Middle-Aged Farmers' Alcoholism in a Few Examples / 日本農村医学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

With reference to three cases of subacute alcoholism which occurred among middle-aged farmers, a study was performed primarily on the psychological factors which were observed before and after the incidence.<BR>1) Discord between parents and children due to the latter's unwillingness to become heirs to their farm household, difficulty of having access to a job due to a drop in physical strength after the affliction of a disease to make up for this hollowness were observed before the incidence.<BR>2) At the time of the incidence, the patients were found in a state of slight reactive depression, such as uneasiness and loneliness, displeasure and loneliness, and hollowness and loneliness, and this state was traceable to the predisease characters and environmental factors.<BR>3) The drinking habit featured an escape from the feelings of displeasure, as it shifted from a nightly practice of slight drinking to a practice of toping due to a rapidly increasing mental reliance.