What are the main effects of alcoholism? How does it affect the person and the people around them? Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge their problem and start to treat their problem? What can other people do to help?
Kevin (Noon)
Monday, April 09, 2012
Alcoholism and it's effects
What are the main effects of alcoholism? How does it affect the person and the people around them? Why is it so hard for people to acknowledge their problem and start to treat their problem? What can other people do to help?
Kevin (Noon)
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I do know someone close to me who is an alcoholic and every time myself or someone tries to talk to them, they in face get defensive. It's hard to approach this problem because in your mind all you want to do is to help them, but at the same time you get frustrated because you don't understand how they can't see their own problem. Personally, I only bring up the issue when I'm alone with the person, and I do it very casually. I'll bring up going out maybe and then talk about having a sober night instead of drinking the night away. Knowing someone like this is also hard because numerous times they deny it. The person I know lies constantly about how much they drink and how often they drink. Everyone knows the truth behind the lies though.
Main effects of alcohol deal with the brain--which obviously is a big deal. Alcohol can cause blackouts, memory lapses, blurred vision, speech impairments, slow reaction times; all dealing with the brain. You're brain is the control system for your body, so if you are abusing alcohol, you are abusing your body. Your liver also suffers from extreme drinking and you can also develop long term and permanent damage to your brain. If the person is a mean drunk, it would affect the other people around them because no one wants to deal with that when everyone else is just trying to have fun. Unfortunately, some people might encourage it if the person is a 'fun' drunk and is just stupid. People sometimes would then laugh with the person and encourage it so the person will get drunk every time because they feel liked and welcomed. I think it's hard for people to acknowledge their problem because they may associate being an alcoholic to a stereotypical drunk; a bum who sits at home everyday, no job, family problems, etc. They don't want to be classified in that group and may not want to start treatment because they don't want to be around people like that.
Bryanna
I do know someone who is, i have tried to talk to this person but they don't see it. I don't want to lose this friend but some times i think if i don't say something i will lose them to alcoholism.
I know one effect it has had on this persons life, their family do-sent want to be around them. They also don't trust them to baby sit their children.
I think it is hard for a person to change becaus for some they have been this way for so long. They have to want to be sober, for themselves, not for anyone else. It is a hard road, many are probably scared that they cant do it. Another thing is they think what will they do if they don't drink? Think about it that's a lot of time used up drinking.
I am going to still try to help my friend, they have actually slowed down to some extent. I hope with encouragement they will eventually stop!
pa
If a person was close to me, and they were defensive regarding their ‘alcoholic’ status, I would do something about it. There is help available, but the first step would be to overcome their objection about their drinking problem. This isn’t the easiest thing to do in the world, but if you truly care about someone, you are willing to do what it takes to get them help. Educating the person on the risks would certainly be a good idea.
The main effects of alcoholism are certainly evident in today’s world. Alcohol is a drug, and like any other drug that exists, there will always be addiction problems. When someone is reliant on a drug, it causes them to act differently than they usually would. Lacks of social interaction, not being able to maintain a job etc are all common signs of drug abuse. The problem is not usually diagnosed and treated until a family member or friend steps up, or the person commits a crime to facilitate their need and ends up in the judicial system.
In my opinion, it’s hard for a person to admit they have a problem because they are so comfortable with their current lifestyle. It’s easier to maintain your ways than to break a habit. This could certainly be fixed via proper education on drug abuse and by increasing alcohol prices past their current amounts.
Zach Daniels
Honestly? You have to wait it out most of the time. Let them know that you'll be there for them when they're ready to stop. Offer to do activities with them that won't involve drinking, and to be around them right after they stop. Trying to make them stop by force with anything less than a full intervention will often prove futile, and just make them resent you or feel guilty - both feelings which they're more likely drink to avoid than try to talk out. It can be difficult to watch someone destroy themselves and very tempting to offer up an ultimatum, something like 'I won't talk to you for a month if you drink anything tomorrow', but you have to understand that alcoholism truly is an illness. It's not something that can be controlled so easily. Make sure they know that you care about them and don't want them to hurt themself or anyone else. When they hit rock bottom, be there to offer a helping hand and don't judge them.
Effects of alcoholism? The effects of alcoholism are physical, pschological, and economic. These are the most important because these can cause your death. For example, alcoholism causes cancer in the stomach, kidneys, and liver. Besides, alcohol alters the digestion of nutrients that the body needs to stay healthy. Alcoholism also causes severe damage in the neurons, so it causes alterations in the body movements, loss of appetite, and depression. There are other effects in the body like gastritis and cirrhosis of the liver. All these physical consequences could cause your death if you drink alcohol in mass quantities. Alcohol alters your brain, muscles, digestion process, and other disorders that affect your health. It also can cause you depression or changes in your behavior that result in problems with your family, friends, and with yourself. Besides, it will leave you in poverty because it cost a lot.
