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Search found 18 matches
by saraht
Mon Dec 15, 2014 12:18 pm
Forum: treatment for alcohol dependence
Topic: Help fòr my mother.
Replies: 1
Views: 3684

Re: Help fòr my mother.

This must be a huge worry for you all, and I do hope that your Mum has followed through with her appointment this morning. In my experience if the organization she works for can offer private care, she will be referred much more quickly than via the NHS, waiting times are lengthy, and if your Mum wa...
by saraht
Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:42 am
Forum: safe drinking
Topic: safe drinking for younger people
Replies: 1
Views: 2302

Re: safe drinking for younger people

This is a good question. The effects of alcohol on the young are immediate, as their tolerance to it has not yet built up. In terms of damage, once your are older, and if you have become used to drinking regularly or dependently, then your body and brain have learned to tolerate much larger amounts,...
by saraht
Mon Dec 08, 2014 9:00 pm
Forum: general
Topic: Calories
Replies: 2
Views: 1588

Re: Calories

Hi Karen The liver metabolises hormones and other substances using two primary phases known and Phase 1 and Phase 2. The Phase 1 pathway is the main metabolic pathway for the oestrogen hormones. In premenstrual women, the ovaries produce oestrogen, primarily, oestradiol, most of which the body conve...
by saraht
Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:32 pm
Forum: safe drinking
Topic: Drink Problem?
Replies: 2
Views: 2057

Re: Drink Problem?

You are not being unreasonable at all, but unless your husband believes he has a problem that now is perhaps effecting his health and your relationship, and it puts you in a very difficult position. Unfortunately when people are put under scrutiny with their heavy or harmful drinking habits, they ca...
by saraht
Mon Dec 08, 2014 11:54 am
Forum: safe drinking
Topic: Becoming dependent on my nightly fix
Replies: 3
Views: 2198

Re: Becoming dependent on my nightly fix

First of all, it's very brave of you to address your concerns, and to ask for advice for invention before this becomes more progressive. Two large glasses of wine 250ml, dependent on the alcohol volume, is between 6 and 8 units, so on a daily basis it does add up to well above the safe guidelines, b...
by saraht
Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:07 pm
Forum: alcohol
Topic: Won't people think I'm boring?
Replies: 1
Views: 2814

Re: Won't people think I'm boring?

I think there is a mythical opinion that people who don't drink are dull and boring, on some sort of mission to spoil everyone else's fun! It's certainly not the case with those who I know who don't drink, don't think any of us have a problem at all with moderate drinkers and those who do know how t...
by saraht
Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:44 am
Forum: alcohol
Topic: Medication and alcohol
Replies: 1
Views: 2243

Re: Medication and alcohol

Hi Babyface It would of course depend on the medication, but mixing alcohol, a depressant when drunk beyond the safe guidelines of 2 to 3 units a day, that is no more than a standard glass 175ml of wine a day, with a change to that medication could indeed cause problems. Your body will have got used...
by saraht
Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:08 pm
Forum: general addiction questions
Topic: computer addiction
Replies: 4
Views: 3595

Re: computer addiction

Hi Judy How worried you must be. Although this is not my area of expertise, addiction of any kind has common threads, and it seem as if you son has most definitely become addicted to the internet. This a growing trend, and clinics are opening all over America that just specialize in this specific ad...
by saraht
Wed Dec 04, 2013 4:27 pm
Forum: alcohol
Topic: Am I an alcoholic?
Replies: 3
Views: 3151

Re: Am I an alcoholic?

This is a theme that comes up time and time again with the women who I see. Most especially with wine, and although two or three glasses sounds moderate, very often three glasses, 250ml represent a bottle, so to drink these amounts on a daily basis represents 70 units a week. Very few people ever me...
by saraht
Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:29 am
Forum: general mental health questions
Topic: No help available when its needed
Replies: 7
Views: 6189

Re: No help available when its needed

You sound so lonely and isolated. Although I am not a specialist in depression, it haunts many of my clients many of whom live in very rural locations up here in Yorkshire. If you email the Samaritans, or use Skype to call, perhaps they can work with you without causing this awful frustration and la...
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