What is Alcoholic Consciousness?

Alcohol consciousness is one of the most important signs of alcoholism. It can be called both the cause and the consequence of this disease. The alcoholic consciousness is concluded in the conviction of the chevek that it is impossible to live without alcohol. The importance of alcohol for such a person is too exaggerated, often it turns into the meaning of life. All thoughts of a person with alcohol consciousness are occupied with the problem of how to get alcohol, where and with whom to drink. Another characteristic feature of alcohol consciousness is the complete denial of the problem and the inability to adequately assess its condition. That is why people with alcoholic consciousness suppress all attempts of relatives and relatives to help in the fight against addiction from alcohol. They just do not see this as a problem and often deny having a disease.
Meanwhile, alcohol consciousness completely subordinates a person. He spends a lot of effort to learn how to control the amount of drink (but, as a rule, unsuccessfully) to gain access to alcohol and justify his drunkenness. Many alcoholics themselves compare this state with amnesia: alcohol consciousness makes you forget everything that was important for a person - family, work, hobbies. A person with alcoholism seems to look at the world around him through a crooked mirror that distorts both reality and the person himself.
Alcohol consciousness becomes the cause of psychological dependence on alcohol, which along with chemical dependence and constitute the essence of alcoholism.
Often alcohol consciousness can acquire a latent form and manifest even after prolonged abstinence from alcohol. That's why there are no former alcoholics, and even after twenty years of giving up alcohol, a person can break from the first glass. And to get a chance to soberly look at yourself and understand the essence of the problem, a person with alcoholism needs to live at least two years without alcohol. This applies to those who suffer from beer alcoholism, since the mechanism of the development of the disease is the same.
It is important to know that the treatment of alcoholism is aimed at eliminating both chemical and mental dependence on alcohol. For this, both medicamental and psychotherapeutic agents are used. Psychotherapy is aimed primarily at ensuring that a person suffering from alcohol dependence can soberly assess their situation and realize the scale of the problem. Only after this, effective treatment is possible, which will help to refrain from alcohol in the future.