Alcohol Abuse Advice

The term ‘Alcoholism’ conveys several glimpses of such people who are either addicted to alcohol or have a tendency to become alcoholic. Alcoholism has become a major public health issue around the globe. Within USA, approximately 18 million people are suffering from alcoholism. Several factors endorse people to turn to excessive alcohol intake and these are mostly psychological ones. If someone hears such a sentence ‘Oh my God, he has turned alcoholic’ the foremost thing, which comes in mind is that the person might be suffering from a mental or psychological trauma. Turning to alcoholism can be situational or habitual depending upon the environment and circumstances a person is living. The reasons vary from place to place depending upon the social, cultural and religious systems.

The general psychological factors in which all societies can easily fit in include family problems such as a contravened relationship of a couple due to a failure of intimate physical and mental bondage. Parents’ bad relationships usually strike children psyche by large as for them they are the source of inspiration in every walk of life. Especially, for teenagers who see parents quarrelling and fighting all the time and may be not staying together can raise many psychological disorders and such youngsters search for hideouts to flee from their depressed home environment and choose alcohol as a means of escape from the bitter reality.

Sometimes it also happens that the behavior of father or mother or may be both to children is not good. The reason could be bad grades in school, overall habits of the child or his activities and friends. This kind of parents/children relationship has a devastating impact on a child’s psychology where such rancid relationship develops many mental and psychological disorders among children especially children of 10 to 15 years. These children in order to disregard and rebel against their parents and show them their hatred, opt for drinking and smoking. In some cases it has also be seen that if both the parents consume alcohol the children follow them just by default.

It is also witnessed that the teenager starts drinking just for fun or just to socialize. Even some of them want to explore what alcohol is all about. A male teen’s psyche sometimes works in such a manner that they begin to feel that if they start smoking or consuming alcohol or drugs, these things will make them more mature and more confident. They will be popular among girls around them and have a say in their friends groups.

The pain and anguish due to the failure of relationships during adolescent and at any point in time leads to a post-traumatic situation that bring such people to start with heavy consumption of alcohol. This pertains to either sex. Furthermore, once women who are frayed due to an end or failure of an intimate relationship go for heavy boozing or a physical abuse left them to the mercy of alcohol. Similarly, guilt, insecurities, unemployment or loss of job, disappointments and feeling of shame and fear of humiliation on any kind of loss lead to consumption of alcohol.

Such people certainly need help en masse. For that matter, the family of the alcoholics should co-operative, support them in their bad times, and try to bring them out from such a swamp, which can one day doom them to disaster.

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