6 MONTHS SOBER (How I Did It) | Life Then vs. Life Now
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My Story
My name is Noah and on May 18 2011, I had a rare reaction to a medication called VIVITROL and consequently, spiraled into a suicidal depression with depersonalization and anxiety. I lost 25 lbs in 4 weeks and was in full panic or near panic for 8 weeks straight mixed with the darkest most painful depression I cold have ever imagined. I immediately could not work and had to move in with my parents who, along with many siblings and friends, had to watch me 24/7 as I was a danger to myself. Eventually I was hospitalized in the Psych Ward for a week. Getting through each day seemed truly unbearable and I knew I would surely die. I have been put on many many different doctor prescribed SSRI's SNRI's Tricyclics, mood stabilizers, anti-psychotics, holistic meds, acupuncture and even a form of shock therapy called RTMS. I barely saw any improvement in my condition for a full year. It was decided I had treatment resistant depression and I spent nearly every moment in tears. Weeks after starting my newest round of medications (Seroquel & Nortryptaline) as a last ditch effort, I had my blood drawn for possible hormone imbalances and my Testosterone levels came back 200 ng/Dl and 150 ng/Dl. The average 25 year old male has 750 ng/Dl. With this discovery I had an explanation as to why I was not getting better and why I might be so so sick. The symptoms of Low T are very similar to those of major depression. I started legally prescribed testosterone replacement therapy soon after and have been checking in with the world and documenting my experience with treatment as well as giving my insight and perspective on various topics of mental health. I am blessed to say that I have slowly, over the last 6 years, been improving and becoming more stable which I never thought to be possible. My low T manifested itself in the form of Major depression, anxiety, and depersonalization/ derealization for over a year. Treating my low testosterone has been 1 HUGE part of the puzzle but I have had to continue to work hard to hold on to my mental stability with many set backs. Gaining some mental stability back is nothing short of a miracle as I was near death for what felt like forever. I do not consider myself to be totally healed yet but I am closer now then ever before and aim to use what I have been through to help or at least offer support to others in need I was able to successfully come off my Seroquel and Pamelor.
I work out all the time as a part of my mental health recovery!!! Weight training and all kinds of cardio rule much of my free time and I also share this on my channel.
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Grateful and focused today. I am 6 months down the road of recovery but the ditch is still one foot to my right and all it takes is 1 drink for my world to unravel. May I never lose sight of that. Happy Saturday and thank you for being apart of my life.
Hello and how are you today? I'm also 6 month sober and have learned so much about myself since stopping but I learned about the benefits of psychedelics and I ha an Lsd trip which opened me up an relief Ed me of a lot of worries that I used to have and has made me question my own beliefs. Thank you for helping me achieve what I cannot on my own 😀
April 13th was my date celebrated 6 months as well yesterday.
bignoknow, Congrats On Six Months!!! Awesome!♥️
James Dykes, Congratulations to you, too!!!😊♥️✌️
Your videos are one of three I watch for sobriety. Have you ever checked out Annie Grace's The Naked Mind, or TalkSober?
Way to go... I'm 12yrs sober and I still remember that feeling... Keep going it gets even better... And watch out for that 7mth itch...I know its great to be on cloud nine but don't let your guard down.,...
DEMO4 JOE that’s BRILLIANT!! Good for you!
I've struggled with Major depressive disorder, Dysthymia, and ADHD for over 15 years. I couldn't even imagine how much worse things could be with an alcohol addiction.
Food is my limiting factor at the moment. It's so difficult to change things. My brain forces me to seek out that dopamine high.
I used to sleep for days, putting strain on my career. Now, I am very reliable and productive because I told myself I have no choice. My work life has completely turned around.
I just need to learn to do the same with my eating and exercise habits. I feel like food is holding all of the good things in my life together. It's not true, but I need to work to convince myself I can find a positive release.
Thank you for the video. You're an inspiration to be completely open and honest, which is especially important for those who are dealing with mood disorders or addiction. I hope you and your wife continue to do well. You sincerely deserve it - you've helped so many people by showing us your journey. Most people hide their negative experiences and let them grow, so you're a great example.
YEE. Congrats my man. Your channel has been a big part of my own recovery, and I'm not just saying that to kiss butt and boost your ego. I generally mean that. I seriously hope you never stop making videos :)
YEE! Almost relapsed today and your videos really helped me avoid it. Luckily tomorrow will be my 48th day sober this time around instead of my 1st. Ironically it was in response to what I think was a genuine spiritual experience: I had a very painful "honesty attack." I have been sober for over 11 years twice and it gets much better I assure you. For me AA is the only deal that works. Still trying at 60 years old! But I don't think I could live through another home detox alone from a 1.75 of Vodka every two days. That was as close to hell as I care to get.
OriginalLHB “honesty attack” I love that. I appreciate very much your vulnerability. One day at a time. I can’t imagine the pain of that detox. 11 years twice is a big deal. What do you think “went wrong
Congrats man. Sobriety is so much better than the alternative.
