Video story about female alcoholism

Added video on alcoholism, it is one of the editions of the program "Scanner" on ORT, the plot - a woman's alcoholism, for the first nine minutes of time to tell you a lot of facts, many of them of course, very controversial, to tell the whole story in his own words did not criticize, and discuss some of the phrases I will like all the comments. Therefore, sat and wrote down word for word, the video consists of a voice-over text, comment specialist (doctor of medical sciences, professor, director of clinical studies of alcoholism Addiction Research Institute of Medical Sciences in Moscow, Vladimir Altshuler), and the stories of two women who have experienced female alcoholism.

Anna (the heroine of the story): "The reason it (not the cause but the reason) to drink a good many years ago had a personal relationship with a man. Oh, I was thrown. Oh, I changed. Oh, I do not like. Oh, I do not need anyone ... stupidity. And alcohol just got on fertile ground, and began. I can definitely say that I lost quite a normal family, a loved one, perhaps even a child. "

Externally absolutely a happy woman 35-40 years, higher education, income above the average, divorced - a portrait of an average woman who is diagnosed with alcoholism. Around the issue of female alcoholism are many myths:

1. Myth of the first and most important - Female alcoholism in contrast to the male is no cure. In fact, it is not. Like any chronic illness, alcoholism be cured ... on one condition - an alcoholic, whether man or woman who never should drink even a glass of traditional holidays.

Vladimir Altshuler: "Female alcoholism impression on the plight of people, and these conversations that he was particularly heavy, especially incurable they just based on impressions. In a society just become a tradition to prohibit the drinking of women and encourage men sometimes drunkenness.

Medicines for alcoholism almost there, there are only drugs, which cause intolerance to alcohol, mostly patient fed pills, which are used in general psychiatry, they make a person more accessible to psychotherapy.

Maria (the heroine of the story): "To drink, I started saving first husband, from drunkenness, could drink a lot and because they often drink, the more I drank, the less he got. Eventually, I divorced him, not noticing itself that retracted into the drink. "

Mary, a fictitious name, a successful economist, between binge she managed to keep the financial affairs of several companies. It is a family.

2. This is a myth that an alcoholic - always degraded woman. Woman alcoholic does not necessarily lie in the gutter, but always comes a time when the singer can not sing, a journalist - to write, an accountant - to consider ...

Anna (the heroine of the story): "First, the problem comes from outside, ie I, as a violent alcoholic, there are people who drink, go to bed and love the whole world and I begin a very active life with the search for justice, adventure, driving at the wheel (one of the worst sins a - riding behind the wheel). There have been periods in my work experience as I could for the month did not come to work five times, I have been so severe withdrawal symptoms that I did not care what happens, but at least there gori all blue flame, but when you consider that I worked as director of live broadcast ... you know what to do I was responsible? It did not matter what happens, or dismiss me, or does not get fired, only to what is happening to me it's over, but I can not stand. "

3. Myth number three - losing themselves into drinking only when consumed liquor. Actually it is not so: women tend to start with wine, beer, gin and tonic. There are even varieties: beer alcohol, wine alcohol, cognac alcohol. In this case the victims of beer alcoholism are most often the girls 25-30 years old (with beer begin teenagers, alcoholism - a disease not fast, just developing at this age).

Unlike men, a woman drinking alone at the beginning, the reason is simple - very few of the ladies like vodka, made her drink the company, and the second or third glass of wine is not considered shameful to drink in solitude. Ambient may not immediately notice that the woman has a problem.

Maria (the heroine of the story): "You know, it was gradual transitions - from beer, wines to heavier drinks, like vodka ... finished with vodka, of course. The patient I think I am 30 years old, but some clinical symptoms, when the rest of the house already, there have been started years with a 35-ty.

Female alcoholism differs from the male on medical grounds, a woman losing themselves into drinking, or more correctly, falls ill on average for 2-3 years, men are kept for five years longer. The reason is that women are not physically fit for drinking, their brains more vulnerable, their body is less water to dilute the alcohol, in addition, women have worse working enzymes, processing alcohol. That is why one and the same dose, male elephant that pellet, and the woman enough to fall under the table.

Women endure worse alcohol dependence, they quickly develop cirrhosis of the liver, they simply break the normal nutrition of tissues and muscles, a typical female trait of alcoholism - a disproportionate thinness of the legs, different runs delirium tremens. In men it is accompanied by video hallucinations, ie catching green men and devils, for women - hearing: they hear voices.

Categories of women suffering from alcoholism:
- Those over forty, from her husband ran away;
- The new Russian wife, she was bored and she feels useless;
- Business woman, when things cease to occupy all his thoughts, she suddenly discovers that the most important in the life of the family and family that she had not.

Vladimir Altshuler: "The men often have such an ideological platform of their drinking, such an entire worldview, why drink, what drink, and do not drink can, and do that for a man who does not drink. For women, something I do not recall this.

At the heart of female alcoholism are emotional issues: betrayal, loneliness, sexual frustration ... If you list them all, get a huge list, but all of these disorders occur in the life of almost any woman, just someone have the strength to fight it, some do not.

Woman who underwent a course of treatment, difficult to adapt to society. Man-alcoholic will support in every possible way around, from the woman alcoholic, as a rule, shunned by all. In Russia's tradition, if a man drinks, his spare, if a woman drinks - condemn.

Vladimir Altshuler: "There were formerly offices for the female and male alcohol abuse alcohol department, and during the visit or on weekends, long lines of attendees are in the men's department there and his wife, sister, lover, mother ... and the women's division one."

After the hospital, doctors recommend the patient to change his life, to lose the apartment, work, friends, Anya, a former director of broadcasting, the left with television, now works for drug addiction, she is lucky, she recovered, a little luck, according to statistics - only every tenth.