My friend Bruno and his faults - tmpx Print

Acrylic painting on Alupanel There was a time and even today, alcoholism was not taken into account in the split of personality. But the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an allegory. The novel, The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and M. Hyde, of Robert Louis Stevenson. Describes, in my opinion, the symptom of alcoholism. Doctor Jekyll, obsessed with his double personality, develops a drug to separate his good side from his bad. It is the latter who, night after night, will finally take over and transform him into a monstrous Mister Hyde. Out of a group of alcohol consumers, a very small proportion will go to Mister Hyde and will fill the majority of prisons. But for the greatest number, like my friend Bruno, it is only about putting oneself in a euphoric state, of elation to party, to feel good and to create social bonds, in conviviality. All this is possible, unless you are bipolar, only with alcohol intoxication ... The short term effect, brain anesthesia, medium term, addiction, and long term immune weakness. Door open to different cancers, neurological diseases and premature aging. - Alcoholism Alcoholism, alcohol dependence, or ethylism, is the addiction to ethanol (ethyl alcohol) contained in alcoholic beverages. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized alcoholism as a disease since 1978 and defines it as "mental and behavioral disorders" related to frequent ingestion of ethyl alcohol. This loss of control is generally accompanied by physical dependence characterized by a withdrawal syndrome upon cessation of consumption (drug dependence), mental dependence, as well as tolerance (need to increase doses to obtain the same effect). One of the main features of this addiction is progression over time. Use without damage (called simple use) precedes risky use and harmful use (without dependence), then finally dependence. Alcohol is a psychoactive substance at the origin of this dependence but it is also a toxic substance inducing harmful effects on health. Alcohol dependence is the cause of physical, mental and social damage.