How to Overcome Alcohol Addiction - Claudia Christian
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- Patrick Bet-David has a virtual sit-down with actress Claudia Christian. In this interview they talk about how she overcame addiction and the changes that lead to in her life. Check out her book “Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction” here: amzn.to/3sDK6wB
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About the Guest: Claudia Christian is an American actress, singer, author, musician, and advocate recognized for starring roles as Commander Susan Ivanova on Babylon 5, as Captain Maynard on Fox's 9-1-1, and as the voice of Hera on the Netflix series Blood of Zeus.
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My brother took himself to rehab. After being dry for 2 years he also gave up the cigarettes. Has not drunk alcohol for over 10 years now. We are all so proud of him.
Your brother is a champion among men then so it's wonderful to see you've obviously become comfortable with singing his praises. Kudos to you as you come across as a great sibling! 🙌
But yeah, your brother has the willpower of mythic proportion 💯
@@avercher it was a hard journey. Especially for our mother.
I left a Teen Challenge rehab around 1980. I have never wanted even a cigarette since. It's just great to have a warm place to live with food and a bathroom. Addiction takes people to places they want to go, even living on the streets at times. Thank God for deliverance, amen.
How do you let him know that without putting a potential jinx in him / you know like putting a highlight on success can also seem like pointing out how much of a loser he use to be , has he accomplished more with his life than juts that now ans is able to fully enjoy moments of noticing and acknowledging him and giving that love and respect with no worry of him taking it wrong like a alcoholic and sabotage himself.
Any tips… or advice… ?
Congrats and good luck with life and new beginnings and progression with more levels of fun, health and opportunity for you and your family.
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
July 10th will be two years sober. Never in a million years would I have imagined my life could get this good in two years. I got out of rehab with 1200$ to my name. I have saved 80k in 19 months as a locksmith. God is good. AA saved my life.
Congrats. That is awesome
The program is so special- worked for me and my husband, whom I met at a meeting. The Promises are real and continue everyday after 7+yrs for me. Good for you Kory! Keep coming back- the meetings and the fellowship there will always accept you, no matter what. You got this fam.
I am 60 years old, I have been fighting alcoholism for 50 years! I have been sober for 6 months!
Wow....Incredible
The problem is we encourage drinking too much in society. Downplay the negative consequences and bully and exclude those who don’t drink.
Yeah so true also psychologically too people don’t feel easy to talk to each other honestly until alcohol comes look at what we have become so if you don’t want to drink they regard you as kind of dishonesty and less social and less open
And this is why we convert to islam. No more alcohol, you drink, we cut your head. Simple.
Yes.. It's considered a social status
it is glamorized by society. Every celebration revolved around alcohol same with mourning.
8 years sober. Mentally and emotionally the hardest thing I've ever done is put my life back together and gain trust from those I hurt around me for my actions. I will never be the same but at least now I can be productive again
Naltrexone and this women saved my life two years ago, amazing work PBD!
same here! So grateful for this treatment
Anyone else involuntarily switch from Joe Rogan to Valuetainment? I even downloaded the Spotify app but I still haven't opened it. I think I just miss the comments sections under every video
I like both
It's awesome to see all the comments about people getting sober and people staying sober. One day at a time.
A little thing that can help a lot is to start recognising the differences between urges and needs. Your brain will tell you that you need to drink, but if you can identify that thought as an urge not a need, it gives you more power to fight it.
Stopped drinking 10 months ago by listening to audio psalms 16 hrs straight, over and over. Praising God really IS the difference. ❤️
Way to go Maria ,last one 4/21/91. One day at a time, they go by fast. You have to believe in a higher power....
God is good.
Bible..rosary..faith works. .
Congratulations maria. It's been a few years since my last drink. I don't miss it one bit
Lol
5 months sober the only thing I like more than wine and scotch is success so I have to quit for good
Good on you and hold on to that feeling brother it keeps getting better! Stay focused on you. I've been sober over 2 years now and life is unbelievable
The cursed blessing of being an empath. We see and know things about people and situations before others do. Very painful. Not drinking would improve my life. 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
It takes a lot of willpower and a big outer circle to help you to get over any addiction.
