Chemical addiction is primary ...

But in some cases the pathology is irreversible. The next sphere, which cause serious damage - intellectual. Because of damage to the brain thought processes are being violated, and memory. The addicted person is sometimes difficult to correlate events in time, and the general state of mental sphere can be characterized as alcohol or drug hallucination. Alcohol or drugs are always present in all his thoughts. Addict knows exactly when, how much and what kind of drugs he used the last time (if he did not have memory impairment), and the future is aware of only the possibility of obtaining a new dose. If, however, decides to quit "and" ties ", it believes the days of temperance, or purity, thus knows exactly how many time do not consume alcohol or drugs. Defeats the spiritual realm is more difficult to sense and diagnose. Most often it refers to the quality of relationships with family, society, self, God. As the disease development in a chemically dependent person, these natural relations, and related values ??are replaced by closer ties with the chemical that becomes paramount. Everything else loses its significance. Usually close to the chemically dependent people believe that if he / she loved me / and then refused / she from this pernicious passion. But the debasement of family relations is not on his own free will. It is - a manifestation of the disease. Chemical addiction is primary in the sense that it is not a complication of another disease. Therefore all its manifestations should be treated in the aggregate. Stay in error about the nature of the disease can be costly and victim number 1, and all close to him / her, who tend to treat every crisis as an outbreak or escalation, but as an individual, not related to the overall dynamics crisis that "this will pass, and then everything will be fine, and all problems are resolved. " Only a few chemically dependent - the only actors in dramas. They, like the heroes of Shakespeare's tragedy, carried away by all the others on the path of the final disaster. Every person whose life is somehow affected by chemical dependency, is exposed to the disease. But the most severe consequences of the disease impact on members of the family, which lives dependent person, in public, literally share his life and, ultimately, disease. Close can not turn away from the dependence of its problems - it would mean the collapse of his own life, the betrayal of man as at the very moment when he most needed help. Therefore, they opt for one that they understand the criteria - and are adapting to the illness, developing a style of conduct, which would give them the opportunity to experience minimal personal stress. Daily compromising, they do not live and survive. Making the installation of survival, relatives develop protective adaptive reactions and behaviors that provide co-dependent protection against the growing pains.