Shane Rasor
I would pursue the problem because they obviously have a problem. I wouldn't mind how defensive they got just because your trying to help them out and of course its always gonna get worst before it gets better. I wouldn't stop bringing it up the topic of them being a drunk until he or she got the help, they would seriously need.
I think the main effect of alcoholism is depression. People who drink are messing up their brain, liver, and, heart. Also if you have to much alcohol it can cause you to either blackout, have memory lapses, speech impairment, slow reaction time, and have blurry vision. The way alcohol affect the people around is it can make people not feel safe around them by either them thinking that they are going hit you or just gonna hurt you emotionally.
It is hard for people to realize the problem they have because no one wants to be called a "drunk" or an "alcoholic". They want to feel like they don't have a problem at all. Also people think they can get help by themselves and that they don't need anyone advice or help. The only way they can help is if they have true friends they will help them get through the tough times and get them the serious help they need.
Kyle Ogle (Noon)
I myself know someone that is an alcoholic, and they deny that they are. It’s hard to approach a problem to someone when they don’t want to admit they have one. It’s not only hurting that person, but the people around them. It affects everything they do. It sometimes gets in the way of their daily activates or has to be a part of them. I personally stopped bringing up the problem because they only got mad. When a person has this problem is puts stress on everyone. I think the main reason or one reason why people drink is due to their own problems that they don’t know how to deal with unless they are in the drunken state of mind, because at that point they really don’t care. I think you can only stick by someone and help them so much until it just becomes too much and in a way you give up.
Caitlin Wakefield
I myself have never been affected by a family member or friend that suffered from alcoholism. However, my best friend has grown up with an alcoholic as a father. She constantly tries to remain strong and give support to her younger siblings, but she cannot deny that her father's alcohol abuse damaged their family life. It hurts me to see a family so close to me struggle with something so serious. It is a constant burden to them and they constantly feel like they must make up excuses as to why he acts this way. In my opinion, there is no excuse for alcoholism. There are other, safer ways to deal with your problems than drinking. When someone is deep into an alcohol addiction, it affects not only them, but those around them. It can damage their work habits, their social lives, and can give them lifelong psychological issues. Those around an alcoholic may live in constant fear. Alcoholics have a higher tendency to abuse those around them--especially their family members. Alcoholism is also one of the hardest addictions to beat. The majority of people drink, and so you would constantly be surrounded with temptations to drink. People may think that it is okay to just drink socially, but for a lot of people, social drinking can spiral out of control until they are faced with a full fledged drinking problem. Those who think that they or someone they love is suffering from a drinking problem should deeply consider going to a rehab or getting some other type of help before they hurt themselves or others.
~Megan Strom
If I were to be in that situation, I think that it would be as hard for me to acknowledge it as it has to be hard for the person to accept that they have an alcoholic problem. If I tried to tell them about it and they would get on the defensive, I would certainly understand because it is not easy to everyone specially an alcoholic person to admit to having that sort of problem. Though, I would keep insisting because to me helping people I something that I like to do. This is especially if it I someone I know and I care about. When someone has a problem like that, from what I have heard and seen, that person needs a much help and they need as much support as they can get. Not only do they need support but love and comprehension too. I would keep insisting and let them know they can trust in me and I would even go with that person to seek a place where they can help him/her. The main affects of alcoholism in my point of view are that they can get diseases such as problems with their liver, if a women is pregnant, they can affect not only themselves but the innocent baby too, Legal problems because alcohol alters the persons aggression, family problems, and lastly, work problems. It is hard for someone to acknowledge their problem because first they pass through denial and once they hit the bottom they kind of start to realize they need help, but no one want to ever admit that they are experiencing something horrible in their lives. All I can say is that a person needs support, love, and comprehension and be with them every tep of the way.
