During the Spring Festival, it is very lively to mingle, not knowing that drinking too much wine constantly hurts the body and may lead to mental illness. Scientific research shows that long-term excessive drinking will lead to the formation of dependence on alcohol, alcohol dependence has been widely recognized by the contemporary medical community as a chronic mental illness of unknown etiology. Patients may experience hallucinations and delusions. While the common types of drunkenness at the dinner table belong to acute alcoholism, alcohol dependence is chronic alcoholism, and these people have a special psychology for alcohol because of long-term drinking, which manifests itself in the compulsive experience of thirst for alcohol and the frequent need to drink, and are very afraid or even fearful of withdrawal symptoms. Xie Yongbiao, deputy director of the psychiatry department of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, said, “The chronic alcoholism patients we have contacted are mainly middle-aged men with a high level of liquor, the longest one has been drinking for 30 years and has serious psychiatric symptoms”. The most common symptoms of chronic alcohol dependence are behavioral psychiatric symptoms, such as hallucinations, jealous delusions, mild dementia, including cognitive decline, memory loss, inattention, and in severe cases, Korsakoff’s psychosis, Wilnick’s encephalopathy, etc. The above-mentioned patient with 30 years of drinking experience Wilnick’s encephalopathy. Scientists studying alcoholism in humans have recently discovered that alcohol dependence is related to human genetics, and that some young alcoholics have a special gene in their bodies that is related to the transmission of compound amines in the blood. In addition, depressed people are also prone to “drink to kill their sorrows” and keep drinking alcohol to develop alcohol dependence. The most common organ and tissue damages are liver cirrhosis, perihepatic neuropathy, brain damage and cardiomyopathy, and gastritis, gastric bleeding and pancreatitis also occur more often. It can also cause mental damage and depression, alcoholic hallucinations, etc. Alcohol dependence can affect one’s ability to socialize, work and live, for example, by increasing the risk of car accidents. It is not easy to stop drinking. To deal with alcohol addiction, it is necessary to start changing your perception, to know the dangers of drinking and to understand that excessive drinking is an unhealthy behavior and a disease. If self-abstinence fails, it is recommended to seek help from a regular psychiatrist, who can administer drug substitution therapy to help the alcohol addict gradually get off alcohol, along with cognitive-behavioral therapy and family therapy to reduce the alcohol addict’s drinking behavior and solve his or her psychological problems. Cultivating psychological quality to deal with relapse of alcohol addiction For alcohol-dependent people who simply use drugs to quit drinking, and then let them return to society after quitting and live their lives again, the relapse rate is high after long-term observation, and they often return to their old ways soon. Therefore, at the same time of drug withdrawal, we should pay attention to psychological treatment. Psychotherapy is the treatment to pay attention to the cultivation of good psychological quality. When encountering frustration and conflict, you should not use alcohol, smoking and other bad coping methods, but should use healthy coping methods, such as recreation, entertainment, diversion, sublimation or normal channels of venting. Although drinking and smoking can get temporary peace, but there is long-term damage to health. In addition, you can join some “alcoholics’ support groups”, which are composed of alcohol addicts, so that alcohol addicts can communicate with each other, share their experiences in quitting alcohol, support and encourage each other, so as to achieve the purpose of psychological detoxification. There are now more than 100 countries in the world that have set up mutual aid societies for alcoholics, and the participants are all alcoholics, and they have achieved relatively good results.