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STAGES OF ALCOHOLISM
  1. The Contact Stage
  2. The Early Stage
    1. First blackout
    2. Sneaking drinks
    3. Guilt feelings
    4. Preoccupation with drinking
    5. Gulping
    6. Repetitive blackouts
  3. Middle Stage
    1. Loss of control
    2. Rationalizations
    3. Extravagant behaviour
    4. Aggression
    5. Persistent guilt/shame
    6. On the wagon
    7. Changes in drinking pattern
    8. Decay of social relationships
    9. Drinking alone
    10. Loss of job
    11. Drinking of central importance
    12. Insomnia
    13. Seeking help
    14. Irrational resentments
    15. Geographic escape
    16. Repression
    17. Decrease in sexual drive
    18. Alcoholic jealousy
    19. Maintenance drinking
    20. Protecting supply
    21. Malnutrition
    22. First hospitalisation
    23. Morning tremors
    24. Regular morning drinking
  4. Late Stage
    1. Binge Drinking
      • without benders
      • with benders
      • periodic
    2. Moral deterioration
    3. Paralogical thinking (faulty reasoning.)
    4. Decrease in tolerance
      Alcoholic gets drunk on lower amounts of alcohol. There is steep decrease in tolerance which among other things is a symptom of liver damage. It is progressive whether one drinks or not. Thus if he drinks after a few years of abstinence he could possibly kill himself with one drink.
    5. Vague fears
    6. Shakes and tremors
      The early drink which used to stop the tremors no longer works.
    7. Psychomotor inhibition
      Even such simple tasks as doing up buttons, putting a key in the lock become almost impossible. The day soon comes when nerves will not transmit commands to muscles.
    8. Chronic suicidal thoughts
    9. Hitting bottom

See also Symptoms of Alcohol Dependence

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