Drinking and mental disorders

In medicine, alcohol abuse is called alcohol abuse, and those who have become mentally and physically dependent are called alcohol dependence. The main component of alcohol is ethanol, which has a certain degree of toxicity. Continuous drinking of alcohol in large amounts can cause metabolic disorders in the body. Because ethanol can not completely detoxify in the liver, resulting in alcohol concentration in the blood, over time in the body storage and accumulation will occur alcoholism, damage to the nervous system and other human organs.

Acute alcoholism refers to a mental disorder that occurs after drinking for more than one person's tolerability. Mainly for the weakening and loss of self-control ability, performance, talkative, exaggerated, quarrel and jealousy, emotional instability, or laughing, or crying, there may be aggressive behavior or low-level behavior, gait is not Stable and inflexible. Some people may experience pathological drunkenness after drinking alcohol, which often manifests as severely punishing attacks; sometimes there may be terror illusions and delusions of fragments that remain completely forgotten. Serious drunks are confused and generally wake up after hours or days.

Chronic alcoholism refers to mental disorders caused by the continuous drinking of the border for several years, more than ten years or decades. Some people also have psychiatric symptoms caused by sudden alcohol break after long-term drinking. The more common types are: Alcohol Obliteration Syndrome: mainly memory impairment and ataxia in the nervous system, accompanied by multiple neuritis. As the disease progresses, some cases can develop into alcoholic dementia.

Alcoholism Syndrome: After drinking alcohol for many years, once the alcohol is cut off, the decrease of blood alcohol content causes withdrawal symptoms. The earliest common symptoms are the tremor of the hands, feet and trunk, which can appear lively and vivid, rich and varied. Illusions can be accompanied by physical symptoms such as fever, sweating, tachycardia, high blood pressure, and dilated pupils.

Hallucinations: With long-lasting and vivid hallucinations, the patient's consciousness is clear, often plagued by hallucinatory content, provoking delusions and emotional anxiety or excitement.

Personality changes: stubborn performance, selfishness, lack of concern for relatives and surrounding things, irresponsibility for work, loose life, declining professional skills, and even unemployment.