Charts For Alcohol Addiction Recovery

Charts For Alcohol Addiction Recovery Will Help You Track Your Recovery Progress And Make The Necessary Changes.

Recovery from alcohol addiction is possible with determination. While the threat of relapse is made real by one's surroundings and circumstances including people and life experiences, following through on the treatment therapies given can help you fully overcome your addiction. One way to track your progress is by documenting everything in a chart. Your chart should start on the day you begin your recovery process. See how you are doing in comparison to the universal chart of alcohol addiction and recovery. The chart has 5 distinct stages: progressive, crucial, chronic, rehabilitation and recovery. The progressive stage marks the period during which one begins drinking occasionally for relief. It is characterized by an increasing tolerance for alcohol, surreptitious drinking and urgency to drink.

Feelings of guilt and memory blackouts begin and one cannot bring themselves to admit that they have a problem. From here, the patient moves to the crucial stage, characterized by heavy drinking, increased memory blackouts, feelings of deep remorse, avoiding family and friends, loss of interest in other activities, neglect of food, tremors, early morning drinks, money and work problems, loss of will power and all efforts to control drinking fail. Then follows the chronic stage where one's thinking is impaired, they become obsessed with drinking and have indefinable fears. Failure to get help at this stage can lead to death. Where help is sought, rehabilitation begins.

One learns that alcoholism is an illness and they stop taking it. Recovery begins when one expresses honest desire for help. They experience an onset of new hope and appreciation of the possibilities of a new life. Throughout the recovery phase, mark any progress you make in regaining self esteem, obtaining a new circle of stable friends, appreciating real values, developing new interests, ideals, increasing level of emotional control, effort to gain natural rest and sleep, nourishment, economic stability, enhance personal appearance, gaining confidence of employers, finding contentment in sobriety and forming rationalizations. You should be able to accept mutual help and group therapy throughout this period.