We very often meet on the streets of our city drunken scruffy men with fragrances of not the first freshness, moreover, not only from the mouth. And much less often than women. It's because the woman tries to keep her illness from others till the last minute. However, she does not cease to be an alcoholic.
What is female alcoholism and what are its symptoms?
Have you ever heard of a woman's fracture of the hand? Or about female appendicitis? Or about the female flu? The society unfairly translates the dependence of women on alcohol into a separate category. This is due to our life's principles. If a man drinks every day, then he is sick, he needs to be treated, he needs to help and support. If a woman drinks, she is an outcast, she is shameless and irresponsible. In it you need to spit and turn away.
Signs of female alcoholism are slightly different from the male:
- at the initial stages alcohol dependence is manifested in the form of physiological attraction to alcoholic beverages. A constant desire not only to drink, but to unconsciousness. Then a heavy hangover - a stressed state, chills or fever, a desire to "undergo treatment";
- due to the constant use of alcohol, the personality of a woman changes on a psychological level - irritability, nervousness, rudeness appear in the behaviors. A woman is constantly depressed, often crying. As a result, loss of respect from relatives and colleagues;
- further - a decrease in intellectual performance, memory impairment, mental instability;
- at the last stage a woman can think of only one thing - where to get something to drink. And it does not matter what it will be - if only alcohol.
Stages of female alcoholism:
- high level of resistance to alcohol at the first stages of use;
- mental dependence on alcohol;
- physical attraction to drinking;
- hangover syndrome with each time is expressed more and more vividly;
- decrease in resistance to alcohol (reduces the amount drunk for intoxication to a minimum);
- fully developed alcohol dependence.
Features of female alcoholism
The main problem of women in drinking alcohol is a more rapid development of events. If the dependence of men can be developed within 7-10 years, then women get used twice faster. The female liver and pancreas begin to disintegrate much more often than in men. The cheeky behavior of a drunk woman and disregard for personal hygiene in such a state increases the chances of sexually transmitted diseases. Mental instability and a constant craving for alcohol do not let the woman realize that she needs to be treated. Irreversible violations of the brain function does not allow a woman to return to normal life, even after the complete elimination of alcoholism.
The harm of alcohol for a woman is simply obvious. And if you take into account that a woman, or a future mother, or already a mother. What kind of child will an alcoholic give birth to? What can a mother give to her child? And anyway, who wants to create coziness and life with a descended woman? Only the same alcoholic as she is.
Female alcoholism and its consequences:
- deterioration of appearance;
- numerous diseases of internal organs;
- inflammation of the genitourinary system;
- disruption of the normal functioning of the nervous system;
- loss of immunity;
- loss of work;
- the collapse of the family.
And this is only a small part of the series, which demonstrates the effect of alcohol on the woman's body. The use of alcohol during pregnancy and lactation should be highlighted as a separate problem.