It is a misconception that drinking alcohol is a habit but it is not a habit but a disease. Anytime you do something beneficial that you do over and over again and it has become second nature to you, it is called a habit. A habit is always something that we want to do or do or wait to do and doing it will benefit us. Alcoholism is classified as a disease by the American Medical Association and the American Society of Addiction Medicine, along with diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Alcoholism is a combination of bad habits, environment and biological factors. This disease occurs when there is a change in the functioning of the mind and body. People feel great when their basic needs such as hunger and thirst are satisfied, but in some cases we feel happy when certain chemicals are released from our brain.
Iqra Tariq is serving as a psychologist at Sadaqat Clinic. He completed his MSc in Applied Psychology from Lahore Garrison University and his graduation from Defense Degree College, Lahore. He has worked with autistic children, ADHD, ADHD and mentally retarded children at Turning Point. She has participated in workshops on occupational therapy, stress management, autism, art therapy, positive psychology and mental disorders. At Lahore General Hospital, she trained to work with anxiety, depression and conversion patients under the supervision of Asma Gul and has also been attending classes on various psychiatric disorders. She specializes in relaxation exercises and counseling. She has worked with drug and schizophrenia patients at Pakistan Institute of Mental Health, Lahore.
In the same way, when we drink alcohol, these same chemicals are released in large quantities that are associated with feelings of pleasure or reward, and because of the excessive feelings of pleasure, our interest in the daily activities of life slows down. It slows down and these changes in the brain can last a long time, even after you stop drinking. Blood pressure is a disease but we can improve this disease by abstaining. The addict uses drugs only because of the misconception that he can quit when he wants. While he does not know that by continuing to use drugs, his disease will increase. Addiction is like termite-infested wood. Which increases if care is not taken. Addiction can only be cured if you treat it as a disease it is understood that if no precautions are taken in the disease of addiction like diabetes, it increases gradually, persists for a long time and can prove to be fatal. And besides, people of any age can be affected by this disease whether it is in youth or old age.
However, no treatment has yet been invented to eradicate it. Like diabetes, this disease also involves dieting and avoiding certain foods. For example, diabetics cannot consume sweets. Similarly, addicts cannot use drugs because their body does not allow them to use drugs, nor can the patient be made capable of using drugs. Be in old age. However, no treatment has yet been invented to eradicate it. Like diabetes, this disease also involves dieting and avoiding certain foods. For example, diabetics cannot consume sweets. Similarly, addicts cannot use drugs because their body does not allow them to use drugs, nor can the patient be made capable of using drugs. Be in old age. However, no treatment has yet been invented to eradicate it. Like diabetes, this disease also involves dieting and avoiding certain foods. For example, diabetics cannot consume sweets. Similarly, addicts cannot use drugs because their body does not allow them to use drugs, nor can the patient be made capable of using drugs.
There are four characteristics of the disease of addiction:
We cannot say that the disease of addiction is due to heart, liver or any other disease. In fact, the reason for this is that the system of dealing with addiction in the patient’s body has become ineffective. Addiction is chronic, it means that after treatment we cannot make the patient to be able to do normal or reduced amount of addiction because the damage caused in the body is like termite infested wood but with good lifestyle. Wood can be protected from further termite infestation. The disease of addiction gets worse with the passage of time, just like if a diabetic patient does not avoid sweets, his disease gets worse. Addiction can be life-threatening as accidents and suicides are common among addicts. It is surprising that even when patients stop using drugs, the disease continues to progress. If a patient starts to feel better after some time of abstinence, it does not necessarily mean that he can start addiction again.
Many people believe that an addict becomes a patient on purpose. Because it is their will to do drugs and this will stays with them all their life and they never want to give up drugs. But it should be kept in mind that the beginning of addiction is the same but the end is different. Many patients use drugs to get rid of suffering, for example, they use drugs as drugs to reduce physical pain, and these physical pains are caused by the lack of drugs. Lose control over usage. That is, they do not have control over the amount, use, time and place of drugs and they continue to take drugs regardless of them. Many people believe that alcoholism is not a disease but a choice because people choose it. Choose from Yes, the first time you drink alcohol, it may involve your will, but it does not necessarily mean that he willfully wants to become an alcoholic or a drunkard.
Science has revealed that certain genes contribute to diseases such as diabetes. For example, a person who eats sugar does not intend to go ahead Becoming a diabetic is the same way any alcoholic when he first drinks alcohol does not think that he will go ahead and become an alcoholic, but slowly his body begins to undergo changes that he does not know. When a person drinks alcohol for the first time, there are places in his brain for alcohol and they increase with the consumption of alcohol. A normal person has the power to remove this place, but in a person who has a hereditary deficiency, the game of removing this “place of addiction” is very slow, thanks to which the “place of addiction” in his mind. They start increasing in number, and then they meet each other, then this drunken place says that we want alcohol. Which he doesn’t know. When a person drinks alcohol for the first time, there are places in his brain for alcohol and they increase with the consumption of alcohol.
A normal person has the power to remove this place, but in a person who has a hereditary deficiency, the game of removing this “place of addiction” is very slow, thanks to which the “place of addiction” in his mind. They start increasing in number, and then they meet each other, then this drunken place says that we want alcohol. Which he doesn’t know. When a person drinks alcohol for the first time, there are places in his brain for alcohol and they increase with the consumption of alcohol. A normal person has the power to remove this place, but in a person who has a hereditary deficiency, the game of removing this “place of addiction” is very slow, thanks to which the “place of addiction” in his mind. They start increasing in number, and then they meet each other, then this drunken place says that we want alcohol.
In any situation, fulfill my demand “Eid Ai Hai Eidi Chahad” and this is Eid wine and then you don’t have to worry about your financial condition, health, if someone is sick or worried in your house. At that time only demand has to be met. It is a physical disorder that occurs spontaneously in the body of 10 percent of alcoholics. Alcoholics do not know what is changing in their body and when the biology changes like high cholesterol, uncontrolled sugar like high blood pressure. There is a system for all of them and if our body does not have the corresponding system, we cannot digest that thing. For example, we cannot eat grass because our body does not have a system to deal with grass. Similarly, goats are not meat. Can eat because their body does not have a system to deal with meat. But our body has a system to deal with alcohol and Whigs are not proud to be drunk, but they are proud to be conscious of drinking.
This means that it is not something that people do on purpose. When a person’s brain starts to change, many experts believe that a person starts to lose control over their habits and any disease, whether it is diabetes or heart disease, includes our diet. And there is a lot of exercise. In the same way, this disease is also the result of such a choice. In the disease of alcoholism, our brain begins to work exactly like the pancreas in the disease of diabetes.
Q) How do I know if I am an alcoholic?
For that you need to ask this question. The first question is whether your family or friends have told you that you are drinking too much and need to cut down. Another question is, when people tell you that you should cut down on alcohol, do you get angry and say, “Dude, I drink on my own money, what’s your problem?” The third thing is that after drinking alcohol, it feels like drinking too much and feeling embarrassed.
You need alcohol to start the day, you wake up in the morning, shaking hands and feet, unable to concentrate. Drink, feel good and start the day. If the answers to these questions are yes, then your drinking is not without risk. Some people think that if it is a disease, then I am not responsible for it. If we have any disease, we have to get treatment. This illness does not mean that my responsibility is over, rather I should think that my responsibility has just begun. Alcoholism is not the problem, but staying sober is the problem, and Alcoholics Anonymous is a program to stay sober that has three million sober members worldwide and more than forty thousand sober members in their own country. . Under this program, people suffering from this addiction have been able to get out. The only desire in your mind is that I should abstain from alcohol.