Question

This week the course reading and other materials cover the deteriorating functioning of individual with alcohol dependence and the impact on the individual and others, especially family members. Important assertions from the text include:

1. an indicator of harmful use is that the drinker's mood state now less positive than it was before the drinking.
2. the more a user really like the effects, the more serious the negative consequences need to be to tip the balance and stop the alcohol use and abuse.
3. the alcohol-impaired person often has no idea how obvious their difficulties are to so many other people.
4. most of the family's and friends' efforts to alter the situation don't work
5. Not all families are affected by alcohol dependence in a uniform manner

Choose at least two of the responses or reactions from families; such as denial, disorganization and chaos, reorganization, enabling, and/or codependency to describe and analyze the impact of this dysfunctional alcohol dependency upon the families. What are the worst types or harm and how do families feel, respond, and try to cope with these threats and challenges? Include everyday, real life, examples. Reference the course materials explicitly.

Answer 1

Alcohol dependency sucks the best out of the individual and makes him weak to take any decisions in life. He starts to dettach himself from the right people, bond and relations to become a part of the society that is skining. Sometimes the family is in denial and they feel this dependency is not their among their family memebrs for alcohol as they are unable to accept this. But the truth is that people change and so do their habits. It takes a strong person to be brave and never give in the pressure.There is sometimes chaos in the family and they still do not want to focus on the wellbeing of some member who is an addict. They are lost in their lives and never see the real picture. IN such cases, it is hard to get back the person in real life and say this out loud that you care for him.