Alky Recovery is a free mobile application that facilitates the process of fighting alcohol addiction. It is intended for both alcoholics and their relatives.
Alky Recovery is asmartphone application that consistently changes your alcohol abuse habits. Alky Recovery is equipped with a number of complicated algorithms that make sure that every day advise, control and, above all, motivate its users. According to Marcin Brysiak, the originator and creator of the application - “Support is the most important in the addiction treatment process. This is especially important, especially in the initial stage, when people diagnosing their problem do not always want to turn to others for help. We want to provide it with an application. "
How is the application supposed to help people addicted to alcohol?
Alcohol craving is the result of an alcohol addiction, it's hard to control it. Feelings that may trigger the appearance of hunger are primarily: fear, irritation, sadness, rage, regret or a feeling of low self-esteem. The desire to drink "one deeper" in such situations is due to the fact that over the years alcohol has been fixed in the head as a way of coping with various states of tension. By using the application, the hunger diary records the situations in which the internal craving for alcohol increases and what feelings and symptoms accompany it. The diary helps to control relapses and limits their number. It is also worth trying out different ways of dealing with the feeling of lack of alcohol when using the application.
Based on the symptoms you experience, you can quickly analyze the state we are in. Are the events that happen to us and the reactions that follow them not he althy and do they suggest hunger symptoms and when should the red STOP light come on! WARNING! - take care of yourself.
Why keep a diary of feelings?
For several reasons. Alcoholics are eager to focus on thinking, thus limiting the ability to recognize experienced feelings. To revert to the ability to recognize feelings in yourself, you need to keep a feeling diary. Other reasons include expanding your ability to recognize feelings and creating an opportunity to write them down. Increasethe ability to analyze feelings will facilitate the recognition of states threatening sobriety.
Why are these feelings so important in the context of alcoholism? Alcoholics are eager to focus on their own thinking, thus limiting the ability to recognize experienced feelings. This may be because you are trying to distract yourself from expressing your feelings. Such an attitude is often the result of erroneous educational influences of parents, aunts, grandmothers, etc., who made it difficult to express feelings spontaneously. For example, they said to their children: "the boy is not crying, … it is not appropriate to shout loudly, … only the women are hugging" etc. experiencing them. Difficulty expressing "negative" feelings may be because there is no safe place to express those feelings. Alcoholics, under the influence of psychological mechanisms of addiction, often stop feeling - initially those negative emotions for them, and later others. Sometimes they have to get drunk so as not to experience such feelings. Such an attitude may lead to a situation in which there will be difficulties in recognizing anxiety and growing anger. Only a high level of emotional tension causes an uncontrolled reaction in the form of an outburst of anger, often combined with aggression, and this sometimes becomes a source of guilt.
This will be useful to you
The application consists of five sections:
Desktop:This is the place where you have quick access to all the functions in the application. In addition, there is a sobriety counter, motivating messages, the result of the alcohol test / survey, the results of the daily hunger survey, a feeling diary and a map with the nearest medical facilities, recommended by PARPA.
Messages:Share your experiences with other application users.
Hunger section:Hunger diary is a very good tool that we can use to support our recovery and identify, for example, relapses. Part of the diary is very similar regardless of the type of addiction, and some remains specific to a given disease, e.g. the need to drink.
Feelings section:Feelings diary is an interesting, helpful tool, widely used in the treatment of emotional disorders. It is a very good complement to recovery guides in the treatment of addiction, incl. in the treatment of alcoholism.
Knowledge section:Definitions, alcohol test / questionnaire, guides and many other useful information on this topic.
ApplicationAlkyRecovery is available on Google Play and runs on the Android operating system.