If you're struggling, keep pushing forward. Ask for help if you need it. You can do it!
Bill W. @ 33 years on said: "There is a God & there is Grace."
I've been living in Grace for 38+ years. God & Grace blessed Me.
I, like millions, owe my life to AA. Thank God & AA. (Anon)
Thanks for talking about this terrible disease Pat. Very important work.
It is not a disease it is behavior. Try cancer. that's a real disease. Put a cancer patient & an alcoholic on a desert island & see which one is cured after 6 months.
@@peterkramar6555 😂😂😂.....
It's can be sorta genetic. My Gmother was bipolar and drank. I was the same way for a long time. Mental disabilities can be related to heavy drinking.
@@peterkramar6555 I'm almost 6 months sober and still suffer post acute withdrawal syndrome
She’s very educated and intelligent. Hopefully this is the answer to my prayers
I just started Naltrexone 3 weeks ago . I saw your Ted Talk and never thought it was available in TN . I not only found it available but at a clinic within 15 miles from my home. I’m just getting started but I know I will be sober at the end of this and am so grateful.
How is going?
Been sober for 4 months
62 days for me. Had the bottle in my hand but put it back last night. This episode is good timing for me.
@@TheJoshGalt God Bless You and take easy. Praying for you. 🙏🏼
Congratulations, John. God Bless You. 🙏🏼
Keep it up! May God give you the strength.
Happy for you brother ❤️
Drinking is just not fun anymore. Hangovers are terrible. I am lucky in that I just don’t enjoy it. I feel bad for anyone who struggles to stop. Hope this video helps.
And the worst part is the police and legal battles
Being handcuffed and next paying thousands of dollars trying to avoid legal punishment !
@@MrMaziar58 I cannot imagine. That has to be really bad and beyond my understanding how anyone can get multiple DUI’s. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy!
Claudia literally saved my life!
Battling this issue myself I really appreciate you having Claudia on! I've opened up the websites and am planning to watch her movie tonight. I'm hopeful and thankful. Year after year I just watch them pass by like minutes. Time is so precious and I hope this helps me on my journey. Thank you sir for what you do. Helped me in business and in my personal life. You are amazing brotha
I never knew who she was as I’m not much of a Hollywood follower. But one day I came across her Ted Talk and it changed my life. 14 months sober. Grateful for her!
62 days sober for me. Had the bottle in my hand but put it back last night. This episode is good timing for me.
I intend to go dry on May 1st myself. God help me lol
Good job
@@useresu301 I wish you the best. Do it today
Agree
Wow, congrats on the willpower to stay strong!
I enjoy the bottle a bit too much and need help. Looking forward to hearing the whole episode.
Look into vivitrol monthly injection. It’s a life saver
Aye this is perfect I'm actually 45 days sober off heavy drinking
Im a big fan of Claudia Christian , BABYLON 5 , she is one hell of an actress.
I believe the person must come to terms with whatever the pain is that has created the need ‘to escape’- forgive and move on - and accepting self and having forward vision❤️- prayer always
"The greatest men in the world have failed more than you have tried!" 💪
Gave up booze 3 years ago. Was in a bit of a bad way. Thank the lord for everyday since
Love the content, this hits close to home. Losing a family member to cirrhosis as we speak. It's a sad way to live and die, I hope those that seek help receive it.
Almost 2 years sober thanks to 12 step program and AA meetings. Some cases clinical attention needed sure, but not all. 12 steps not outdated, still working daily with thousands of addicts worldwide. The difference here is that the program works for whoever WANTS IT ,not for everyone that need it.
Finally an answer to the methods that were tried before, many many times but with no success. Missing key ingredient-the medication for the cravings! My question is why wasn’t this medicine info out there, offered as help for the alcoholic. It’s been used since the 90s?!! Is it because the people making the big bucks, 30-50 thousand a pop, with their failed programs won’t make their money?
Thank you for getting this info out. God bless you!
