Female alcoholism can be treated, like male alcoholism, although women suffer from it more seriously than men due to physical and psychological characteristics. This was stated by the narcologist of the Irkutsk Regional Neuropsychiatric Clinic Andrei Sergeyev.
– This is a stereotype. “The image of a woman is recognized by people with the image of a mother, a keeper of the hearth, a caring housewife, and of course, against this background, female alcoholism is socially perceived as more painful than male alcoholism,” the doctor answered the question about the incurability of alcoholism in women.
Sergeyev explained that alcohol dependence begins to manifest itself as an obsessive desire to drink an alcoholic beverage and the inability to stop after drinking several glasses. The person also becomes swollen, his face turns red, he is often irritated, sleep is disturbed and aggression towards others appears. RIA Novosti.
In turn, psychiatrist and narcologist Ruslan Isaev said that alcohol and drug abuse is often a consequence of mental disorders, because they help temporarily relieve anxiety and internal pain. Such cases often lead to a “dual diagnosis,” he said.