The night before my father died was the last time I had a drink. Its been 4 years now.. I went from a fat drunken loser in a beat up efficiency apartment to working a solid career, got into good shape physically, I have a wonderful and supportive girlfriend, and I still smile every time my mum says how its a miracle to have her son back. Good luck out there everyone, you can do whatever you set your minds to!
I was a functioning alcoholic and traveled frequently for work. Rather than stay at a hotel that was close to my client, I would find lodging based on the proximity to bars. My wake up call was blacking out on a trip to Boston and waking up in my hotel room with a black eye, and the rest of my body covered in bruises. Having no idea of what happened and fearing some individual(s) or the police were looking for me I panicked, immediately booked a flight home and checked out of my hotel. When I got home, I lived in fear that I had broken the law or had injured someone and that the authorities were looking for me. After a month I decided no more and poured every ounce of alcohol I had in the house down the drain. After 2 years, I’m still sober and have lost 75 pounds. It took about a year for the cravings to go away, but I still miss the social aspects. I’ll never drink again, I guess you could say I was scared straight.
Aww. Wish you all the best. Keep going. Im ready to start my own journey. Have ptsd and will not take medication. The alcohol is not serving me well now either. Its making my health bad.x
Man something similar happened to me. No where near that level, but I was SCARED shitless so I can’t even imagine the fear you went through. I was with some friends when I was about 22 and everyone wanted to call it an early night but I wanted to keep going. I told them I’d be back later and hit the town. For whatever reason I had my car keys with me the entire night. I don’t know if it was habit or what but that’s literally all I remembered. I don’t even remember getting back to their place but the next morning I woke up and my car was not in the lot. I instantly flashed back to me holding my keys and went into almost full panic attack mode because I could not for the life of me remember anything else. My very first thought was “what if I fucking killed someone drinking and driving???” And to not even remember it was terrifying. That’s how good people get wrapped up in bad shit. I thought about my car being smashed in somewhere on the street with the police trying to figure out what the hell happened… I actually went outside twice to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind. Turns out I wasn’t allowed to park there and my car had been towed. I was never so happy to pay money in my life to get it back just knowing I didn’t kill someone and ruin peoples lives. I still continued to drink after that… I’m 31 now and decided to put it down for good when I was 28. To think back on how reckless I was when I drank and how I don’t remember a lot of things, I’m lucky I’m alive or didn’t hurt someone. It’s no joke. I also miss the social aspects, the confidence I had was through the roof when I’m typically a more reserved and shy person. But it will never be enough to make me go back ever again!
Hell bells. Your story has given me the go ahead to really maintain self control around alcohol because I cant drink alot and with all the trauma I have experienced especially in the last 8 years my brain needs healing and those blackouts are a scary thing.
I had been drinking every night after work for about ten years. I've only recently discovered how extremely damaging alcohol is. I've almost completely cut my boos out now and can't believe how much better I sleep and feel now. I think drinking probably shouldn't be so glorified in society.
@ericgore3717 I always used to think I needed a drink to help me sleep. My sleep is bloody fantastic now I no longer drink. Drinking makes sleep much worse
@@trinitywildcat well I'll tell ya what...the government who jacks up my price of living and taxes to send money to that war you support makes me drink more.
I was drinking a handle a day of plastic bottle vodka, drinking around the clock and puking non stop. Finally, I went into some kind of coma. Medical detox, given 3 months to live, hospice. I was deathly sick and lost 40 lbs. Dying of liver failure and aceties is absolutely horrible. Somehow, I lived, and 6 years later no relapse and feel good. I live with cirrhosis, but have perfect blood work. Never give up. Get help today. You can quit.
Hey Leon! I’ll be 3 years sober in November and it all started with your videos. I never did your training but I binged all the videos you had out at the time and even the advice you put in them helped TREMENDOUSLY. You inspired me to get underneath the science of it all. I started snowballing into all of this different research and it really helped me appreciate my body. I used to be the person who’d drool anytime I saw someone drinking and now I don’t even think twice about it. I see it as drinking literal poison, and think how dumb it would be to keep destroying myself, my brain health, and my body on purpose. I have no idea how that happened but it did. Maybe through all that, my mindset really truly did just change. But thank you for what you do. You’re a great person!😊
I’ve watched many videos online for a couple of years trying to find one that will help me get sober and this is the first one I’ve watched that succinctly and accurately described the last 11 years of my life. I quit one week ago. Pre-occupation is still an issue. But I’ve successfully fought it because it’s the other six signs you listed that have motivated me to not go back to the bottle. Feeling good and already losing weight. Thank you for this video! I’m now a subscriber! That was an easy click. 🙂👍
I was still drinking when I started watching Leon and now I have 9 months. I was near death. I personally do the 12 steps and have a sponsor through AA. But his videos inspired me to have the courage to go forward. Don't give up ❤❤❤
After doing the most embarrassing things blackout drunk, picking fights with loved ones, and the worst depression I've ever had, it is blowing me away how much the mental fog is lifting and my relationships are improving. I wish i would have realized this sooner
I stopped cold turkey 6 months ago because of severe health issues that couldn’t be ignored. I still miss it, but know I am much much better off without it.
I've been sober for 4 years, you won't miss it after 2 years. I remember the first year I would miss it going into the grocery store thinking it would be nice to buy a bottle of wine. Now when I'm in the grocery store I look at alcohol like it's poison. Knowing that eventually it will kill me.
Pre-occupation with alcohol goes from factoring in availability of alcohol when making plans, to simply not making plans so you can just drink all night.
I drank every other weekend for 20 years, socially. My mum died and I spiraled downwards for 3 years. Blackouts became very regular, after a physical assault, I got a big wake up call. Haven't touched alcohol in 3 years. Best decision I made.
Hello mate, yeah I'm a musician in south africa and due to many traumas and bad experiences I have been drinking (mostly beer and occasionally whiskey) for a good 30 years now, (I'm 54) the best advice I can give is to think about your loved ones and approach sobriety as a project you're determined to give a go, after about a month you'll feel better I promise, if you're still not happy then try a month on and a month off. I tend to suffer from social anxieties and rely on booze to loosen me up. Not good. Anyhow, be strong and much love
Honey.... listen I'm 64 female I don't drink dem days been long long finished for me but bk in 2003 I unfortunately from cigarettes and birth control I had 2 strokes the 6 mos ago I was diagnosed w b cell lymphoma cancer I took 6 mos of chemotherapy and finished it all now I been told 3 mos ago I'm in complete remission hey. IS the booze worth living ill and miserable?? Maybe you feel nothing rt now belive me our health is priceless !! Put it down!!
