Friday, October 3, 2008

Stop binge drinking, before it stops you!

Basically, binge drinking is overindulging in alcohol to get drunk, a vicious and uninhibited drinking free for all. A seriously intoxicated individual engaging in an episode of binge drinking will shirk obligations, waste money, and take part in many other types of harmful activities, which may potentially bring him or her into contact with emergency services or police.

Binge drinking is a world wide problem, even though different countries have different attitudes on the subject. In United States binge drinking means the number of drinks consumed by a person on a particular occasion i.e,  woman having four or more drinks or man having five or more drinks.

In the United Kingdom, binge drinking is commonly defined as consuming 11 or more drinks on any particular occasion. This is more than twice what's considered binge drinking in the U.S., but binge drinking in the U.K. is so severe now that the British Government is ready to take further measures to defeat the problem.

Binge drinkers usually say,what's the problem? They don't see how serious their problem has become.

Binge drinking is simply irresponsible, heavy drinking which frequently is disguised as mere fun and games. The dangers of binge drinking not only affects the drinker, but also to all the people involved with the drinker.

Risks to the binge drinker include:
 
Driving a car after drinking
Getting hurt or injured
Missing work
Not using protection when having sex

Risks to people around binge drinkers:

Experiencing an unwanted sexual advances or assault
Having property damaged
Being insulted or humiliated

Why do people do it?:

To get drunk
Peer pressure
Stress

Do you have a binge-drinking problem? Do you recognise any of these harmful and destructive behaviours in your own life:

Are you drinking more heavily and more often?
Are you drinking to get drunk
Is your drinking affecting your work or upsetting your partner or family?

What can you do?

Luckily, there's an effective solution to binge drinking, Hypnotherapy Plymouth and NLP. We all tend to be miss-programmed by negative input in some way and neuro-linguistic programming reprograms the mind for a positive outcome. Hypnotherapy puts the mind in a state that will accept the NLP re-programming more readily, so NLP and hypnotherapy combined are a very effective combination.

Using a blend of NLP and Hypnotherapy Plymouth, you will be able to re-program binge drinking behaviour within a matter of hours. You can stop binge drinking by re-programming your brain, you can get a trained hypnotherapist to do this, or you can do-it-yourself by using a self-help download. You have to be able to gauge yourself to just have a few drinks and stop, way before you are actually drunk.

It's a matter of self-control, and there are neuro-linguistic and Plymouth Hypnotherapy techniques that create a sequence of thinking that get the brain to move from the thought of drinking to excess to the thought of just having a moderate amount of drinks and enjoying yourself.

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