What Is Binge Drinking?

What Is Binge Drinking?

Simply put, binge drinking is drinking to get drunk - a
self-destructive and unrestrained drinking bout.

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.