Make it your top priority. Research all the ways to stop drinking. It can be hard if you have friends who are social drinkers. Don't wait until your health collapses.
Imagine going out with someone, having one drink,going back to the house,and 5 minutes later, he says, "Honey, you wanna go out?" Imagine having the driver drive you in a blackout state! Happy being sober, 40 lbs.thinner and free of the alcohol and alcoholic
After every night after work for 20 years, during Covid I lost and the drink took over. A litre of vodka a day, couldn't eat, couldn't walk, was loosing sense of what was reality and 47 years of age. Went to AA and got a lovely sponsor, I'm sober 4 years but stopped AA a year ago but I know I can go back anytime I want. Good luck to anyone who is trying to stop, I tried many times but I had to hit rock bottom before it worked.
I quit a month ago. Again. Foolishly after not drinking for 3 months starting this year, I thought it was enough to having a drink once in a while. After a month I was back to my usual again. Not a ton, but 2 beers a day, six pack strong tripel beers in the weekends. Enough to realize my relationship is unhealthy. Apart from the blackouts, all these are very relatable. I dont know if I will ever have a normal relationship with alcohol. I still have so many unused bottles of whiskey and cocktail staples in the house. So far I notice Im such a better person without it, so not sure if they will ever get used. Videos like this are a sign im on the right path though
Very helpful video, Leon! The effects of alcohol abuse often build up over time, which is why they can be "silent" in the early stages. Recognizing the warning signs of alcoholism is critical, because it helps you to intervene early and seek assistance before it's too late. If you're experiencing very serious health and mental issues, it’s time to get help. Take Care Everyone!👋❤
Get help, right, meaning what, loosing money on treatment, which might I remind you, you started drinking because you don't have much money. Kind of a "catch 22" isn't it?
I just loved going to bars…even though I was usually alone! It was my ‘fun’…especially going to watch sporting events! Finally as I got older, I decided it was pathetic to sit in a bar alone. My growing waistline and shrinking wallet also played a part in no longer going out!
I just cold turkey at 22 after destroying relationships and friendships. And using it to cope with my mental health. I suffer from extreme trauma from childhood. PTSD borderline personality disorder generalized anxiety disorder and major depression. It was something to cope with the pain. Now 2 and half years sober, I still smoke but whenever I go to pick up a pack of smokes I look at the back room with all the 40s I use to drink daily. My family comes from a long generation of alcoholics. But I just look away from it and remind myself that that road isn’t somewhere I want to revisit. Thank god I don’t use it to cope anymore and that I found better ways to cope with the mental pain. BPD is constant emotional pain and people like myself do anything and everything to feel something to help us and to feel like ourselves. We NEVER FEEL COMFORTABLE IN OUR SKIN. No matter what. It’s hard to understand or explain to people why we act the way we act and why we do what we do. I’ll never go back to drinking. Now 24 I look at a bottle and I immediately have PTSD over the problems I caused from that toxic poison. Now I’m on the road to peace, to lay my past demons to rest so they’ll stop haunting me with my regrets and mistakes. It’ll stay with you but it’s the steps you take to overcome it. It’s not as easy as saying hey I’m gonna go ahead and stop no relapsed a lot saying I’ll never go back, I’m not perfect. But that poison, It’s not worth it. I’m hoping anyone trying to break the cycle or getting sober, you will feel so much better as you get over the withdrawals. Take care of yourself. ❤️🤘🏼
I quit a month ago. I’m a binge drinker on my days off. The thing that made me quit was that one day, I drank an entire bottle of Jack Daniel’s and was still relatively functional after I woke up the following day. It wasn’t that I drank a whole bottle, it was that I drank a whole bottle and I wasn’t bed ridden. That made me realize that it was time to hang it up
I don’t drink but have a friend who is currently a highly functioning alcoholic. She drinks heavily on a daily basis and it’s crushing to watch. A medical friend told me there is not much I can do because I have no training to handle it. Just hate watching it play out and to know what probably lies ahead
I haven't had a drink in months and I feel exactly the same. Drank about a Sixpack per night. The only effect is had is making me a lot more boring. Maybe a little less sluggish in the morning, but only slightly.
Been drinking regularly for 2 years or so. Although, I never had blackouts, I did have an episode of heart palpitations and arrhythmia, ether Afib, or tachycardia, or both. Even went to the ER. However, I only stopped drinking for a week. Then I got back to drinking. Everything was fine until one day I had another episode of heart arrhythmia, and I had high blood pressure. Scared the crap out of me. Though I was going to die of sudden cardiac arrest. So I have firmly decided to stop drinking. It was only two days ago. I hope my blood pressure goes back down to normal and my heart never goes haywire again. Alcohol is poison. Don't drink it.
I never think about alcohol at all during the week . But Saturday evening jesus all I think about is when I put my child to sleep i can have a few drinks, I don't get blackout drunk I have about 5 or 6 drinks then I'm done, but I hate the fact I'd tell myself next morning I'm not doing that next Saturday and I'd do again . 4 weeks now , the first Saturday was the most difficult, I grabbed my wallet 4 times to go corner shop , then eventually I settled on a coffee loo
Daily I was doing my job at night drinking every day I was an alcoholic for nearly 20 years then acute pancreatitis hit me it nearly killed me let me tell you the pain on a scale of 1 to 10 I’d say twenty oh my god that pain the hospital saved me I salute them I’ve been 12 years sober the only way i will beat this alcoholism is when I die a sober man greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was also hospitalized with acute pancreatitis in Bozeman Montana last yr almost life flighted to saltlake city Utah. The pain was to much pain meds wouldn't touch it! Kept having nurses bring me ice packs for 3 days. Not a heavy drinker maybe 8-10 beers an evening no hard booze
Alcohol is the driving force of a lifestyle revolving around booze. Change the lifestyle and you change the reason to drink alcohol. I eliminated the lifestyle and alcohol did not fit in my new lifestyle so i had no reason to booze. One easy way to explain, i loved the casinos, sports book action and gambling. I loved hanging out and betting talking sports bets. This lifestyle everyone is boozing so it was easy for me to do the same. Today i workout 5 hours a day with 3 hours art the gym. I love talking exercise, training and enjoy every moment of interaction with like minded people. No one drinks before during or after working out and neither do i as i would not workout the next day or 2 or more.my new lifestyle is not alcohol centric so i don;t drink. Consider changing the lifestyle first then going sober will come naturally. Worked for me.
