Home  |  Health & Fitness  |  Conditions & Treatments  | 

Understanding Reasons for Drinking

How does a person know if he or she is drinking to self-medicate?

To properly view this site, javascript must be enabled and Flash version 9 or higher must be installed.
Get the latest Flash player
Judith Welles Cousins
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, private practitioner
judithwellescousinslcsw.com  
703-921-1166

Judith has worked in the field of mental health and substance abuse since 1988,  She received her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonweatlh University in 1991 and was licensed as a clinical social worker in 1994.  In her private practice, Judith sees adults, families, children and adolescents, and couples. She addresses such issues as substance abuse, depession, anxiety, family discord, couple conflict, poor school performance, and  life transitions. Judith believes that within each individual, family, and couple are the resources to change, heal, and thrive.  Through the process of psychotherapy, she assists clients to identify and use these resources to gain personal and relational well-being.      

How does a person know if he or she is drinking to self-medicate?

In this video, Judy Cousins, Clinical Social Worker, will provide answers to questions regarding reasons to quit drinking. Judy will include information regarding the nature of alcohol use, the positive and negative consequences of use, and effective strategies for quitting drinking.

This expert: 61,503 views

This series: 14,827 views

Download to Mobile Device
Tags:

Drinking

,

Alcohol

,

Alcoholics

,

Alcoholism

,

Celebration

,

Counseling

,

Quit

,

Anonymous

,

Recovery

Comments:

0 (Read Comments) (Add Comment)

Print

Transcripts

Host: How does a person know if he or she is drinking to self-medicate?

Judith W. Cousins: A person knows that they are self medicating by drinking when they start to become aware that when they have troubling feelings or they have distressing feelings or they are in distress that their immediate thought or their close to immediate thought is, I am going to have a drink. For example, I have had a really rotten day at work, I am going to have a drink to relax or I may have two drinks to relax. When that becomes a pattern, when that becomes a habit then a person can say to themselves, I may have a problem with using alcohol to help myself relax or help myself feel better.

Other Videos

  • Stroke Treatment & Prevention

    Stroke Treatment & Prevention

    Nina Solenski, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, discusses the key treatments for preventing stroke.
  • How to Eat More and Lose Weight

    How to Eat More and Lose Weight

    This video will explore the causes of weight gain, as well as make a weight loss plan that fits your diet.
  • Kids' Health - Upside Down Fitness for Kids

    Kids' Health - Upside Down Fitness for Kids

    In this video series, "Upside Down Fitness for Kids," group-x director/ personal trainer, Margie Weiss, describes a variety of safe and effective ways to strengthen the major body areas kids need to work. Being upside down is just plain fun for kids. So it's natural that they will like to exercise upside down! Most of the time they are having too much fun to even know they are exercising! With an extensive background in children's fitness, Margie used these exercises to provide her own children, and now her grandchildren, as well as more than 20,000 young exercisers over the past 35 years, the opportunity to become fine athletic specimens -- healthy, yet safe exercises to promote overall fitness. The exercise safety video was shot at the Skatequest "Family Fitness Center," of Reston, Virginia, run by Margie, Genna & Geremi Weiss.
  • Acupuncture

    Acupuncture

    Acupuncture
  • Fitness and Fun With Your Kids

    Fitness and Fun With Your Kids

  • How can I have a healthy relationship in college?

    How can I have a healthy relationship in college?