habit, making some dietary changes can also help you during this process. These changes may sound pretty common sense but they are nonetheless important, so that you can truly become alcohol free and be put back in good health.

Alcohol withdrawal symptoms include the following: trembling or shaking, various physical reactions, anxiety, insomnia and mental disturbances. This happens especially when you go cold turkey; that is you stop your habit of taking in large amounts of alcohol all of a sudden. Since your brain has already been used to the chemicals that come from your daily consumption of alcohol, withdrawing from alcohol can cause the said symptoms.

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I feel helpless, and don’t know what to expect. He is going on his second day of no alcohol