Binge Drinking on the Rise

Whatever is causing the spike in binge drinking, hypnosis can offer hope.

From the NPR article: There has been a spike in binge drinking from 2002 to 2012 in the U.S. Also see: rising rates of binge drinking.

The number of 25- to 34-year-olds who died annually from alcohol-related liver disease nearly tripled between 1999 and 2016, from 259 in 1999 to 767 in 2016, an average annual increase of around 10 percent. Could those be linked? Most certainly they are.

What do you suppose is driving more and more young adults to binge drink?

• Anxiety? And if that is it, what is driving the anxiety?
• Number of bars in urban locations?
• Distiller marketing?
• Being lonely and other counter productive emotions?
• Financial Pressure?
• A person’s inability to cope with the pressures of modern life?

Hypnosis is known for its ability to change a person’s perspective so that they can see all the options.   When we are faced with negative emotions we usually just reach for a drink (what we know works), but it doesn’t solve our issues.

Hypnosis is also a way to aid the person in solving the source of the drinking problem. Here is how hypnosis helps with alcohol issues:

• For someone that is anxious, we create a new physical response of being calm and clear minded.
• For someone that is tempted by the marketing messages to drink with friends and the bar on the corner we can dissolve those triggers and strengthen the ideas of not drinking and that being the norm.
• If someone is lonely, sad, or hurt we can resolve the patterns in their life that lead to these emotions and create again options, a new way of seeing their situations.
• For financial pressure we can transform their current relationship with money and financing, including changing one’s belief system about abundance and wealth.
• And for coping the modern life, we can help bring out a person’s BEST SELF so that they are more easily experiencing life.

There is hope. Hypnosis for emotional relief and medical doctors for physical healing.

Dr. Elliot Tapper a liver specialist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School said, “I’ve had patients who came to me in a wheelchair and three months later, they’re shoveling snow and their lab tests are normal. It’s always because they made that choice to stop drinking.”

The author of the NPR article is Paul Chisholm is an intern with NPR’s Science desk.

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