This is SO great to read Brett. My lifestyle is all about drinking and by drinking so much, I never do the exercise that I want to do. Hangovers the day after, mean that I never exercise the next day either. Inspiring comment mate, things are going to change.
I used to drink a lot a lot of times because I was around it at a Young age and also was told that marijuana was worse when it is better marijuana does not kill but alcohol does thank Jesus for legalizing marijuana in Canada God bless all
I had an uncle that did every unhealthy thing so called experts said not to do. He drank like a fish, smoked tobacco, ate a high fat bacon butter beef almost carnivore diet, lived near the smog zone of the business Sea-Tac airport nearby & had to sweep aircraft engine soot off his roof every so often, and was able to keep up with me hiking steep trails in my middle 20's when he was in his middle 80's and he told me "its the mind, no the stuff, not the food, not the drinks, not the money" " its what you believe and think about it and life" and he was an upbeat hopeful person who looked forward to every day & made it until almost 100 years old. Some of it must be genetic, social, emotional, mental, since the mind body relationship means those affect the physical health, digestion, heart health, sleep etc
You're uncle sounded like a very wise man. I think a lot of it is down to your mental attitude. Stress which can be very difficult to control is far more damaging to our bodies than the vices we choose.
So many of the longest-lived people had bad habits. Anyone ever remember seeing George burns without a tumbler of hard in his hand and a cigar in his mouth? Yet the man lived to 101. The French lady holding the world record at 127 drank wine daily since a young age, and smoked until she went blind at age 110. Definitely more to it than just the alcohol!
My mother just turned 90 and has been drunk literally almost every day for 60 years. She downs a few Martinis on Sunday and then drives to church. She is also self-sufficient and lives alone. So you can make it work if you are responsible.
Happy that i have stopped , its my 10th day without alcohol , i know it is not a long time but i had to stop . I had panick attack nearly everyday in the last month of drinking , i am only 28 , and my birthday is the day i stopped !
Thank you for the support , today is a really sunny day where I live, the thought of a drink came into my mind ... trying to stay strong here , not easy everyday but I made a mocktail instead ! Keep it up everyone
I’m in my 5th summer going without. I wish I stopped decades earlier. Kicked it at age 65. Lost 45 lbs and got physically active. I feel better than when I was 40. My come to Jesus was a 3 day hangover while my urine was literally brown. I watched 3 days worth of videos like this and kicked it away forever.
Good video. Some of those signs happened to me. I got to the point where I had a backup bottle in case i got low and couldn't get to the store. Also, I was excited about the evening time when it was okay to start drinking. I'm not as convinced about eating more with drinking... i always forced myself to eat something before i had a drink so I wouldn't get a hangover (as bad). No blackouts for me. I did increase my one drink a night to two. And went from skipping a day or two to drinking every day. When drinking became the high point of my day and my life, i knew it was time to change.
Made the decision to get my shit together today. I can’t eat food without my mouth hurting, can’t drink anything but water because it hurts. Wake up call for sure. Also the threat of my company firing me today from missing work from being too hungover.
Thanks for your videos, really good stuff. Could you also perhaps do some more positive/carrot videos, as well as the negative/stick ones you do? Eg “here are all the things that will get better once you stop” (how fast does the brain, liver etc recover?). Thanks !
I’m typically a calm, relaxed person, unless I’m drinking. Then I’d become a neurotic mess. After 21 years chasing the dragon, I sobered up, finally. I’m 3 years sober now and I feel like a totally different person. Ironically, I’m paying for the mistakes of someone I no longer relate to.
I live alone, I have always lived alone since I left my parents' home when I was 23. In the last 8yrs,I have been hooked up to serious alcohol drinking not cos I am stressed but cos I got influenced by friends and colleagues which left me buying a lot of alcohol to keep in my house. I wish someone told me that it raises your blood pressure and heart beats. In my mother tongue, it say everybody in this world must learn what is expected of them via their own book. I learned it the hard way, after a wkd of wine, beer, and whisky drinking, my blood pressure got raised from 140/88 to 200/110. Doctors lowered it, did cit scan but till today, I still have problems with both my heart and BP.
In my case it actually helped me because my metabolism is fast and I was becoming malnourished. I replaced alcohol with eating. Not necessarily junk food. I now maintain a healthy weight.
Know that your existence is meant to progress the universe to its natural conclusion of heat death and revel in the chaos of sober living. To miss out on this life by dulling the senses is a disservice to the spectacle that surrounds, pervades, and moves us.
It is some sad, cruel, cold, weird, getting harder & more expensive reality out there. Abusing alcohol to cope with it doesn't work either, nor does cannabis, tobacco or food abuse. The best thing is to just say "Its not my fault, all the bad happening in the world, I will do my best to be a decent reasonable person and make a positive difference wherever I can in my daily reality, even if that means just being friendly and polite"
I'll be 14 months sober on Monday. The only one that wasn't true for me is weight. I drank vodka and zero sugar gatorade and not much to eat. Now, I am so bad with the sugar but it has been a tad better. I rather go on a diet than hope for a liver transplant.
My older brother was an alcoholic and he died from liver failure October 2016. He slowly turned yellow, starting with whites of his eyes.He got more and more yellow and looked like a ghoul. He became weak, itchy and was always cold. His doctor admitted him to Palliative where he slowly petered out until he died in his sleep. The entire process was 12 days. He was 54. Alcohol is NOT your friend.
If sleeping pills do not work, what other choice do you have? Involuntarily on the wagon because I can't afford whiskey and the insomnia is making me crazy from lack of sleep
@@TheSleepingonit Try Brand name Gravol. [orange pills, not capsules] It works for me. Only take 1 though or it makes you groggy . I take 1 about 1 hour before I want to go to bed. Try white noise too. [a fan]
Does this really work? Mine is totally situational. 😢 I need to quit for upcoming surgery. Went 10 days sober while away. got home and fell into the same bad habit.
My husband is in complete denial that there is a problem, he doesn't even try to hide the drinking. He gets staggering drunk and can be verbally abusive. Quite often he can't remember what has happened the night before. I've tried to talk to him about it over the years but he just says most men like a few beers after work. I'd class a few beers as maybe 3 or 4 not 7 or more
Yeah I dealt with 13 yrs of that including him urinating when blacked out. So all our furniture was piss stained and drenched multiple times...needless to say I didn't take any furniture when I left. He died 10 yrs later at 47 from heart attack and our son found him (he was 20). Very sad all the way around, he was a good person sober. Drank mostly beer, some whiskey which he hid so I don't know how much of that and smoked cigarettes. Also had high bp, tryglicerides and liver enzymes he never attempted to control. I hope things turn around for yall and that yall can make it thru together. The booze is not worth it at all, for sure.
