Delirium Tremens "DTs" Explained
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Per the request of numerous subscribers, today's video will go more in depth about Delirium Tremens aka the "DTs" which is a complex, and potentially lethal syndrome that occurs as part of complicated alcohol withdrawal.
Topics about DTs covered today:
*Explanation of the core features of DTs
*Incidence rate and mortality risk
*Time frames for the onset of DTs
*Risk Factors
*Consideration for how traumatic the DTs can be
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I've been to combat zones in the Iraq war and going through DT was the craziest insane horrible experince I evered had to go through. Please get help from people like Dr. Kim to get through it. I did it at home and it was hell.
I had all of these about 5 months ago. I was in full alcohol withdrawal and I could hear the SWAT team gathering outside my room. About 12 hours later I could hear voices that I can only hear as demonic. It scared the hell out of me. After about 2 and a half days it went away. Scary stuff.
For sure, very scary. Hope you are doing better.
I was soaking in My room an I heard footsteps out My window and I saw Shrek walking into My back yard. I called an Ambulance straight away. I'm four weeks out an still hear strange singing. Never again. I reckon I'll have PTSD over this one. Hope Your staying strong Friend.
@@jonoedwards4195 Damn bro! That's some scary stuff.
You deserve way more views and subscribers, Doc, this is really helpful stuff for those going through what is a very, very rough battle. Thanks for your hard work.
I think people used to make jokes about people having DT. That's why you see in old cartoons and comedy shows where they depicted a drunk person having pink elephants spinning around their heads. Even though I never had the DTs, I've experienced severe withdrawal possibly more than a thousand times and it's good to watch these kind of videos to remember why I stopped drinking.
This video is so helpful. My brother is currently in the hospital with it and when i first saw him, i thought he had a stroke or brain damage he was so out of it and a shell of himself.😭 Praying he recovers and we can get him in rehab straight away. 🙏
I love this guy
My dad is going through this right now and the hospital released him he got home was talking about vietnam and hallucinating
I lost my dad in 92 he was 41 long story but I had just met him a year prior. Was adopted by my grandparents at 2 never knew my dad till 17. The year I knew him he was a full blown alcoholic drinking 1 case of beer and 2 pints of vodka a day no joke.. there were times his money was short he drank aqua velvet after shave and listermint at that time those items had really high alcohol content. I seen him shaking sweating took a job as security guard had to have vodka in a thermos to function it's was a sad time after seeing that I'm now 55 I never started drinking after that.. RIP DaD!!😢😢
i went through exactly how this is explained,what i remember..., soo much of this went on,, 13 months alcohol free now using Baclofen,, had a long time Seeing shadows things moving making me jump seeing them,,the people while in hos[pital were constant talking about you even though it was not real,,nasty stuff,,a few times i felt safer when i ran which once taken hospital heavely sedated and replaced missing fluids,, luckly i survived this, 6 months later ive had 2 seperate times of bleed on the brain and loosing weeks of memory,, i wouldnt wish this on anyone,,i should not of survived,,
Yeah, the hallucinations can be absolutely brutal. I went into a pretty bad alcohol withdrawal not too long ago, perhaps not quite true DTs but bad enough to cause the audio (and in a couple cases, visual) hallucinations. I very vividly remember falling “asleep” for around 1-2 minutes every couple hours and being suddenly startled back awake, and hearing a loud hissing sound for a moment. Another thing that happened several times was I would very loudly hear my neighbor’s voice sounding like she was being violently abused, which was obviously really disheartening to hear, and then the voice would kind of fade out after a minute or so and I’d be left wondering if that was even real. I’m convinced that alcohol withdrawal allows some kind of demon to get into your head and start doing really messed up things. And that kind of stuff was only the more mild side of it… I don’t ever want to experience anything like that again.
