This short, life-long cartoon very simply and clearly shows what happens to the body of a person who is addicted to alcohol. When I watch it, I almost always cry at the end... Because I remember myself when... after another holiday with a decent alcoholic libation, dancing on the table in unconsciousness and, traditionally, the final, wild fun, hangover poisoning the next day, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that it was not a 38-year-old woman looking at me, but a 45-year-old tired face with puffiness under the eyes. At that time, 1-2 glasses of wine or beer every evening, a bottle of tequila on weekends and holidays - this was my typical routine and routine. At the time, I was working in the corporate world, in a leadership position, and was very, very stressed at work. Therefore, evening alcohol and high-calorie food were the only pleasures that my body could handle at that time. Now I’m almost 45 and many say that I look 38. I left my previous job and resumed my job as a psychologist, which I started after graduating from psychological university at the age of 24. I stopped drinking alcohol AT ALL. For more than 7 years I have not drunk either at home, or on holidays, or in restaurants, bars, or ANYWHERE and EVER and NOT EVER. After I quit drinking and went through all the stages of withdrawal symptoms for a whole year, I became much more productive, happier, and freer. There are rarely mood swings, causeless fatigue and dissatisfaction with oneself. Alcoholism cannot be controlled. It can only be stopped completely, that is, complete refusal. An alcoholic cannot drink socially and culturally. For what reason? Because the main component of alcohol is ethyl alcohol. And when a person believes and justifies cravings by saying that he wants 50-year-old whiskey from the oak barrel legend or 10-year-old wine from the Napoleonic vineyards of France with a 100-year history, then he is mistaken. He actually doesn’t want, but no longer may not drink and, under various pretexts, he is forced to strive and think about alcohol by the craving for ethyl alcohol, which changes and distorts his reality. At the moment of drinking alcohol, the altered state makes reality rainbow and beautiful, like the kiwi bird in the video. But then morning comes, withdrawal syndrome, followed by a dopamine hole. Withdrawal... Symptoms of withdrawal syndrome: Rapid irritation, aggression Anger at loved ones and others Fatigue, grayness, loss of strength Nothing pleases or inspires Constant thoughts about speeding up the evening, weekends and drinking Strong discomfort when the house runs out of alcohol In anticipation of a quick libation, high spirits, a surge of strength, energy, creativity, ideas are on the move Constant mood swings: when drinking is close and at the moment of drinking - at the peak of joy, when the evening has passed and a new dose is not soon, then points 1-6. An alcoholic is a person who drinks alcohol. Dot! Regardless of quantity and frequency. Even if champagne once a year is also an alcoholic. Just a difference in stages. Stages of alcoholism: Drinking: once a year, a month (initiation); Regular consumption: 1-2 glasses a week (addiction) for dinner, for cheese, for fish, for health, for company, for the success of a business, for a completed project; Social problems: from 1-2 bottles per week (need). I have a headache because of a hangover and can’t go to work. Without the usual dose, he cannot function normally; Binge drinking: 1-2 bottles a day (moral death) is a severe stage of alcohol dependence with non-stop drinking of alcohol for several days in a row. A person completely loses touch with reality, his life is ruled by withdrawal, cravings. He constantly finds himself in situations that are dangerous to life, freedom and health. Personal degradation (physical death) - everyone who came here drank alcohol. Binges for months, complete loss in society, lost contact with friends, family, everyone cuts off contacts, including relatives?