The cover to your video made me want to watch it. I've been drinking since age 14. I'm now almost 40 and finally deciding to quit. My eyes are frequently red in the morning. But you didn't mention anything about red eyes. Or did you make that your cover because your eye is red? Just curious
I have stopped drinking every day for several months now, however I do not feel the huge benefits everyone else seems to feel. I feel more or less the same, but less happy.
I know someone that is an alcoholic. He is often in denial that he is one. Has said on multiple occasions that he wants to quit, but hasn't been successful. Sometimes he's cool even when drinking and other times he lets his intrusive thoughts win and he becomes someone I hardly recognize. He's not violent, just often belligerent with his words. He's lodt more than he's gained as far as friends and family is concerned.
I am surprised how much negativity and hopelessness I experienced the next day. That forced me to drink even more. Alcohol makes you feel very negative after a few hours.
I have taken 1 shot of strong alcohol every evening for some years. I only take as much as I feel the similar level of effect as my morning coffee. I don't know if it is harming me, and I do not have any motivation or big reason to change it.
Alchohol suppressed my appetite, but that was my only source of calories for a long time. When I quit the drink, I fasted 3 days & went carnivore, I lost 40 lbs in a month and a half. Another serious side effect is swelling limbs!
I like your video, its nice. But I must add that alcoholics that don't eat anything are the worst kind, and die much faster, and have a really bad time of it. Please put this in further literature. Thank you.
I've never done hardcore drugs but, I tried both nicotine and alcohol at separate times for a few weeks. I quit them because I saw no real reason to do them or get addicted to them. I couldn't get past the taste of alcohol and the coughing fits of vaping/smoking.
"Passing out" is just a dramatic term for falling asleep. Blackouts are not necessary for addiction. I'm an alcoholic addict drinking around 45 drinks per week average and rarely forget things. 1.5 ounces per 80 proof drink, US standard.
I tried giving up alcohol and did it for months, or so i thought..alcohol is in so many medicines and fermented foods...hot cross buns has alcohol in, if you each a few of them then your over thr driving limit, people actually got arrested in my country. So i realised i actually never gave up alcohol for 9 months...but i drink responsibly now, 3 drinks a month, if that.
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46 days sober today and feel great!!! Let’s keep pushing to stay healthy friends 😊
The night before my father died was the last time I had a drink.
Its been 4 years now..
I went from a fat drunken loser in a beat up efficiency apartment to working a solid career, got into good shape physically, I have a wonderful and supportive girlfriend, and I still smile every time my mum says how its a miracle to have her son back.
Good luck out there everyone, you can do whatever you set your minds to!
Please don't use the word LOSER. Its not at all helpful.
Congratulations on 4 years clean, clearly you are no kind of loser!
Always good to hear a winner story.
@@marietighe6328your comment isn’t helpful!
Heart warming inspirational story! Thanks for sharing 😊
2 weeks sober after 20yrs being a slave to alcohol. I feel amazing
Hang in there. Because you are about to feel really high highs and low lows.
Keep going mate you're doing fantastic.
What about that Goat?
Same here . 20 + years . 3 duis , 4 wrecked cars .. I’m 26 days sober .. feeling better, motivated .. having unusual heartburn though …
19months here
I was a functioning alcoholic and traveled frequently for work. Rather than stay at a hotel that was close to my client, I would find lodging based on the proximity to bars. My wake up call was blacking out on a trip to Boston and waking up in my hotel room with a black eye, and the rest of my body covered in bruises. Having no idea of what happened and fearing some individual(s) or the police were looking for me I panicked, immediately booked a flight home and checked out of my hotel. When I got home, I lived in fear that I had broken the law or had injured someone and that the authorities were looking for me. After a month I decided no more and poured every ounce of alcohol I had in the house down the drain. After 2 years, I’m still sober and have lost 75 pounds. It took about a year for the cravings to go away, but I still miss the social aspects. I’ll never drink again, I guess you could say I was scared straight.
Aww. Wish you all the best. Keep going. Im ready to start my own journey. Have ptsd and will not take medication. The alcohol is not serving me well now either. Its making my health bad.x
Man something similar happened to me. No where near that level, but I was SCARED shitless so I can’t even imagine the fear you went through. I was with some friends when I was about 22 and everyone wanted to call it an early night but I wanted to keep going. I told them I’d be back later and hit the town. For whatever reason I had my car keys with me the entire night. I don’t know if it was habit or what but that’s literally all I remembered. I don’t even remember getting back to their place but the next morning I woke up and my car was not in the lot. I instantly flashed back to me holding my keys and went into almost full panic attack mode because I could not for the life of me remember anything else. My very first thought was “what if I fucking killed someone drinking and driving???” And to not even remember it was terrifying. That’s how good people get wrapped up in bad shit. I thought about my car being smashed in somewhere on the street with the police trying to figure out what the hell happened… I actually went outside twice to make sure I wasn’t losing my mind. Turns out I wasn’t allowed to park there and my car had been towed. I was never so happy to pay money in my life to get it back just knowing I didn’t kill someone and ruin peoples lives. I still continued to drink after that… I’m 31 now and decided to put it down for good when I was 28. To think back on how reckless I was when I drank and how I don’t remember a lot of things, I’m lucky I’m alive or didn’t hurt someone. It’s no joke. I also miss the social aspects, the confidence I had was through the roof when I’m typically a more reserved and shy person. But it will never be enough to make me go back ever again!
Hell bells. Your story has given me the go ahead to really maintain self control around alcohol because I cant drink alot and with all the trauma I have experienced especially in the last 8 years my brain needs healing and those blackouts are a scary thing.
That's honestly amazing
@sandtoy11510 Good for you. It took about 3 years for my cravings to end. I can never go into a pizza place ever again, however.
I had been drinking every night after work for about ten years. I've only recently discovered how extremely damaging alcohol is. I've almost completely cut my boos out now and can't believe how much better I sleep and feel now. I think drinking probably shouldn't be so glorified in society.
True👍
@ericgore3717 I always used to think I needed a drink to help me sleep.
My sleep is bloody fantastic now I no longer drink.
Drinking makes sleep much worse
@@trinitywildcat well I'll tell ya what...the government who jacks up my price of living and taxes to send money to that war you support makes me drink more.