Angelita T. (8:00)
I think People don't want to hear, that it's something wrong with them. alcohol and depression goes hand and hand. if you depress the last thing you may want to hear is that your different from everyone else.you lose friend with alcoholism, the only real relationship a person with alcoholism has is the relationship with a bottle of booze. drinking effects everyone whenever someone choose to drink and get behind the wheel. that's endanger everyone's life I know from personal experience. on the night of July 9, 2004. a drunk driver was speedy down Bradley Ave in Champaign. The Driver hit a 8 year old boy and his older sister. the car hit the boy and instantly. killed him but lucky the ambulance had revived him. the girl had flew over the car. that little boy and girl was my brother and sister. even though the accident was 8 years ago, the pain and heartache that you can put ones family through. the killing thing about it, thats it is happening in our own back yards. and its not like we can't stop it. just image you could be take someone else life and damaging your own.
THE FAT MAN
If someone close to me had an alcohol problem i would try to help them my self first. I would leave the subject alone. If that didn't work or they denied my help and i was for sure they had a problem i would seek help from a professional like what they do on intervention. I believe the first lost of alcoholism would be your health after that it can lead to many m ore things depending on how bad it is maybe your job or even people close to you. I think it has just a big of effect on the people around them as it does on them because it hurts to see your loved one hurting themselves plus you stress are worry about them being okay plus you have your own problems so it can cause a lot of stress. I think its hard for them to admit there problem because most people don't want to face the fact that there addicted to something and they need help to stop and they don't have control over it anymore.
Matthew W
If I knew someone who was an alcoholic, I would do anything to get them they help they needed no matter what they wanted. I would continue to pursue the problem even if they got mad at me. The more defensive someone gets the worse you know the problem is. Alcoholism has many effects on the daily lives of not only the alcoholic and the people who surround that person. They start to lose interest in the things they used to do for fun or the hobbies they used to enjoy. They usually stop going to work or go to work drunk or drink on the job, they become very depressed and usually have some sort of anger problems. It is hard for people to acknowledge their problem because most don't believe they have one even when its at their worst, they don't want to admit it because they like the drinking. It becomes hard for them to see who the used to be, so who they have become is who they will always be in their mind. They can't acknowledge a problem when things are fine in their own eyes.
Shelby F
Well I do know someone that is an alcoholic that is really close to me. When we try to talk to her about it she gets really defensive and gets angry. If shes drinking you better look out cause she will try to lie her way out of it. It is so hard trying to explain to them what they are doing to themselves, the ones they love, and other individuals lives. That person does not want to listen to any word you have to say. Alcohol gets you crazy and makes you think that your invincible. When you drink it will make everything that is wrong or good go better or worse for the person. It kills me to see this person do things to all the others around her that love her. Most people will not recognize their problems cause there not ready to give them up yet.
Alexis H (noon)
If someone that I was close to became an alcoholic I would try to get them to see that it is harming them and interfering with their life. I would let them know that I would be there for them if they ever wanted to talk. I would never stop trying to convince them to stop drinking, I don’t care how anger they get or how much they try not to listen. If someone is an alcoholic it puts a tension on their relationship with their loved ones. The person suffering from alcoholism could become mean and angry when they drink or they could become abusive. If an alcoholic admits that they have a problem then they are having to admit to the root issue as well, that issue that caused them to start drinking in the first place.
Ryan M.
I would pursue the problem because they obviously have a problem. I wouldn't mind how defensive they got just because your trying to help them out and of course its always gonna get worse before it gets better just how things go. I wouldn't stop bringing it up the topic of them being a drunk until he or she got the help, they would seriously need. I think the main effect of alcoholism is depression. My grandpa was a alcholic and hes told me people who drink are messing up their brain, liver, and, heart. Also if you have to much alcohol it can cause you to either blackout, have memory lapses, speech impairment, slow reaction time, and have blurry vision. The way alcohol affect the people around is it can make people not feel safe around them by either them thinking that they are going hit you or just gonna hurt you emotionally. It is hard for people to realize the problem they have because no one wants to be called a "drunk" or an "alcoholic". They want to feel like they don't have a problem at all and continue with hat their doing. Also people think they can get help by themselves and that they don't need anyone advice or help. The only way they can help is if they have true friends they will help them get through the tough times and get them the serious help they need. Because it could save their life in the long run.
Brandan M
i really dont know any one who is an alcoholic. im sure that it would have to be devasting to have someone who is close to be one. addictions like that not only causes the addict harm, but those around them harm as well. im sure it can be very scary and sometimes unsafe. if i did have someone close to me who was an alcoholic, i would definitely try talking to them about it and encourage them to get help. i wouldnt care how made they got at me, i know that i would/could be helping them in the long run. denial is a big problem with addicts, and getting them to admit they have a problem can be a very big step for them. a lot of people dont have someone to try and help them. they just let the person continue the behavior and that is not the way to go about handling it.
Kiara D
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