There is a need, I think, to consider alternative therapies which assist in the recovery process. A lot of damage is done by alcohol. Part of the recovery process is to repair the physical damage. I think the Seven Weeks to Sobriety program of nutritional/vitamin/mineral/etc therapy is a must for anyone wanting to achieve good mental health after becoming AF. Interestingly, the Health Recovery Centre web site has two sides to it. One devoted to alcoholism and the other to mental illlness, the hypothesis being that most "mental illness" has an organic cause and can be corrected with good nutrition and supplements. I think there is a lot to that.
Then there are other "talking therapies". There seems to be a growing view that while Baclofen can take care of the cravings, one can still end up in a bad way as a result of coming off alcohol. I came across this post on the Baclofene site. It is worth reading for the Google translation alone:
Why talk of psychological and baclofen. . . . . . . . . .by: Sylvie and Marion.
Because baclofen can help you overcome Craving, but it can not alone solve all related problems.
Indeed, baclofen acts on GABA-B, freeing you from physical dependence, and even if it appears to have antidepressant and anxiolytic effects, psychological care can only help to improve its efficiency, first to enable better self-knowledge, to identify gaps and also the tensions that led you to have an addictive behavior. Only the road will be longer??
The disease of alcoholism is complex. Very often it is one or trauma, and unresolved, which pushed us to use this food-medicinal product, to alleviate our anxieties, our fears and our wounds.
However, baclofen will cope with an impairment of your neurotransmitters that is causing your dysphoria, and you compensate by seeking euphoria through your favorite food, medicinal product: alcohol, benzodiazepines, psychotropic drug called "hard" ... But it may be that for some, who have a very heavy burden in these compensatory taken, there is also a behavioral commitment to this practice became a ritual. This ritual is, if it is a habit for a long time will be longer to "forget" that the product itself, even under baclofen.
In other words, even if the baclofen kills physical dependence, for some it may be harder to kill the habit, gesture.
However, there is a whole can work to do this in psychotherapy: it will have to learn to live differently, without the reassuring landmark decision of euphoric. This can be confusing to find without loss, but also in a limbo again: well what can I do instead of my gesture to my product? For what am I going to replace it?
Therapeutic techniques can help with this, the dialogue can also help you find what is in you as vital resources and you do not know yet.
Some of you have already done this much work on themselves, and they are left craving more than defeat.
But for all others, it is preferable to consider psychological treatment especially in cases of self-medication.
Not having a prescriber, you should definitely a competent person who can listen to your fears and guide you in the changes you will inevitably encounter.
You'll have new experiences, sometimes pleasant, sometimes less and sometimes be a bit disturbing and professional advice to help you cope and understand these changes.
If you encounter problems like:
- Inability to manage emotions, to be a victim of his emotions.
- Relationship issues.
- Changes in moods sudden, severe fast or frequent.
- Anxiety.
- Relationship Type Love / Hate.
- Feelings of being a "victim".
- Depression proved.
- Frequent outbursts of anger or unpredictable (externalizing or not).
- Self image unstable.
- Fear of abandonment.
- Impulsive self-destructive behaviors.
- Attacks of rage.
- Attempted suicide or self harm.
But also if, more simply:
- You have trouble differentiating the craving and habit.
- You met the alcohol very young, and your whole personality is built around this medicinal product com-
- You have to approach this journey alone (e), having lost before taking Baclofen, your family, your work, or more?? Or if your life is just overwhelming.
- You have trouble defining your ultimate goal in taking baclofen:
Search of total abstinence? Or return to a reasonable consumption, episodic and friendly?
So the psychological support in various forms for you answer, you choose the one that is most suited to your personality.
The important thing is to find a competent therapist with whom you're comfortable. We have listed to help you in your approach different therapeutic approaches:
Psychotherapy officially recognized:
Analytical psychotherapy:
It has a broader indication that the analytical treatment. She can provide assistance focused on certain conflicts. Based on the verbal interpretation given by the patient, it aims at the explanation of behavior and affects, to end the disappearance of these conflicts. The psychotherapist abandoned its neutrality to be a substitute for a caring parental figure and structuring. The cure, shorter than analysis ends when the patient has gained better control of himself.
The cognitive and behavioral therapies:
one of the fields on which they are particularly suitable, what are the dependencies. Whether tobacco, alcohol, gambling or even sexual addictions, this approach proposes to find practical strategies to end these needs and other compulsive behaviors, often in addition to a medicinal approach. The behavioral and cognitive therapies are also vital allies in many psychological disorders: Anorexia and bulimia, obsessive compulsive, phobias and even hyperactivity or insomnia, cognitive behavioral therapy can supplement treatment to not only heal but also prevent recurrences .
Psychoanalysis:
In my opinion the least desirable in our case, for very long in its implementation.
Brief therapies:
All these therapeutic approaches have in common is that they turned into the present and the future, far more than the past, a period of life when there is no need to search for causes unconscious to solve effectively the obstacles of life.
The Brief Therapy uses tools such as:
* Neuro-linguistic Programming or NLP (Grinder and Bandler): search for excellence in communication through various contact channels: visual, auditory, kinesthetic.
Adjustment of language than the other,
* Hypnosis (M. Erickson): work on altered states of consciousness to mobilize the resources of the deep unconscious
* Approach "focuses on the person" (Carl Rogers): active listening, according to reformulation of the client. The therapist wants to be "non-directive", in an attitude of unconditional acceptance of each other in their difference and uniqueness.
There are close to therapies such as Brief Therapy:
* Therapy ordeal (J. Haley): This is primarily a strategic therapy, entertainment, characterized by its smoothness requirements of tasks,
* Paradoxical therapy called "provocative" (Farrelly)
* Solution-oriented therapy (S. DeShazer, W. O'Hanlon): The idea is to create the idea that patients have all the skills and resources necessary to solve the problem that leads them into consultation, by Research exceptions
* Therapy Brief Strategic Family Therapy and Systemic (many currents which G. Bateson): Instead of treating separately the "identified patient", it treats the individual or family as a whole as a "system" of global communications and habits
* Behavior Therapy (Pavlov, Skinner) also called "cognitive behavioral" Update progressive defense mechanisms and changes of beliefs.
Exercises to practice alone between sessions.
The groups of words:
A condition of finding a group that does not reject it wholesale baclofen.
It is impossible to speak of baclofen in AA and LIFETIME FREE.
Perhaps it will be possible one day in a center for alcohol dependence groups benefit from speech coaching?? But it will take.
In short, baclofen will help you overcome cravings, relieve your anxiety and your inner tension, but similarly we encourage you to find a prescribing physician, we encourage you to seek help from psychologists "humanist" and competent .
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