Addiction is the condition of a person living with an alcoholic who takes responsibility for his behavior. Most often it develops in wives who are completely “involved” in their husband’s illness, Larisa Mazurova, an employee of the Tomsk NIMC Research Institute of Mental Health, told socialbites.ca.
The psychological content of addiction is evaluated as a situation that occurs as a result of being exposed to stress in the family members of the alcoholic for a long time and concentrating on the problems of the addict, denial of one’s own personality and establishing maladaptive family relationships. . These include an intimacy gap – isolation of the family from outside contacts, fixed rules and roles in the family, conflict in relationships, undifferentiation of the “I” of each family member. The family hides their problems, showing the so-called welfare front, ”Mazurova said.
An interdependent woman is always in a state of stress, as alcoholism has compulsive symptoms. Thus, a woman develops the so-called behavior along the Karpman triangle (a model of psychological interaction between people, which implies three social roles: a victim, an aggressor, and a savior interaction, in which two or more people switch in the process. socialbites.ca”).
“A woman finds herself in the role of a victim – she behaves inappropriately when her husband drinks. Cruelty or savior – when a woman begins to take measures to save her husband from alcoholism, treat it and somehow influence his behavior. And according to him, she goes into tolerance after she gets better. So she was treated or sober for a while. She is trying to return life to its former course, to please her husband, not to anger him, but to create certain conditions for him. But the man continues to drink more, as he sees that the woman is ready to take responsibility, to live with him in this way, ”Mazurova added.
Read more about how to identify addiction, what diseases accompany this condition, and which women are susceptible to it – in report “socialbites.ca”.