Living with a person addicted to alcohol can be really hard and can effectively disrupt the peace of your home. The first and at the same time a milestone that a person in the trap of addiction should take is to sign up for alcohol withdrawal. However, it is worth knowing that addiction treatment is a multi-stage process that requires a lot of patience from both the patient and their loved ones. So how do you deal with an alcoholic in rehab?
Acceptance
The first step that a person with a loved one in rehab should take is to understand that alcoholism is a disease and accept this fact. Alcohol addiction, like many other addictions, has its roots deep in the psyche and results from many environmental conditions. Usually, the patient drinks at first to mask certain problems or feelings, and then is unable to stop. It may turn out that addiction therapy will be a process that will alternately be filled with failures and successes, and the alcoholic will experience improvements and worsening of their condition, and will often also doubt the success and success of treatment. For this reason, it is very important for people around the addict to be aware that addiction is a disease, and therapy is a very important element of complex treatment - for this reason, success should not always be expected, and the patient may experience doubts and worse moments.
Independence
People around alcoholics often fall into the trap of co-dependency themselves, because they obsessively try to protect and understand their loved ones, for whom alcohol is the most important thing. This is a mistake, because by controlling and imposing restrictions on alcoholics, they are actually provoking them to drink even more, and attempts to talk them into reason and dissuade them from how alcohol has a negative impact on marital life or family are ineffective, especially when the addiction is already at a significant stage of advancement. For this reason, the best thing that loved ones can do for an addict is not to restrict their freedom and leave them independent, at least to some extent. It should be remembered that alcohol detox should always be a voluntary decision of the alcoholic and to a large extent it is he who decides on the course of treatment itself.
Interest
Treatment of alcoholism is a multi-stage and difficult process, and the alcoholic will very often feel extremely lonely. For this reason, it is extremely important for people around the patient to be interested in the course of treatment and to obtain regular information about the alcoholic's health and to try to be supportive to the addict at every stage of detox. Contrary to what many co-dependents think, protecting and caring for an addict does not consist in hiding bottles or explaining their various behaviors in many ways. Being supportive to an alcoholic should be based on the awareness of the fact that addiction is a disease and that the addicted person should make their own decisions about starting treatment, but also about its subsequent stages.
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