ALCOHOL DEPENDENCE AND PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN DEPENDENT PEOPLE. CASE STUDY

Abstract

In contemporary society identifies increasingly more people dependent on alcohol. The causes are various, start with the «culture» of alcohol in family and community consumption in poor backgrounds, to excess consumption at difficult moments in live. With the onset of alcoholism are identified consequences at individual, family and community level. Most suffering alcoholic family members, who are directly involved throughout the consumption as codependency, in all the stages through which it, being affected by psycho-emotional and behavioral reactions of alcoholic person. This article highlights behavioral and psycho-emotional reactions which occurs most often in a «dual» mode, shocking by its side family members, friends and acquaintances in the community. The alcoholic resort to various tricks to achieve the purposes of consumption, which may directly or indirectly affect those close. Thus, to better highlight these issues will bring attention to a case of a young man of 26 year, which, in a certain period of time, harmed both self and family and other close persons.