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. During the drinking binge the heavily intoxicated drinker ignores responsibilities, squanders money, and engages in all manner of harmful behaviours that may well bring them into contact with the police or emergency services.
Binge drinking is now a problem in many western countries, even though individual countries have different tolerance levels of binge drinkers. 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.
The general definition of the term “binge drinking” in the UK is the consumption, on a single occasion, of more than ten drinks. This is more than double what is considered binge drinking in the USA, yet binge drinking in the United Kingdom is now so serious, the British Government is about to bring in measures to tackle the problem.
What is the Issue?
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:
Getting into trouble with the police
Getting hurt or injured
Damaging property
Engaging in unplanned sexual activity
Risks to people around binge drinkers:
Being pushed, hit or assaulted
Having property damaged
Being insulted or humiliated
Why do people do it?:
For status associated with drinking
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 be done?
Hypnotherapy Plymouth and NPL can have provide long-lasting results for binge drinking. We are all likely to be mis-programmed via negative input in some ways; neuro-linguistic programming will reprogram one’s mind for more positive results. Hypnotherapy and NLP when combined are greatly effective.
By using a combination of Hypnotherapy Plymouth and NLP, you can re-program your binge drinking behaviour in a few hours. There are many ways to combat binge drinking, including programming your brain with a new way of thinking, hiring a trained hypnotherapist, or finding computer programs that you can download for a do-it-yourself approach. Either way the result is the same, to change your usual self-destructive “drink to get drunk” activities to a pleasant “have a few drinks and have a good time”.
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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