How the treatment of male alcoholism differs from the treatment of female alcoholism
Looking for differences in methods and methods is unlikely to be useful. Statistically, it has been determined that
- female alcoholism progresses faster
- a woman can become addicted at any age
- emotionally, women live the awareness of their plight more strongly
- the historically and culturally loaded image of The Mother Woman leads to more suffering, shame, and guilt.
The disease does not choose whether you are a woman or a man. Addiction does not matter whether you have children, how many of them or not. It develops and progresses beyond your desires, aspirations, education and material prosperity. And it will never stop itself if its development has passed into a chronic phase.
Anonymous treatment of alcoholism, given the factors given, may suit a woman more.
A woman will first of all try to hide the problem, hide it, try not to admit to anyone and even herself that a disaster has happened to her. And it is difficult for her to bring this trouble to discussion. You need a trusting environment, the ability to find an approach and the absence of condemnation.
Rehabilitation of alcoholics, both men and women, is a path from the old, familiar, threatening behavior and thinking to the new, incomprehensible and unknown. Step by step, performing simple actions and gaining new knowledge, people who cannot imagine life without alcohol begin to understand, feel and feel that life can be different.