The Pain of Substance Abuse

Addictions are often deep-seated behaviors. For those struggling with substance abuse, life can be very hard. Substance abuse can rob you of your ability to enjoy your life fully. It also insulates you from healthy emotions and it can take control of your actions and thoughts.

Alcohol dependency can be described as the need or desire to consume alcohol in order to help cope with a difficult feeling or emotion. Many of us find ourselves using substances to cope with difficult emotions or situations so the behavior is very common. However, there is a fine line between over consumption and substance abuse.

Alcohol abuse can literally ruin your life. Not only can it drive away friends and family, it can ruin your liver, ruin your health, and deplete your body of much-needed nutrients. Alcohol abuse is a disease that in which the sufferer has a chronic pattern of drinking in excess despite the negative consequences.

Many times we don’t realize the impact of our behaviors - and we find ourselves entering into our own sort of negative hypnotic trance. Addictions like substance abuse can have a powerful hypnotic hold, but they can be overcome, using mind-body techniques such as hypnosis or meditation.

The pain of substance abuse can destroy your life as well as the people around you. People abuse substances for different reasons from a convenient escape from life to using drugs and alcohol to fit in.

The toll substance abuse has taken on society is very evident, because there is a strong connection between crime and drug dependence. According to the 2012 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, it was estimated that there are approximately 24 million users of illicit drugs in the United States alone.

While the percentage of people who abuse or are dependent on alcohol has dropped, it is still a big problem.

Substance abuse can:

• Altar your judgment
• Change your perception
• Altar your attention
• Cause you to lose control

A bigger problem is that of tolerance or the fact that the more you consume, the more you need to consume to get the desired effect.

Many people use alcohol to make themselves feel better or as a pick me up, but the real truth of the matter is that alcohol is actually a depressant. Alcohol lessens your inhibitions, slurs the speech and decreases muscle control as well as influences your coordination.

Alcohol withdrawal can be very serious as well, causing issues like anxiety, irregular heartbeat, tremors and seizures and even hallucinations. Alcohol is also the cause of nearly half of all fatal vehicle accidents and in 1992 alone, the economic cost of alcohol abuse was estimated to be near 150 billion dollars.

If substance abuse has taken over your life, get relief today with our Substance Abuse Hypnosis session.