Alcohol & Hepatitis
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Anger and Alcoholism - not a good combination!
Alcoholics who get angry alienate whoever is on the receiving end of their aggressive behaviour and those who witness it. During their alcoholic lives most drinkers succeed in losing friends, alienating their partners and children to some degree, because excessive drinking is frequently accompanied by either or both physical and verbal abuse while the alcoholic is angry.
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Autoimmune Hepatitis
Liver disease is serious and requires treatment and regular monitoring by a liver specialist. A liver specialist is known as...
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Acceptance by the Alcoholic
One of the greatest hurdles that an alcoholic has to jump is to accept the fact that he or she is an alcoholic. The second hurdle, which follows immediately, is to accept the fact this this means that the remainder of life must be lived without the prop of alcohol.
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Some Days are Diamonds and Some Days are Stone for the Recovering Alcoholic!
What I’m going to outline here is designed to increase the rate of success in dealing with problems encountered by alcoholics. However, no matter how calm they remain, how clearly they think about the problem and how assertive they are, they will sometimes not succeed. No-one in this world succeeds all the time.
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Living in the Past – Guilt and Resentment
Recovery from alcoholism is a day-to-day process, starting with the final drink. It occurs in the present with some planning for the future. In our analysis of failure to cope, guilt belongs with the negative emotions that lead to failure.
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Stress and the recovering alcoholic
The alcoholic needs to identify hot buttons that will lead him or her back to the bottle. Negative environmental events, which have been labelled as triggers, need to be observed and dealt with in a proactive way. Don’t walk where it’s slippery!
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Case Studies
A legacy of alcohol and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Theresa is a recovered alcoholic with 28 years sobriety. Hard work, lots of AA meetings and a desire to succeed in sobriety and her career, aspired Theresa to be a high achiever, in spite of her dysfunctional and violent childhood living with two alcoholic parents.
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What is an Alcoholic Blackout?
Alcohol has a direct effect on brain cells, resulting in poor judgement, difficulty making decisions (procrastination) and lack of insight. Nutrition problems which often accompany long-time alcohol abuse can be another contributing factor, since parts of the brain may be damaged by vitamin deficiencies.
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Is your partner in denial about how much they drink?
Denial involves self-deception. Whenever an individual knows deep down that she or he has made a mess of things, they...
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Someone owes me a childhood
“Someone owes me a childhood” said the adult child of an alcoholic. One of the most important factors in relationships...
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