One of the most affected people with the return of Odete Roitman (Debora Bloch) To Brazil will be your daughter, Heleninha (Paolla Oliveira). In the chapter of Monday (28), the artist suffered her first relapse to alcohol.
Although sober, after a period in a rehab clinic, the character was completely shaken by the return of the matriarch, known for her coldness and distance in the affection.
Although fictitious, the story of represents the challenge of many people fighting. According to Arthur Guerra, coordinator of the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital Psychiatry Center, family conflicts and emotional stresses can be related to relapse episodes, as with the soap opera character.
“The person goes well in treatment, but suddenly begins to suffer intense pressure from the family environment. Instead of helping, the family ends up boycotting or sabotaging the recovery process,” explains Guerra to CNN. “Instead of offering a welcoming and quiet environment, it provides a more stressful context. Given this, the person can resort to alcohol as a form of ‘medicine’ to deal with this negative situation,” he adds.
In addition, the expert explains that problems of self -esteem and mental health may also be associated with relapse episodes, especially those fighting alcoholism.
“There are people who cannot live well, in a quiet and proper way. They feel the need to have a problem and sometimes put a label in themselves, saying, ‘I am sick, I am a person who can not have quality of life,'” war is war. “This perception of lack of quality of life ends up reinforcing this label of disease. So these people end up falling into the use of alcohol.”
Difficulties in the treatment of alcoholism
The treatment of alcoholism represents a great challenge, mainly because the only way to recover from alcohol addiction is not to consume any amount of such drink. “This is quite difficult because some patients even admit to having the disease, but insist on trying to drink socially, eventual or occasional. However, this approach does not work,” says Guerra.
In addition, the expert reinforces that there is no safe level for alcohol intake. “By offering someone to someone, we don’t know if this person has any vulnerability, fragility or difficulty in properly metabolizing substance. 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 explains.
