Alcohol & Hepatitis

Alcohol & Hepatitis

We are what we think we are!

If we are going to change our habit of reaching for the bottle every time we feel sad, mad or...

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How Alcoholics Upset Themselves in Early Recovery

Emotional upsets are caused by the way we talk to ourselves about our problems. It is our perceptions and thoughts...

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High alcohol consumption increases the risk of cancer

Most people are not aware that drinking alcohol raises the risk of cancer, or they choose to disbelieve it because they enjoy drinking. Long term moderate to high alcohol consumption raises the risk of cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, stomach, liver, colon, pancreas, rectum, skin and breast. The main way alcohol increases cancer risk is via acetaldehyde. This is a toxic compound produced when your body breaks down alcohol. As your liver metabolises alcohol, it is initially converted into acetaldehyde, which is actually more toxic than alcohol. Acetaldehyde can cause oxidative damage to nearly any organ or tissue in the body.

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Irrational Ideas that Cause the Alcoholic Emotional Distress

Alcoholism is an emotional disease coupled with a physical allergy to alcohol. Emotions that lead to alcohol dependency to alleviate...

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Types of Self-Defeating Learned Behaviors in the Alcoholic

Getting sober is easy but staying sober is hard because alcoholics have so many handicaps to address in their early...

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Video | Hepatitis Fighting It Naturally

Spend 10 minutes with Dr Sandra Cabot and Naturopath Christine Ki as they discuss how to fight hepatitis naturally. Dr Cabot...

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Alcohol and Stage 2 Recovery

“I thought everything would be great when my husband stopped drinking. The truth is, we seem farther apart now than...

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Alcohol and Depression

Neurotransmitters are the natural chemicals that facilitate communication between brain cells. These substances govern our emotions, memory, moods, behaviour, sleep and learning abilities. Neurotransmitters are manufactured in the brain from the amino acids we extract from foods and their supply is entirely dependent on the presence of these precursor amino acids. Alcohol destroys these essential precursor amino acids which is probably why alcoholics seem so emotionally muddled and depressed. Without adequate amino acid conversion, neurotransmitters are no longer produced in sufficient amounts; this deficiency causes ‘emotional’ symptoms, including depression.

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Anxiety, Alcohol and Failure to Cope

An alcoholic’s inability to cope manifests in excessive anxiety, low self-esteem, a low level of confidence, poor problem-solving, a high level of co-dependency and a low level of assertiveness are linked in this failure to cope cycle. In my counselling alcoholics, it is clear that initially almost all believe that it is impossible to control anxiety because it is a ‘natural emotion’ and ‘we are born with it and can’t change it’. A favorite saying is some variation of: ‘I’m anxious, my mother was anxious and her mother was anxious. How can I change that?’ These statements are usually based upon the failure to distinguish between fear and anxiety. Fear is a natural emotion and it is adaptive. If we are being attacked by someone with an axe or a hammer, it is sensible and adaptive to be afraid. We are born with the capacity to become afraid because this fear releases adrenalin, enables us to run faster or makes us stronger if we decide to fight.

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The frustration of living with an alcoholic

The disease of alcoholism can be analysed in terms of mood or feeling swings. Alcoholism becomes evident when the swing back of mood following drinking takes the drinker back beyond the zero point. At this time, larger and larger amounts of alcohol are necessary to enable the alcoholic to reach the euphoric stage where the world looks terrific and where anything can be fixed. As the drinking increases, defence mechanisms such as rationalisation, projection

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