Alcohol is only a symptom of the disease alcoholism. You can take the alcohol out of alcoholism but what is left is the “ism” part of this disease. The ism is why we drank, the ism is what feeds the inner committee chaos and the ism keeps us uncomfortable and acting out in an ...
Short-acting benzodiazepines (i.e., lorazepam, oxazepam) are typically used in a symptom-triggered capacity, in response to the severity of withdrawal. The downside of this approach is that it requires frequent patient assessment, and many of the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal (i.e., agitation...
I have not been to a doctor but I know I drink too much and am beginning to worry. I have been reading up on cirrhosis and found that itching is a symptom and I do have that. Every once and a while I do have some pain on my right side. My question is if I take this ALA ,...
Among the 595 NESARC respondents whose worst episode was in last 12 months, the correlation between number of depressive symptoms and the impairment scale was 0.50 (P<.001), indicating a strong but not redundant relationship between symptom and impairment severity. The MDD and anxiety diagnoses in...
It was that, that was their alcoholism, not the symptom, the drinking of alcohol. It was revelatory. There could be something done about this without simply whiteknuckling it! There was a reason for drinking that wasn’t just craving? In fact, in some cases, the craving must have been ...
argue that it is important to document both commercial activities and the socio-economic-political conditions in which they operate as business operations are a symptom of the regulatory environment [154]. A limitation of this case study was that no industry representatives were interviewed. However,...
Having been encouraged to see the voice, not as an experience, but as a symptom – my fear and resistance towards it intensified. Now essentially this represented taking an aggressive stance towards my own mind – a kind of psychic civil war, and in turn this caused the number of voices ...
Jackson was found dead Monday at a hotel in Brandon. “We got the autopsy report back that will be released today,” Chronister said. “Unfortunately he suffered from chronic alcoholism. It’s just tragic.” Chronister, however, was not ready to say alcohol directly caused Jackson to pass...
Alcoholism, is a progressive illness involving excessive ingestion of alcohol. Alcoholism, as opposed to merely excessive or irresponsible drinking has been variously thought of as a symptom of psychological o social stress or as a learned behavior. More recently it has come to be viewed as a ...
“stuff” is still there and needs dealing with. That’s why I say the alcohol feels irrelevant. It’s not a part of my life and I’m tremendously happy about that, but it was only a symptom, a reaction to other things, and unless I deal with those other things, alcohol and ...