I was drinking a handle a day of plastic bottle vodka, drinking around the clock and puking non stop. Finally, I went into some kind of coma. Medical detox, given 3 months to live, hospice. I was deathly sick and lost 40 lbs. Dying of liver failure and aceties is absolutely horrible. Somehow, I lived, and 6 years later no relapse and feel good. I live with cirrhosis, but have perfect blood work. Never give up. Get help today. You can quit.
I've tried so msg times went 6 weeks adhd went back
I started out going out to drink 15 years ago but I heard God's voice say, "This is not for you". I left it alone.
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I think your wife was disguing her voice.
@@hotrodvette I said, God's voice.
So God wants some of us to drink since he doesn't talk to us? Or are you just that special that God saved you but won't save most of us?
Hey Leon! I’ll be 3 years sober in November and it all started with your videos. I never did your training but I binged all the videos you had out at the time and even the advice you put in them helped TREMENDOUSLY. You inspired me to get underneath the science of it all. I started snowballing into all of this different research and it really helped me appreciate my body. I used to be the person who’d drool anytime I saw someone drinking and now I don’t even think twice about it. I see it as drinking literal poison, and think how dumb it would be to keep destroying myself, my brain health, and my body on purpose. I have no idea how that happened but it did. Maybe through all that, my mindset really truly did just change. But thank you for what you do. You’re a great person!😊
13 years in this month and living my best life.
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Well done, wishing you well on your ongoing recovery.
Be in control
Dont let the drink control you
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3months sober ❤
I’ve watched many videos online for a couple of years trying to find one that will help me get sober and this is the first one I’ve watched that succinctly and accurately described the last 11 years of my life. I quit one week ago. Pre-occupation is still an issue. But I’ve successfully fought it because it’s the other six signs you listed that have motivated me to not go back to the bottle. Feeling good and already losing weight. Thank you for this video! I’m now a subscriber! That was an easy click. 🙂👍
I follow you coz a been addicted for 4years now trying to quit but is harder than i imagined
I was still drinking when I started watching Leon and now I have 9 months. I was near death. I personally do the 12 steps and have a sponsor through AA. But his videos inspired me to have the courage to go forward. Don't give up ❤❤❤
Sober friends and sober activity. A.A./ N.A.
Ask your Dr for naltrexone. There are pills to reduce your craving for alcohol
@@jaredsmith112yeah, campral, baclofen,and like you said Naltrexone, and heaps more medications
It’s hard no doubt, but you can do it. 😉
1. Pre-occupied with alcohol
2. Increasing tolerance
3. Weight Gain
4. Blackouts
5. Irregular heart rate
6. Increased blood pressure
7. Lies and deceptive behaviour (minimising ur addiction)
First ❤. And 1 year without a drink
Me too 👍
Back again, my daily "rehab" class.
1 year ,4 month. No beer. No wine. Walking everyday 16 month.
After doing the most embarrassing things blackout drunk, picking fights with loved ones, and the worst depression I've ever had, it is blowing me away how much the mental fog is lifting and my relationships are improving. I wish i would have realized this sooner
I stopped cold turkey 6 months ago because of severe health issues that couldn’t be ignored. I still miss it, but know I am much much better off without it.
I've been sober for 4 years, you won't miss it after 2 years. I remember the first year I would miss it going into the grocery store thinking it would be nice to buy a bottle of wine. Now when I'm in the grocery store I look at alcohol like it's poison. Knowing that eventually it will kill me.
Keep it up pal don't look for excuses to start I've done 8 years now it get easier after a few months good luck Tek care 👍🏴🦊
Did you get a belly pain that never went away until after a year?
@@w0225766 Not sure why but I didn't get any withdrawal pain or reaction I can remember been eight years ago now Tek care 👍🏴🦊
Gosh wish my health issues would make me fully stop. They did for 17 months then life got too much again 😔
Pre-occupation with alcohol goes from factoring in availability of alcohol when making plans, to simply not making plans so you can just drink all night.
I drank every other weekend for 20 years, socially. My mum died and I spiraled downwards for 3 years. Blackouts became very regular, after a physical assault, I got a big wake up call. Haven't touched alcohol in 3 years. Best decision I made.
Did u withdraw
I'm 67 I've been drinking since 1972 I want to stop but I don't want to end up miserable
Man I’m 63 I want to stop but love fun
Hello mate, yeah I'm a musician in south africa and due to many traumas and bad experiences I have been drinking (mostly beer and occasionally whiskey) for a good 30 years now, (I'm 54) the best advice I can give is to think about your loved ones and approach sobriety as a project you're determined to give a go, after about a month you'll feel better I promise, if you're still not happy then try a month on and a month off. I tend to suffer from social anxieties and rely on booze to loosen me up. Not good. Anyhow, be strong and much love
Honey.... listen I'm 64 female I don't drink dem days been long long finished for me but bk in 2003 I unfortunately from cigarettes and birth control I had 2 strokes the 6 mos ago I was diagnosed w b cell lymphoma cancer I took 6 mos of chemotherapy and finished it all now I been told 3 mos ago I'm in complete remission hey. IS the booze worth living ill and miserable?? Maybe you feel nothing rt now belive me our health is priceless !! Put it down!!
@janiceaguilar3593 some of us have emotional trauma so it's worse living sober than risk physical illness. Most people could never understand
Alcohol is a depressant. You will feel much happier without it.
Hit 8 years sober this past March... Everything in the video is spot on.
3 years this weekend. I was in the hospital dying of liver failure. Quitting was my only option.
I'm worried about my husband. His AST is way off. He drinks everyday after work. Congrats on you making this change.
@@reneb6702 you're probably going to lose him unless he chooses to not drink.
I drink almost every night. I do want to stop, I don't know how . The weekends are the worst
Make it your top priority. Research all the ways to stop drinking. It can be hard if you have friends who are social drinkers. Don't wait until your health collapses.
Imagine going out with someone, having one drink,going back to the house,and 5 minutes later, he says, "Honey, you wanna go out?" Imagine having the driver drive you in a blackout state! Happy being sober, 40 lbs.thinner and free of the alcohol and alcoholic
After every night after work for 20 years, during Covid I lost and the drink took over. A litre of vodka a day, couldn't eat, couldn't walk, was loosing sense of what was reality and 47 years of age. Went to AA and got a lovely sponsor, I'm sober 4 years but stopped AA a year ago but I know I can go back anytime I want. Good luck to anyone who is trying to stop, I tried many times but I had to hit rock bottom before it worked.