Pat,I love how you listen people so intensely.........caring manner and are so open about talking different subjects.i love your channel
thank you so much for this podcast. it might just save my life. i’m definitely going to pass this information along to many of my loved ones. 🙏🏿
Me too!
Claudia Christian inspired me as a youngster with her role as Susan Ivanovna, without her I'd be half the person I am. She's always seemed to be the baddest bad ass woman. If you can please thank her for me.
So true about the empaths👍😀Alcholism is such a sad thing and people need to have more compassion and respect for others.
I quit 25 of January this year because of pancreatitis. Today is 4 months
What kind of problems does pancreatitis cause? What happens if you continue drinking despite it?
@@johnkel01 pancreas makes enzymes to digest food. This last episode I was hospitalized for 3 weeks soo much pain could not eat anything. 11 days till my 6 month coin
@@godlesslife8382 - thanks for the info/response. Keep up the good work!
Easy way to control Alcohol by Allen Carr is a great book. It helped me quit without having to use will power methods.
I believe addiction is an evil spirit that takes over. I fortunately believe in God and He has cleansed me. I’m not saying that I am perfect bc I’m only a bad decision away from falling back into it but with God overcoming addiction is possible. I salute all of you who are sober because it’s one of the most bad ass things anyone can do.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this. Needed to see this so very badly. Such a completely underserved topic if 12 step doesnt resonate.
*Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday!!*
NIACIN THE REAL STORY is a book I recently purchased on audible simply wanting to learn about B vitamins. What I found reading/listening to this book is that niacin was used in the 1940s for alcoholics, in mental institutions and for anxiety and depression. If used in high doses, patients actually stopped craving alcohol and fully recovered. Patients walked out of mental institutions after weeks of niacin. This information of course has been suppressed. The guy who formed AA struggled for many years after giving up alcohol. He had severe depression, migraines, anxiety. He was willing to meet the doctor who was promoting niacin and sure enough after several weeks, the founder of AA was " cured". He no longer struggled and began implementing niacin and saw patients recover. Of course the government shut this down and that was the end of that. So sad that there is actual help yet it's being suppressed. Check out the book! Very fascinating and niacin is so inexpensive. I take 500 to 1,000 MG a day for circulation. Even though I don't drink or have that addiction I still wanted to share
What is the book? I have recently bought some Niacin and its kind of elusive. I am worried about liver damage, which I hear can happen.
@@ed8329 it's on audible. The book is titled 'Niacin the real story' . I take one or two Niacin daily if I can. Sometimes I simply don't make time to take it. But we definitely need b vitamins for our brain health
I take 500 MG once or twice a day after a meal.then i walk and enjoy the Niacin flush and walking assists in digestion as well
This video will help a ton of people.
Thanks for sharing! So many suffer in silence.
That took me, 1 day to quit alcohol and 1 day to quit smoking. I will also make a video on this
Good for you and the people you can help, but it won’t be many. But EVERY life matters, so if you can help 1, 100, 1000, your help is important as well.
@@praisejoy3 thanks
please let me know when you've made the video about quitting smoking.
@@seichorn4079 Not yet, but I am working on it, I will share everything, how did I quit? When did I quit? How others can follow the same? What all changes I feel in my body now after quitting cigarettes?
Thanks PAT. This is one of the best topics you've taken up. A much needed topic. Thanks.
Babylon 5 is top 3 in TV shows in my book.
Years ago, when my brother was going into treatment for the 8th or 9th time, he was really down on himself. I told him that I knew it was harder for him than it was for other people but, that I thought he was very brave because even though he kept falling back into the mud, every time he fought like hell to pull himself out of it. Every time he made a sincere effort to pull himself out of it.
These documentaries will shock you about rehabs. The Business if Recovery. The Sinclair Method is very inexpensive. Watch One Little Pill on Amazon Prime.
Thank you Claudia et Patrick for this information. I can relate to the part where drinking two glass was a big deal for myself and it kind a grow over the last 3-4 years and today it's two glasses almost everynight. It as become an habit, a pernicius one. Nothing bad happend but i know that Im not free anymore and that I need thoses glasses. I fell ashame of myself and sad.
