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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 the United States, binge drinking is the consuming of four or more drinks by a woman, or five or more drinks by a man on an occasion.
In the United Kingdom, binge drinking is commonly defined as consuming 11 or more drinks on an occasion. 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's the problem?
Binge drinking is irresponsible heavy drinking that often comes under the disguise of fun and games. Binge drinking is terribly dangerous to the drinker and to the people around them.
Risks to the binge drinker include:
? Missing work
? Damaging property
? Engaging in unplanned sexual activity
? Not using protection when having sex
? Driving a car after drinking
? Getting into trouble with the police
? Getting hurt or injured
? Alcohol poisoning - a severe and potentially fatal physical reaction to an alcohol overdose.
Risks to people around binge drinkers:
? Having leisure time or sleep interrupted
? Being insulted or humiliated
? Having a serious argument
? Having property damaged
? Being pushed, hit or assaulted
? Experiencing an unwanted sexual advances or assault
Why do they do it?
? To get drunk
? Status associated with drinking
? Culture of alcohol consumption
? Peer pressure
? Stress
Do you have a binge-drinking problem?
Do you recognise either 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 to do?
Luckily, there's an effective solution to binge drinking - Hypnotherapy and NLP.
We all tend to be miss-programmed by negative input in some way and neuro-linguistic programming reprograms the mind for a positive outcome.
Hypnotherapy puts the mind in a state that will accept the NLP re-programming more readily, so NLP and hypnotherapy combined are a very effective combination.
By using a combination of hypnotherapy and NLP, you can re-program your binge drinking behaviour in a few hours.
You can stop binge drinking by re-programming your brain - you can get a trained hypnotherapist to do this, or you can do-it-yourself by using a self-help download.
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 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.
Visit our website to learn how hypnotherapy can stop your binge drinking, as well as assisting with many other problems, such as stopping smoking, losing weight and building your self-confidence.
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Jay from Maryland asks, “Is it okay to binge drink at parties?”
What can happen when you binge drink?
Binge drinking, also known as heavy episodic drinking, is the massive consumption of alcohol in a short amount of time. An average person is said to have binged, when their blood alcohol concentration reads 0.08% or more. For the blood to reach this level males consume 5 or more drinks quickly, a female 4 drinks. This is known as the 5/4 rule. Height, weight, and other factors can alter this rule. Extreme drinking has been defined as the rapid consumption of 10 or more drinks for males and 8 for females.
In the United States, although the legal drinking age is 21, most individuals are likely to binge drink in college. Studies show over half of male college students and 40% of females have participated in binge drinking in the past few weeks. Nearly one-third of freshman in college have experiences with binge drinking before returning home for the holidays. Unfortunately, excessive drinking is not limited to the over 18 crowd. It was been reported that a quarter of high school students have binged in the last month.
Some methods of binge drinking are shots, shooters, chugging, shotguns, funnels, and drinking games. In the United States, two popular games are quarters and pong, where failure to get one of these objects in a glass after bouncing it off a table leads to chugging beer or the consumption of a shot.
A common Canadian drinking game is Wizard Stick. After finishing a beer, the empty is stacked and taped underneath the current one. In New Zealand, Edward Wineyhands and Scrumpy Hands is a drinking game in which a 40 or 80 ounce can is duct taped to the hands and cannot be removed until completely consumed. The Pub Crawl first became popular in the United Kingdom where drinking establishments close by Midnight. Drinking from pub to pub, by the end of the evening, the binge drinker is crawling home. Botellon, passing a big bottle amongst a circle of friends in a public place, is common in Spain.
Regardless of the method, on the average, those who binge drink miss more classes, get lower grades, are sexually irresponsible, have been accidentally injured or date raped, and have or developed health ailments. In addiction, most alcoholics or addicts at one time were binge drinkers.
After binge drinking, a person is likely to
1) Have an argument or altercation
2) Fall or Pass out
3) Vomit, perhaps choke to death
4) Get into an automobile accident or fatality
5) Overdose (Alcohol poisoning)
During a blacked out state, urination on oneself is common. In extreme cases, however, a binge drinker's bladder can rupture and cause septic blood poisoning.
When asked about his binge drinking experiences The Unknown Drunk replied, “I used to drink hard and fast… If I got drunk fast, I thought everyone would think I was cool. Thinking back, I just looked like a drunken idiot.”
Today, there is a movement in the United States to return the legal drinking age back 18.
“I was legally allowed to drink at 18,” the Unknown Drunk continued. “Maybe that's why I started drinking heavy by the time I was 12.”