hypnosis for alcohol reduction

THE HYPNOSIS IN ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY

 The use of alcohol has become a very common and shared habit in everyday life, as it is associated with social rituals. Unfortunately, however, we realize late that a constant, excessive and prolonged intake can cause different types of problems: toxic effects on the body, ability to induce dependence, physical, psychological and social damage.

Alcohol is an important risk factor for human health. The damage that it creates, as well as severely affect the individual, extends to his family and society.

The DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) introduces changes in the concept of addiction, calling it addiction, precisely to underline how the dependence on substances is to be considered as a constant active research of substance by the subject despite all its obvious impact. In this regard, 'craving' is inserted, described as a strong desire to take the substance belonging to a class of specific characteristic symptoms that affect the individual dependent on the use of substances, such as: 

   the excessive priority to the situation of alcohol intake compared to all other social, work, family activities, etc .;  

  spend the day solely for the purpose of finding and taking the substance of interest;     the impossibility of the individual in controlling the quantity taken and the frequency;     addiction and abstinence. The new edition of DSM abandons the distinction between alcohol abuse and addiction to follow a dimensional approach; alcohol addiction is included in the substance-related category in the chapter entitled "Addiction and substance-related disorders", in addition to making a diagnosis a distinction is made in mild, moderate or severe.

People often start drinking alcohol to escape from a reality that they do not like and mistakenly think that alcohol can function as a mask, able to hide introversion and social shyness, to improve performance, to free oneself from fear and from relational insecurity, since it possesses the anesthetic function of inhibiting the control mechanisms of the Central Nervous System. This effect, however, is simply apparent, since the damage caused by alcohol abuse is chronic and dependent on various organs and systems,

including the digestive system, the Central and Peripheral Nervous System. A study has shown that hypnosis is a treatment modality able to solve the problems arising from alcohol dependence, managing to improve the management of stress and reduce the strong desire to take the substance (craving), thanks to the learning of new behavioral models. Moreover, this methodology intervenes on the acute symptoms that arise from abstinence, such as:  
  inability to think clearly;  

  memory problems; 
   excessive emotional reactions and numbness;    
sleep disorders;   
 problems of physical coordination;  
  stress sensitivity. In recent years, there have been more and more studies that see hypnosis as an effective psychotherapeutic methodology for substance dependence, precisely because of its ability to ease the expression of potential often latent to the individual himself and, moreover, to break down those rigidity that prevent the person from observing their abilities and using them to their advantage.