Hey....I am you! Same exact habit. I stopped 13 days ago. Have no desire to return. So glad I just got up one day and said I'm done! I made chamomile tea with honey or hot chocolate my new drink. Told myself, tonight is tea night! Sleep as much as your body tells you to. When you see someone consuming alcohol, see inside them as their liver cries as it swells and sickens, and their heart beat faster and enlarges, and their brain matter physically degrades. Then plan your next morning, and how fresh you are going to feel while they are still passed out. You are free!!
We're not a drinking culture, I believe we're an alcohol culture. Travel any interstate and you'll see bill boards with adds that read, "Cold Beer! next interchange". There seems to be no avoiding it.
This is a really valuable video to talk about a topic like this and every negative addition is really distractive not necessarily physical but emotional well
Thanks for sharing
She is such a lovely genuine person
She was awesome in the Hidden. Good on you Claudia
Your limitation-it’s only your imagination.🙏
Depends on what your referencing. Alcohol and drug addiction is biological.
Naltrexone can also be administered in a 30 day shot which removes the mental "choice" of taking the pill before drinking out of the equation.
Antabuse (disulfiram) is what helped me get to the point where I could address the underlying issues that caused my alcoholism to get out of control.
I think the most important thing she said in this interview is that whatever works for YOU is the best solution. Addiction/alcoholism is a very complicated and complex problem and there is no perfect solution for everyone. Just keep trying everything out there until you figure out what works for you.
That was GREAT THANK YOU !
This was excellent. Those of us that live with someone addicted have no clue how to help them.
You can't help someone who doesn't want to help themself.
True, but they can't help themselves if they don't know about this science-based method. AA is not the only way nor the most effective way in 2021. IMO, TSM is.
Discipline is the key to everything. Even Water, even sleep, even eating, and even drinking.
Thanks to Claudia, I'm day 4 on TSM. Still taking only 25 mg, and yet it makes me wanna throw up as the medicine kicks in. Guessing it is just a starter side effect. Does anyone experience that?
Have to surrender to it. That is the only way to beat alcohol. Thank God for AA and my new sober friends there.
Doc said take 1 pill everyday even if you dont plan on drinking. Is that the way to do it?
THIS LADY SPOKE FROM THE”GOD I KNOW !! THANK U CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN & U PAT !! May GOD BLESS U AS U BOTH CONTINUE TO BLESS OTHERS !! G PA STEVE IN PA !👍💕👏👌🙏🙏
No wonder 'they' are reticent in advertising a drug which gets rid of cravings. Until this program I don't recall this drug mentioned - I've heard of drugs which make you sick when drinking but not drugs which curb the cravings of alcohol...
Naltrexone is a wonder drug for AUD!
I am watching this while drunk after taking Naltrexone an hour before I started drinking like my doc says...I think my brain is too long dependent...Not as drunk as usual...but, still drunk...will see how I feel in the morn...hoping.
These new topics are amazing. Thank you PhD PBD.
Rather dubious advice on dealing with addiction, imho.
I purchased a cheap alcohol breath monitor so I wouldn't be drunk when I drove. On my last episode I drank so much that I was 11 times over the legal drinking limit and could still walk but I would be dead in a month if I didn't stop. It took 9 days of hell for that monitor to read 0 parts alcohol in my blood. Totally freaking scary. A strange thing happened as well. If I consume any amount of alcohol now I'm very sick within 3 minutes. My last drink was 3 years ago. There is no question that genetics plays a big part.
Love to see an interview with the siblings, given the circumstance.
I like looking at astrology and I am an alcoholic. I like to look up people's astrology whenever they have an addiction especially alcoholism and violence. I like to see if these people have similar alignments to my chart. I have a moon in aquarius. I just looked at Claudia's and she has an aquarius moon and so does marylin monroe. I wonder if they both struggled with their mothers as well. Wow,,, I need to try this. Thank you. Great information.
Please interview Dr. Naomi Wolf
Love you so much Claudia🤗🙏💋
This is a very important video! 🙌🙌
Great video!!!!!
