One of the most affected people with the return of Odete Roitman (Debora Bloch) to Brazil, in the soap opera “It’s worth everything ”, It’s her daughter, Heleninha (Paolla Oliveira ). In the chapter of Monday (28), the artist suffered her first relapse to alcohol.
Already in the chapter aired on the night of last Tuesday (29), Odete Roitman starred in a long clash with her daughter after seeing her with a relapse to alcohol after the matriarch’s arrival in Brazil. On social networks, the public was divided between being next to the powerful or the artist, who suffers from addiction to the cold and unaffective relationship with the matrique.
Although fictitious, Heleninha’s history represents the challenge of many people fighting alcoholism, a disease that may be related to both emotional issues and genetic factors, according to Arthur Guerra, coordinator of the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital Psychiatry Center.
“The main factors associated with alcoholism are social, cultural, psychological and genetic. Social factors are related to the fact that we live in a very alcoholic world, in which many people consume alcoholic beverages as a way of relaxing or having fun,” explains Guerra to CNN .
Genetic factors, according to the expert, involve families who have more enzymes capable of metabolizing alcohol faster, which reduces the effects of hangover. “Among psychological factors, it is common for many people to use alcohol as a way to deal with depression or anxiety,” he adds.
Here are five warning signs that indicate alcohol abusive consumption, according to the expert:
- Damage caused to yourself or the other after alcohol consumption;
- Loss of control over consumption (for example, he says he will drink two cans of beer, but drinks a significantly larger amount);
- Constant complaints from people around those who consumed alcohol;
- Difficulty sustaining the abstinence period (without alcohol consumption);
- Increasing tolerance to the effects of alcohol.
In addition, other warning signs for alcoholism are the abstinence related symptoms, such as lip and hands, nausea, excessive sweat, anxiety, irritation, mental confusion and, in severe cases, hallucinations.
There is no secure level of alcohol consumption, alert expert
According to war, there is no safe level for alcohol intake. “This is because, by offering alcohol to someone, we do not know if this person has any vulnerability, fragility or difficulty in properly metabolizing the substance,” he explains. “In some cases, even a small amount of alcohol can trigger a serious problem. So we say there is no alcohol consumption that is totally safe,” he adds.
In addition, recent studies have shown that even a low amount of alcohol intake can cause damage. This is the case of research conducted at Oxford University that has shown that drinking any amount of alcohol can cause damage to the brain.
The researchers also found no evidence that the type of drink – such as wine, spirits or beer – affected damage to the brain, indicating that the type of alcohol consumed does not matter.
This content was originally published in Helleninha of “Vale Tudo”: 5 signs of alcohol abusive consumption alert on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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