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The
main signs of this phase are:
Prolonged
drunkenness
The dominant role of the alcohol
in the drinker's life and the desire released by
the morning consumption, neutralize the
dependent's resistance. It happens for the first
time to get drunk in the middle of the day or mid
of the week, also while he is working. In this
stage, he stays few days without being able to do
something else. Frequently appear prolonged
drunkenness states.
Ethical degradation and
reasoning's alteration
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prolonged excesses, ordinary, lead to an
important ethical degradation and to the
alteration of the reasoning through the
renunciation of the ethic and moral
principles, which have been respected.
These processes can be reversible in a
way or other. Alcoholic
psychosis
In this phase for 10% of
alcoholics can arise real alcoholic
psychosis
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meaning psychical disorders due to
alcohol. They are announced by disorders of
memory and concentration, strong emotional
oscillations, crawfishes and modifications of
attention.
Alcohol consumption with
persons under his social level
Moral loss is so advanced that the
dependent accepts sometimes as companions for
drinking purpose, persons "under his social
level". Appear behaviors, which were not
existed before: lies, stealth, promiscuity, etc.
Consumption of technical
products
In case the alcoholic cannot
obtain any alcoholic drinks, he starts drinking
some non-alimentary, technical or medicinal
products (hair lotions, after shaves, surgical
spirit, rheumatic lotions). He doesn't take
account of unpleasant taste and supplementary
toxicity of those substances.
Decreased tolerance to
alcohol
In this phase many
dependent persons can't bear so much drink as
before. This means that the person get drunk from
small amounts.
Undefined anxiety states
and trembling
Fear for a specific thing and
trembling become frequent, sometimes permanent.
In the course of cronical phase these symptoms
appear when the alcohol evaporates from the body.
That's why the dependent combats these symptoms,
which are part of the withdrawl, by consuming
alcohol. This fact is available for some
psychomotor disorders as well, such as inability
to make some simple actions - shaving, drinking a
coffee, etc. These can be performed only after
the consumption of amounts of alcohol.
Obsessive consumption of
alcohol
The necessity to control the
withdrawl is not the main problem of the alcohol
dependent and the desire to solve the initially
problems become more important. The specific
person deeply enter in a vicious circle and the
consumption of alcohol turns into a mania/
obsession.
Undefined religious
desires
For many alcohol dependents, about
60%, appear undefined mystical-religious desires
that become more pronounced at the same time as
their attempts to offer logical explanations for
their situation become weaker. Sometimes arise a
delirium with religious reasons.
Explanations system fall
through
At the end, the explanations
invoked to justify the abusive way of alcohol's
drinking are crocked with the frequent and tough
confrontations of the reality. The dependent has
to admit that he is at the end of one's rope and
to acknowledge his defeat.
Depressive crises
Takes place the total breakdown.
Often, in the course of this evolution, the
person can has depressive crises with an extreme
intensity, which imply a professional medical
assistance; this lead to suicide sometimes.
Alcoholic delirium
A part of the alcohol ailing can
get to neuropsychosis. Can appear paranoid
elements and modifications of personality.
In the alcohol psychosis occur predominantly
visual and tactile hallucinations having a
terrifying character.
The convulsive crises of the withdrawl are
frequently confounded with epilepsy.
The progressive degradation of the personality is
unavoidable when the consumption of alcohol is
not stopped and the ailing follows a competent
and complex treatment.
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