I watched ur Ted talk!! Got the meds but need
I wholeheartedly believe a person who is an alcoholic has deep rooted pain that is masked by drinking to "temporarily" to forget. It needs deliverance from our Creator to reset the body and mind, and to forgive yourself and others who caused the pain. It has to be our choice to acknowledge the pain and choose to do something about it, but without Jesus, it's calling yourself an ALCOHOLIC. Once you're delivered, you're no longer an alcoholic, but a delivered person made whole by our Creator. Same with drugs or any other addiction, food, porno, sex, etc.
That's it that's all! Blessings
Thank you
She said her movie One Little Pill is avaliable on Amazon prime video for free but when I checked they want $5 to rent it
Worth every penny. The film costs less that a margarita. And the film could save a life.
Years sober from all drugs, medications, and alcohol for 6 years with few receives, lockups, and my biggest addiction is like pretty much everyone else how? It's legal, I am on maintenance and have Buprenofrine every day, I know people that had quit heroin, But I don't know anybody that quit Buprenofrine...I am gonna be the first man to know to do it
@flow ....Same.. I am actually wondering if in this video if she is talking about bupe. She said naltrexone. Naltrexone is inside suboxone.. it’s the half that makes you sick if you ingest drugs. But the bupe part actually gives you a euphoria feeling. I’m on it myself and have been for 3 years. I find it harder to kick then opiates... if she is referring to suboxone, I don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s trading one drug for another. But I haven’t finished the video and so far she is talking about taking the naltrexone before you drink. I don’t get it. But I do wish you the best of luck & im struggling with ya
@@tashalynnx13 there is a way for us to be "normal" again, hope dies last and me with hope )) never give up
@@tashalynnx13 Suboxone or Subutex have both buprenorphine and naltrexone but naltrexone is opioid antagonist, it's a blockator for other opioids, Suboxone just a brand name with buprenorphine and naltrexone, we have Buprenofrine as brand name but it has also just Bup as active substance
Thank you Claudia & Pat. Went to TSM website. Will pass it on.
Thanks for the boost team
Love you, Claudia.
Valuetainment❤️
I don’t want to give up!
Can you imagine an entrepreneur releasing a product to sell that kills as many people as alcohol does, the marketing slogan being a lot of people don’t die tho!
I'm confused ,so this woman takes a pill now before she drinks and she's able to control her drinking now and she's now a normal social drinker OR she started off with the pill, drank then slowly realized Alcohol did nothing for her and with the pill was able to not want to drink anymore ??? Anyone else Confused ?
She is still a beautiful woman
Unfortunately I can't use the Sinclair method. I drive commercially, naltrexone is not something they will let me take & drive
Address it always
Unfortunately, in Europe, especially in France people drink a lot too. In France, at least 3 times a day.
👌as usual subject matter on point with where I’m at in life How do u do it Pat my man!?🙏
Great interview..
I don’t drink. I only do it for a special occasion like family gatherings, cook outs or holidays. I’m not a heavy drinker or an alcoholic. Drinking and driving has a higher rate than this C-19
Every addictions is not good and not healthy to us : alkohol , drugs , sex , porno , hazard etc .
If you will not fight that addiction it will destroy your life and you .
The rich people invest their money first into assets instead of purchasing liabilities. Take a wise decision today to buy and invest in cryptocurrency
Stock are good but I swapped and invested in forex and cryptocurrency I've been earning much from it 💵
Yh no doubt the crypto market has earned me alot you just gotta understand the market
Crypto is a new Gold
Yh investing in crypto is a big chance to make money nowadays
I've got interest in investing but afraid of doing it on my own to avoid loss from my end
You can't logically talk someone out of something they didn't logically talk themselves into.
The video title is misleading. This is a video about one method of overcoming alcohol addiction, not “the way” to overcome it as there is no one way. The Sinclair Method will not work for everyone. I’ve been in the depths of my AUD pit looking for answers and have seen videos titled like this only to watch them and feel mislead.
It's all about willpower
She wos cow cool in B5. I would never suspected she can have alkohol problem.
Naltrexone makes me sick. Not sure what else to try...
I actually do think it’s normal people drinking that much. Scary times