I quit a month ago. Again. Foolishly after not drinking for 3 months starting this year, I thought it was enough to having a drink once in a while. After a month I was back to my usual again. Not a ton, but 2 beers a day, six pack strong tripel beers in the weekends. Enough to realize my relationship is unhealthy. Apart from the blackouts, all these are very relatable. I dont know if I will ever have a normal relationship with alcohol. I still have so many unused bottles of whiskey and cocktail staples in the house. So far I notice Im such a better person without it, so not sure if they will ever get used. Videos like this are a sign im on the right path though
Very helpful video, Leon! The effects of alcohol abuse often build up over time, which is why they can be "silent" in the early stages. Recognizing the warning signs of alcoholism is critical, because it helps you to intervene early and seek assistance before it's too late. If you're experiencing very serious health and mental issues, it’s time to get help. Take Care Everyone!👋❤
Get help, right, meaning what, loosing money on treatment, which might I remind you, you started drinking because you don't have much money. Kind of a "catch 22" isn't it?
@GloeJassie seems like it's best to just quit on your own. Like I did. 3 months alcohol free.
One of the best videos, Leon! The parts on health issues are well-researched and well presented as well. Keep doing the right thing!
Coming up to ten years clean and sober ❤❤❤
I just loved going to bars…even though I was usually alone! It was my ‘fun’…especially going to watch sporting events! Finally as I got older, I decided it was pathetic to sit in a bar alone. My growing waistline and shrinking wallet also played a part in no longer going out!
We’re you living in a city? I could never get away with that in my small town..
Ive got a drinking issue and i appreciate this presentation....very smartly put
I just cold turkey at 22 after destroying relationships and friendships. And using it to cope with my mental health. I suffer from extreme trauma from childhood. PTSD borderline personality disorder generalized anxiety disorder and major depression. It was something to cope with the pain. Now 2 and half years sober, I still smoke but whenever I go to pick up a pack of smokes I look at the back room with all the 40s I use to drink daily. My family comes from a long generation of alcoholics. But I just look away from it and remind myself that that road isn’t somewhere I want to revisit. Thank god I don’t use it to cope anymore and that I found better ways to cope with the mental pain. BPD is constant emotional pain and people like myself do anything and everything to feel something to help us and to feel like ourselves. We NEVER FEEL COMFORTABLE IN OUR SKIN. No matter what. It’s hard to understand or explain to people why we act the way we act and why we do what we do. I’ll never go back to drinking. Now 24 I look at a bottle and I immediately have PTSD over the problems I caused from that toxic poison. Now I’m on the road to peace, to lay my past demons to rest so they’ll stop haunting me with my regrets and mistakes. It’ll stay with you but it’s the steps you take to overcome it. It’s not as easy as saying hey I’m gonna go ahead and stop no relapsed a lot saying I’ll never go back, I’m not perfect. But that poison, It’s not worth it. I’m hoping anyone trying to break the cycle or getting sober, you will feel so much better as you get over the withdrawals. Take care of yourself. ❤️🤘🏼
I quit a month ago. I’m a binge drinker on my days off. The thing that made me quit was that one day, I drank an entire bottle of Jack Daniel’s and was still relatively functional after I woke up the following day. It wasn’t that I drank a whole bottle, it was that I drank a whole bottle and I wasn’t bed ridden. That made me realize that it was time to hang it up
I don’t drink but have a friend who is currently a highly functioning alcoholic. She drinks heavily on a daily basis and it’s crushing to watch. A medical friend told me there is not much I can do because I have no training to handle it. Just hate watching it play out and to know what probably lies ahead
Good on you for watching videos like this to try to help her. 👍🙏 Here’s hoping someday she will recognize it too and take action.
I haven't had a drink in months and I feel exactly the same. Drank about a Sixpack per night. The only effect is had is making me a lot more boring. Maybe a little less sluggish in the morning, but only slightly.
Been drinking regularly for 2 years or so. Although, I never had blackouts, I did have an episode of heart palpitations and arrhythmia, ether Afib, or tachycardia, or both. Even went to the ER. However, I only stopped drinking for a week. Then I got back to drinking. Everything was fine until one day I had another episode of heart arrhythmia, and I had high blood pressure. Scared the crap out of me. Though I was going to die of sudden cardiac arrest. So I have firmly decided to stop drinking. It was only two days ago. I hope my blood pressure goes back down to normal and my heart never goes haywire again. Alcohol is poison. Don't drink it.
I never think about alcohol at all during the week . But Saturday evening jesus all I think about is when I put my child to sleep i can have a few drinks, I don't get blackout drunk I have about 5 or 6 drinks then I'm done, but I hate the fact I'd tell myself next morning I'm not doing that next Saturday and I'd do again . 4 weeks now , the first Saturday was the most difficult, I grabbed my wallet 4 times to go corner shop , then eventually I settled on a coffee loo
Daily I was doing my job at night drinking every day I was an alcoholic for nearly 20 years then acute pancreatitis hit me it nearly killed me let me tell you the pain on a scale of 1 to 10 I’d say twenty oh my god that pain the hospital saved me I salute them I’ve been 12 years sober the only way i will beat this alcoholism is when I die a sober man greetings from Scotland 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was also hospitalized with acute pancreatitis in Bozeman Montana last yr almost life flighted to saltlake city Utah. The pain was to much pain meds wouldn't touch it! Kept having nurses bring me ice packs for 3 days. Not a heavy drinker maybe 8-10 beers an evening no hard booze
Alcohol gives you wings to fly. Then takes away the sky.
Alcohol is the driving force of a lifestyle revolving around booze. Change the lifestyle and you change the reason to drink alcohol. I eliminated the lifestyle and alcohol did not fit in my new lifestyle so i had no reason to booze. One easy way to explain, i loved the casinos, sports book action and gambling. I loved hanging out and betting talking sports bets. This lifestyle everyone is boozing so it was easy for me to do the same. Today i workout 5 hours a day with 3 hours art the gym. I love talking exercise, training and enjoy every moment of interaction with like minded people. No one drinks before during or after working out and neither do i as i would not workout the next day or 2 or more.my new lifestyle is not alcohol centric so i don;t drink. Consider changing the lifestyle first then going sober will come naturally. Worked for me.
This is SO great to read Brett. My lifestyle is all about drinking and by drinking so much, I never do the exercise that I want to do. Hangovers the day after, mean that I never exercise the next day either. Inspiring comment mate, things are going to change.