@@PERTEKofficial the wierd begining of this was the lack of sleep starting too take over while drinking and the dreams started too come more real life too the extent of outbursts at people that were not there,,but everything seemed so much ok at the time,, never get good halucination voices,,there were all evil and spoke nastly,, Alcohol had a dark side hiding and grew up with no explanation or warning ,,i struggled too ask about the situation because not many survived the experience,luckly videos like these give you advice your looking for
@@andrewjohnson8986 yep, I can 100% relate to that. Alcohol destroys REM sleep, so even when you’re drinking enough to get yourself to “fall asleep”, you still don’t get any REM sleep, which is the restful part that you need for your brain to work correctly. If you’re not getting that, “sleeping” for 8 hours is like getting 30 minutes of actual sleep. Eventually you reach that point where your brain starts entering a dream state while you’re awake, which only gets amplified to an extreme when you go into withdrawal (at least I think)
I’m sure when you were going through withdrawal, you probably also got those really screwed up “dreams” from hell for the brief moments that you ended up getting those microsleeps, I think that’s the reason that happens. There were a few of those that happened to me where I was just in my apartment, and this very strange lady would also be there. She’d never say anything, but in the first one she just entered and stayed completely motionless. In the 2nd one, there was a loud knocking on my door that kept getting faster and faster, and she was just standing there looking at me like “well, are you going to answer it?” - felt like death was knocking on my door and she was trying to get me to let it in… and again, these were just the “mild” dreams. There were a lot of them that I had that were absolutely terrifying, anything from very vividly getting shot through the heart and feeling every moment of it (that’s what happened when I answered the door in one of these dreams) to things that were purely demonic for lack of a better word.
Honestly, it’s crazy to me that this is the legally and socially acceptable drug. I’ve done a few psychedelics before and have had a bad trip once or twice, and that doesn’t even compare to how alcohol withdrawal feels/does. Alcohol is the only drug I’ve ever used that ends up doing _that_.
Anywho, I am glad that videos like these exist. I knew alcohol withdrawal was obviously not pleasant, but I didn’t know it does _that_ until I experienced it myself. But it’s thanks to videos like these that helped me understand how long it’ll last and when I’d start feeling normal again, and even if I’d need to go to the hospital. Honestly, these kinds of videos have probably saved a lot of lives.
@@PERTEKofficial i enjoy these experiences conservations,,exactly ,i stopped long time heavy drinking too quickly,,i was missing at night about a day but was found in no state of reality and taken in,, had my fair share of Mushrooms n LSD ,,i would seriously choose that option anytime still than that alcohol experience,, you keep good health
The shakes. Hell for me.
I went through the DT's in the hospital it sucked big fucking nuts
Is there any difference between DT's and alcoholic hallucinosis?
They’re different. Alcoholic Hallucinosis is when you have hallucinations in the absence of delirium during withdrawal. You’ll know what year, month, date it is, what’s going on around you, yet…. Be having visual/auditory hallucinations. I should have a video on it somewhere either in my general alcohol withdrawal video or possibly a dedicate video in the “addiction recovery” playlist
Great video, after so many years wondering what was going on with my brother now it makes sense. i have a brother that is an alcoholic for so many years. when he wakes up the first thing he looks for is alcohol. he drinks non stop and he started having these episodes 3 to 4 years ago. he starts by saying he wants to stop drinking and within 24hr he starts acting a bit disoriented but still knowing what's going on around him. 2nd day he starts hallucinating, sweating and gets to a point where he runs off and nowhere to be found. we have to keep him in a secured room so that he doesn't run off until he recovers again. these episodes go on for almost a week long and it takes about 4 to 6 months for him to get in that state and repeat the same thing once again. so could you please let me know what category he falls under and if there are any home remedies because we have tried taking him to a doctor but we cant afford it here in Zimbabwe. sorry my English is not so good, hope you understand
What about seizures? Where do they fit in? Thank you so much for your outstanding videos!!
See his video on alcohol withdrawal, he explains everything there!
I had some bad dt more than once but this one time was so bad so demonic i almost died like you just took some psychedelic which gives you intence hangover with hallucinations, if you drinking now DO NOT drink the day after drinking if you want drink every second day so you heal your hangover after day of drinking drink a lot eat a lot and take a herbal sleeping pill before bed but the hangover usually goes in the afternoon afte ONE day of drinking
About the almighty dollar dollar and I know people are mandated to beef facilities and don't want to get better and be there but I do get better and live again not just being a number
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very everything u say is ok.. but we are europeans.. keep up the good work