ADDICTIVE PERSONALITTY - EATING DISORDER - AND OTHER MENTAL DISORDERS
ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY - EATING,
DRUGS, AND ALCOHOL USE DISORDER,
WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY -
WERNICKE-KORSAKOFF SYNDROME
Note: These mental health disorders are not mentioned in Dr. Jacob’s book.
Do you remember what I wrote in the fifth paragraph of this website?
Health is one’s most important asset and too many of us just waste it due to a lack of knowledge.
The reason I mention these disorders on this website is because of my life’s close interactions with more than a dozen of these disease sufferers and the fact that too many people underestimate the severity of an addictive personality. And too many people do not understand that alcohol is a dangerous drug that leads to mental and body functioning disabilities, and often to life-threatening diseases.
In an English study published in Nature Communications, in 2022, based on 36,000 high-quality brain MRI scans from the United Kingdom’s Biobank, drinking two beers a day damages your brain as much as ten years of aging. And the damage is permanent. One can see the study here:
The risk of abusing alcohol increases if individuals use drinking to numb themselves of their problems, to cope with anxiety, fears, or mood issues, or to enhance their creativity.
The two following studies report on the association of these disorders.
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Antisocial personality disorder can be exceptionally challenging to treat, in part because those with this disorder may be inclined to create the appearance of change in order to get what they want.
More than one in eight American adults has Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). Researchers estimate that genes account for approximately half of the risk. The effects of alcohol are more pronounced on women’s health, and women are fifty to hundred percent more likely to die from alcohol-related causes.
According to the report published July 28, 2023, in JAMA Network Open, while drinking is still killing more men than women, the rate of alcohol-related deaths is rising faster among women.
Deaths related to excessive alcohol consumption are rapidly rising in the United States, especially among women, this new study finds.
Another expert on AUD and not involved in this study said that women have lower amounts of the enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, needed to break their drinks down, so they are left with higher levels of a substance that is toxic to organs like the liver. Moreover, women have less body water to dilute the alcohol they have consumed, the end result is that alcohol in their systems becomes more concentrated.
What bothers me is these disorders end up creating non-painful hidden permanent brain damage that will often affect generations.
What I mean by this is the fact that the damage caused by these food, drug, and alcohol use disorders is permanent and not reversible. Cancer cells can be treated with MSM and become normal cells but destroyed brain cells are gone forever. This means it will even affect your offspring. You cannot give your offspring what you do not have, but beware, you will give them your brain’s missing sections and your problem.
Drugs and alcohol use disorders affect the brain by destroying areas of the brain that control the body. Alcoholic neuropathy, or degenerative changes in the nervous system affecting nerves responsible for sensation and movement renders these people clumsy. This is the first stage of the nervous system being affected by these disorders.
Chronic alcohol use disorder irritates the stomach and digestive tract and reduces the body’s ability to absorb vitamins. An estimated eighty percent of people with alcohol use disorder don’t absorb or retain enough thiamine.
WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY
Wernicke Encephalopathy is a sudden and severe brain disorder. It affects the central nervous system that results in confusion, loss of balance, loss of vision and other eye problems. People may also experience muscle loss. It is due to a lack of thiamin (Vitamin B1) and requires immediate attention.
Untreated, or when these symptoms become long term, they cause lasting brain and nerve cell damage leading to severe memory loss and the inability to form new memories and the condition is known as Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome comes with alcohol use disorder and/or malnutrition.
What certain drugs and alcohol do to the brain is irreversible, it eventually brings the addicted person toward dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease and burden their family and society.
Most disturbing is when an addicted person has other health conditions needing drugs, the interactions with these drugs become even more dangerous. And the doctors treating these patients most often do not even look for their patient signs of these addictive diseases symptoms.
Some doctors see older patients with many symptoms of dangerous diseases and do not ever notice it because they see their patients in their office with their computer in their hand, the patient sitting on a chair, and without even asking the patient to just walk or do some simple exercise movements.
Whenever one drinks enough to feel inhibited, it means that some part of the brain lost control of parts of the body’s functions. Others can notice it as soon as the person has slurred speech, and their eyes get all watery.
As one keeps drinking, one ends up getting used to it and needing more to get where they do not have to think of what is pushing them to drink. The same goes on with medicinal and recreation drugs, addicts always need more.
Unless they end up being taught of the consequences of their actions and they decide to take their problem in their own hands, it keeps increasing and spiraling to a point of no return. This point of no return is reached in a short period of time once part of your microvascular white matter changes, and you experience diffuse cerebral volume loss.
Culture has a significant influence on how people consume alcohol. A study that explored family drinking in Italy found that Italians who drank at family meals while growing up were less likely to develop unhealthy drinking habits later on in life. My dad made his own wine, my parents drank wine every night at dinner, we were given a small glass of wine even at five years old on Sunday, and we never had an alcohol use problem.
It is especially important that everyone who are not addicted understand these diseases to try to help the people afflicted by these diseases, so they seek professional help.
What I hope to see in the future is real health education in K-12, so children understand the importance of thoughtful balance in all what we do for our body’s health with emphasis on alcohol and drugs use disorder.
Teaching that exercise classes in school are to show the importance of keeping your body active but it is extremely important to make it understood as being as essential a need for your body as eating three times a day.
This is why I am a firm believer that private and charter schools end up giving a better all-around education to children because of all the extra curriculum activities that make the children practice sports on a mostly daily basis. From fifth grade to twelve grade, I played tennis or hockey every day for two six-month seasons. See EXERCISE to understand its importance in the human’s life from birth to death.
Health education should teach children how the body needs to eat three times a day, but not all day and not only what one likes but all what one’s body needs to provide the body with its 102 needed minerals. If a child has difficulties eating some food, find a way to cook it or present it mixed with other food the child likes. And again, teach moderation in all.
EATING DISORDERS:
If one wants a slim figure, and everyone should, one can achieve it with the right amount of food together with the adjusted amount of exercise. Most show businesspeople with great figures and the top athletes will tell you that they eat all that is needed for their body, and they work out or exercise for one or more hours a day. (Most often many hours a day)
Eating disorders, anorexia, bulimia, and obesity, all have in common an addictive personality that affects the brain of the sufferers to the point of losing control of the need and moderation in food and exercise.
Per psychology experts, anorexia nervosa is the most lethal mental health disorder because these sufferers are at increased risk of suicide. Good thing it affects only 0.9% of females and 0.3% of males at some point in their lifetime in America.
Temperamental factors, such as perfectionism and obsessional traits in childhood, are associated with anorexia nervosa. These sufferers usually have other personality disorders that create difficulty interacting with others without them realizing it.
Binge eating disorder (obesity) is thought to be the most common eating disorder in the United States, affecting approximately 3 percent of adults. It is more common among mildly obese people, affecting as many as 15 percent of this group.
All in all, we see that moderation in everything is extremely important and exercise is often missing for the majority of these personality disorders sufferers.
I hope these sufferers will at least do more exercise and use the MSM sulfur nutritional supplement to bring more blood flow to the brain to slow the damage to the brain cells. But more importantly that their friends and family help them understand the health risks they put themselves into and seek professional help.
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