I used to drink a lot a lot of times because I was around it at a Young age and also was told that marijuana was worse when it is better marijuana does not kill but alcohol does thank Jesus for legalizing marijuana in Canada God bless all
I had an uncle that did every unhealthy thing so called experts said not to do. He drank like a fish, smoked tobacco, ate a high fat bacon butter beef almost carnivore diet, lived near the smog zone of the business Sea-Tac airport nearby & had to sweep aircraft engine soot off his roof every so often, and was able to keep up with me hiking steep trails in my middle 20's when he was in his middle 80's and he told me "its the mind, no the stuff, not the food, not the drinks, not the money" " its what you believe and think about it and life" and he was an upbeat hopeful person who looked forward to every day & made it until almost 100 years old. Some of it must be genetic, social, emotional, mental, since the mind body relationship means those affect the physical health, digestion, heart health, sleep etc
You're uncle sounded like a very wise man. I think a lot of it is down to your mental attitude. Stress which can be very difficult to control is far more damaging to our bodies than the vices we choose.
My mom drank until 81. Cancer got her. She helped so many people who had no one. It's definitely not just the drink.
So many of the longest-lived people had bad habits. Anyone ever remember seeing George burns without a tumbler of hard in his hand and a cigar in his mouth? Yet the man lived to 101. The French lady holding the world record at 127 drank wine daily since a young age, and smoked until she went blind at age 110. Definitely more to it than just the alcohol!
Wow, thank you for sharing this!!! 🙏
Pry his diet helped.
My mother just turned 90 and has been drunk literally almost every day for 60 years. She downs a few Martinis on Sunday and then drives to church. She is also self-sufficient and lives alone. So you can make it work if you are responsible.
Happy that i have stopped , its my 10th day without alcohol , i know it is not a long time but i had to stop .
I had panick attack nearly everyday in the last month of drinking , i am only 28 , and my birthday is the day i stopped !
I got 10 days as well
Best birthday gift you’ve ever received. The gift of sobriety.. treasure it 💛🙏
Congratulations on your 28th Birthday and its probably the best present that you could give yourself.
@@stylewithaltitudeWell done❤
Thank you for the support , today is a really sunny day where I live, the thought of a drink came into my mind ... trying to stay strong here , not easy everyday but I made a mocktail instead ! Keep it up everyone
I’m in my 5th summer going without. I wish I stopped decades earlier. Kicked it at age 65. Lost 45 lbs and got physically active. I feel better than when I was 40. My come to Jesus was a 3 day hangover while my urine was literally brown. I watched 3 days worth of videos like this and kicked it away forever.
I love how I wake up to this after a hard night. Thank u Il subscribe
Algorithm is working!
Good video. Some of those signs happened to me. I got to the point where I had a backup bottle in case i got low and couldn't get to the store. Also, I was excited about the evening time when it was okay to start drinking. I'm not as convinced about eating more with drinking... i always forced myself to eat something before i had a drink so I wouldn't get a hangover (as bad). No blackouts for me. I did increase my one drink a night to two. And went from skipping a day or two to drinking every day. When drinking became the high point of my day and my life, i knew it was time to change.
Mind starting to adapt to constantly having alcohol in the system is the first sign
I don't drink myself but I watch lots of these type of videos because my dad is killing himself with alcohol but he won't stop :( makes me so sad
3 years sober here no AA which is bs actually ~ was awful for my prior sobriety. Good stuff here!
The book "The Easy Way to Control Alcohol" by Allen Carr is all that's necessay to read or listen to.
This is all so uncomfortable and so true I'm so glad I gave up this very accessible and fashionable poison I feel so healthy and well balanced ❤
Made the decision to get my shit together today. I can’t eat food without my mouth hurting, can’t drink anything but water because it hurts. Wake up call for sure. Also the threat of my company firing me today from missing work from being too hungover.
That's the nature of the beast. All the best with getting on top of it mate.
Thanks for your videos, really good stuff. Could you also perhaps do some more positive/carrot videos, as well as the negative/stick ones you do? Eg “here are all the things that will get better once you stop” (how fast does the brain, liver etc recover?). Thanks !
Keep searching and you will find the videos Leo has done on how body organs recover when you stop drinking ethanol.
I’m typically a calm, relaxed person, unless I’m drinking. Then I’d become a neurotic mess. After 21 years chasing the dragon, I sobered up, finally. I’m 3 years sober now and I feel like a totally different person. Ironically, I’m paying for the mistakes of someone I no longer relate to.
I heard about Ptosis (when you see abnormal eye drooping, nerves of your eyes affected.
When I was a alcoholic I had no appetite and wouldn’t eat all day and had to force myself to eat.
I live alone, I have always lived alone since I left my parents' home when I was 23. In the last 8yrs,I have been hooked up to serious alcohol drinking not cos I am stressed but cos I got influenced by friends and colleagues which left me buying a lot of alcohol to keep in my house. I wish someone told me that it raises your blood pressure and heart beats. In my mother tongue, it say everybody in this world must learn what is expected of them via their own book. I learned it the hard way, after a wkd of wine, beer, and whisky drinking, my blood pressure got raised from 140/88 to 200/110. Doctors lowered it, did cit scan but till today, I still have problems with both my heart and BP.
Take vitamin b1..it did wonders for me...also a bcomplex...and magnesium
All of this is really hitting home hard , I'm 7 days off alcohol and I don't ever want to drink again
Thank you for the wisdom.
I am cutting down on my alcohol.
Goal, no drinking by Jan 1 (date set).
@@dipaknadkarni62 you can do it if you set your mind to it
Watch huberman pod cast on alcohol as well.
Alcohol addicts usually crave sugar after they stop the alcohol! Weight gain can occur if one doesn’t curb one’s sweet craving!!
In my case it actually helped me because my metabolism is fast and I was becoming malnourished. I replaced alcohol with eating. Not necessarily junk food. I now maintain a healthy weight.
This would be enough to scare someone from drinking!
I have all of these except for #3, only because I feel like eating a perfect diet helps me be able to drink more.
Let's try liver enzymes & Metabolic lab tests, A1C tests etc.
Man look at the state of the world. If you aint drinking heavily by now i dont know how you're making it through.
Know that your existence is meant to progress the universe to its natural conclusion of heat death and revel in the chaos of sober living. To miss out on this life by dulling the senses is a disservice to the spectacle that surrounds, pervades, and moves us.
Oh so fucking true, oh to go back to the 80s and 90s when the world made sense
Drugs, hardcore drugs.
It is some sad, cruel, cold, weird, getting harder & more expensive reality out there. Abusing alcohol to cope with it doesn't work either, nor does cannabis, tobacco or food abuse. The best thing is to just say "Its not my fault, all the bad happening in the world, I will do my best to be a decent reasonable person and make a positive difference wherever I can in my daily reality, even if that means just being friendly and polite"
Ditto
I'll be 14 months sober on Monday. The only one that wasn't true for me is weight. I drank vodka and zero sugar gatorade and not much to eat. Now, I am so bad with the sugar but it has been a tad better. I rather go on a diet than hope for a liver transplant.
My older brother was an alcoholic and he died from liver failure October 2016. He slowly turned yellow, starting with whites of his eyes.He got more and more yellow and looked like a ghoul. He became weak, itchy and was always cold. His doctor admitted him to Palliative where he slowly petered out until he died in his sleep. The entire process was 12 days. He was 54. Alcohol is NOT your friend.
If sleeping pills do not work, what other choice do you have? Involuntarily on the wagon because I can't afford whiskey and the insomnia is making me crazy from lack of sleep
@@TheSleepingonit Try Brand name Gravol. [orange pills, not capsules] It works for me. Only take 1 though or it makes you groggy . I take 1 about 1 hour before I want to go to bed. Try white noise too. [a fan]
@@TheSleepingonitalcohol does not help you sleep. It gets you to sleep but then it also wakes you up a lot. What you say is actually untrue
@@TheSleepingonitmagnesium glycenate and/or melatonin.
You'd probably really benefit from magnesium cuz drinking alot depletes it.
Does this really work? Mine is totally situational. 😢 I need to quit for upcoming surgery. Went 10 days sober while away. got home and fell into the same bad habit.
My husband is in complete denial that there is a problem, he doesn't even try to hide the drinking. He gets staggering drunk and can be verbally abusive. Quite often he can't remember what has happened the night before. I've tried to talk to him about it over the years but he just says most men like a few beers after work. I'd class a few beers as maybe 3 or 4 not 7 or more
Yeah I dealt with 13 yrs of that including him urinating when blacked out. So all our furniture was piss stained and drenched multiple times...needless to say I didn't take any furniture when I left.
He died 10 yrs later at 47 from heart attack and our son found him (he was 20). Very sad all the way around, he was a good person sober. Drank mostly beer, some whiskey which he hid so I don't know how much of that and smoked cigarettes. Also had high bp, tryglicerides and liver enzymes he never attempted to control.
I hope things turn around for yall and that yall can make it thru together. The booze is not worth it at all, for sure.
Sorry 😞
Incredibly helpful video!
I’m the only one who quits drinking (currently 70 days) and never notices any discernible differences/changes in me and my life. 🤷♂️
The cover to your video made me want to watch it. I've been drinking since age 14. I'm now almost 40 and finally deciding to quit. My eyes are frequently red in the morning. But you didn't mention anything about red eyes. Or did you make that your cover because your eye is red? Just curious
I have stopped drinking every day for several months now, however I do not feel the huge benefits everyone else seems to feel.
I feel more or less the same, but less happy.
I know someone that is an alcoholic. He is often in denial that he is one. Has said on multiple occasions that he wants to quit, but hasn't been successful. Sometimes he's cool even when drinking and other times he lets his intrusive thoughts win and he becomes someone I hardly recognize. He's not violent, just often belligerent with his words. He's lodt more than he's gained as far as friends and family is concerned.
I use to have salted popcorn on hand when I drank, I managed to be sensible for most part.. except of course drinking way too much on occasion..
I am surprised how much negativity and hopelessness I experienced the next day. That forced me to drink even more. Alcohol makes you feel very negative after a few hours.
Interesting video. I realized that indeed I eat more calories the days I drink: pizzas burgers snacks
12 days in and my fitness journey starts tomorrow. Need to lose 20 pounds. Wish me luck 🤙🏽
I love the statement, " Think the drink through. " When I think the drink through, I don't drink alcohol.
Excellent video 💯
30 min since my last drink the shakes have started 💪
I check all boxes great. I thinks its time to start smoking herbs instead.
I have taken 1 shot of strong alcohol every evening for some years. I only take as much as I feel the similar level of effect as my morning coffee. I don't know if it is harming me, and I do not have any motivation or big reason to change it.
Signs covered in the video:
1. Preoccupation with alcohol consumption
2. Increased tolerance
3. Weight gain
4. Increased blackout frequency
5. Cardiac arrhythmia (most commonly atrial fibrillation)
6. Hypertension
7. Deception of self and others regarding one's drinking behavior
I know someone who drinks and has had all these signs for years and he hasn’t died yet.
Alchohol suppressed my appetite, but that was my only source of calories for a long time.
When I quit the drink, I fasted 3 days & went carnivore, I lost 40 lbs in a month and a half.
Another serious side effect is swelling limbs!
I like your video, its nice. But I must add that alcoholics that don't eat anything are the worst kind, and die much faster, and have a really bad time of it. Please put this in further literature. Thank you.
Ha ha. Alcoholic trying to justify their addiction
Thank you Jesus Christ for removing this shackle from me.
I've never done hardcore drugs but, I tried both nicotine and alcohol at separate times for a few weeks. I quit them because I saw no real reason to do them or get addicted to them. I couldn't get past the taste of alcohol and the coughing fits of vaping/smoking.
Nr 8; not maintaining your personal hygiene
This is only for business owners and professionals? What about the other people 😳
Love your content anyways ❤
I sadly lost my mother to alcohol
As they say *first you take a drink . . .
Then the drink takes you*
I real want to quit..am addicted for 9yrs now
"Passing out" is just a dramatic term for falling asleep. Blackouts are not necessary for addiction. I'm an alcoholic addict drinking around 45 drinks per week average and rarely forget things. 1.5 ounces per 80 proof drink, US standard.
warning sign 3 is wrong in my opinion, alcohol decreased my appetite.
excellent video
Did I miss the " eye sign" in the heading?
the hard truth which realize takes time👍
I tried giving up alcohol and did it for months, or so i thought..alcohol is in so many medicines and fermented foods...hot cross buns has alcohol in, if you each a few of them then your over thr driving limit, people actually got arrested in my country. So i realised i actually never gave up alcohol for 9 months...but i drink responsibly now, 3 drinks a month, if that.
Is a person drinking to drown sorrows or otherwise....it depends on the mindset
And so many grown adults take their own kids to the bar on their 21st birthday to get them drunk. What a shame.
Idk man. That's a right of passage. If you know they are gonna drink anyways. Why not drink with them and teach them moderation.
Because some people can only drink moderately and on special occasions.