Proud of you , my dude, I knew you had it in you! :) Thank you again for another video that I hope may reach those who struggle with such addictions. Yes, you deserve this happiness today. I agree, wholeheartedly. And your reward for this continuous struggle , is the woman who loves you, and married you. She stuck by you through some pretty rough spots. That is the dedication and love of someone who is genuine...you're both so lucky to have one another ! Congrats.
I’m 97 days sober and feeling great!
I use some of the morning routines that you do and I find it really helps get my day started. Thank you so much for all your inspiration you make the bad days I have subside just sitting back watching your videos. You are a wonderful person and I’m glad you are doing well, You deserve it dude! YEE!😊
Sober happy, is lovely on you. I’ve seen you sober not happy, too and yes you were struggling. This time you even look and act more even, peaceful and settled. And, understand it’s a daily support system that transforms.
YEE 😁 I decided to quit alcohol after watching one of your videos in the first part of July. My depression, anxiety and DPDR were most certainly going to be the death of me .When I gave up the alcohol and weed everything just kept getting better. I am able to sleep and go to the store without having a melt down! I have lost weight and have regained the mental clarity, physical strength and peace in my heart I thought was gone for good. You are so amazing and you have had an extremely powerful impact in my life! Hope to catch you tomorrow for live chat. You deserve every bit of joy and bliss! Thank you so much!
tsuchin100 This is BRILLIANT! Good for you! I’m SO pleased to hear this!!
YEE! Good for you Noah! I’m SO CHUFFED for you!
I look to you to help me better understand my husband. Congrats on 6 months and I hope I can update you on his 6 month sobriety in the future! YEE!
Thank you for sharing I needed this reminder for myself... Keep up the good work
Yee!! Noah, I'm so happy to see you happy! You are such a blessing to us. This video had me smiling hard!
First time commenter, long time listener. Thanks bro. You got me through my TRT stuff 2 years ago, which was huge. Now much healthier and down 90 lbs. I am a new man. Now at a transition point in my life and what you just discussed is a total dream. Always contemplated. Help? Who does that? That is for the weak. But is it really? For sure it isn't. Sometimes people just need to hear it's ok to ask for help. Pride sucks and holds you back. Thank you for the openness and honesty. Happy for your happiness bro. Thanks.
It's so wonderful to see you happy .
YEE. proud of you pal, self awareness takes a time to develop but when it does it feels great. Much love to yourself, your family and everyone here
So proud of you still Noah!! You continue to amaze & inspire us. Keep up the great work. Much love 💕
Congratulations on your Six Months!!! Awesome!♥️
look at that fantastic smile. Your happiness shows on your face. Keep going Big No Know. x
I am so proud of you! 💙
I'm so happy for you. Congratulations on your achievement. Yee!
I released this week and have beaten myself up for it. But watching this video gives me hope and inspiring. I'm looking for 12 step program to attend, getting my ass to the gym and taking control of my life again. Thank you Noah buddy! 💪
Sir.
You are such an inspiration
YEE. Congratulations. You deserve it.
well done man keep coming back !
yee congrats, you are awesome!
Congratulations!
Congratulations! I agree a program is needed, in the past, I would just swap one addiction for another.....unhelpful! In a recovery program, I've learned to fill that hole in the soul with healthy things. Thank you for a great video, keep on keeping on my friend!
Keep up the great work and inspiring others
congratulations!!!!
Yee. Thankyou brother no idea what 6 months feels like but I’m never going to give up trying to get there
I love this energy! You earned it!
Welldone bro keep up the good work ❤👍
YEE 😂💪🏼
Well done Noah! I’m so happy to see you happy! 💗you are amazing! Thank you so much to share this
ANY day is a good day to get sober, not JUST new years!!! Birthdays, favorite months, something important coming up in your heath care.... DO NOT WAIT, a date is a date :) JUST DO IT like Noah says :)
Great, glad you are in a better place. My only advise is watch that the Manic doesn't push you in a different direction just go with being proud.
YEE! And yes, you are worth it.
Congrats!!
Keep going man
very well articulated, thank you!
Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke. Good for you, mate!
"Bignoknow" (defined): one who has proven to himself that he has worked on himself and knows himself. Hey man, stoked for you. I know your struggles. But I am really inspired by you because you are someone who has worked on themselves and has really wanted to understand what is going on inside of you. Maybe I am wrong but I feel that. Thank you for taking that step for others and yourself.
Travis Fragale nicest comment ever man. Thank you and have an amazing Sunday
Well done you have done so well 💕 Yee
It always amaze me the alcohol ability to destroy peoples lives. Every time I stop drinking, things change so much to better and every time I start drinking, it is a nightmare. Finally, at 32, I have decided I am done with this poison once and for all, I wish I did that 10 years ago... I don't live the life I want simply because I was drinking, I hope I can have the power to rebuild my life again...
You can.
Congratulations 🎈
Good for you buddy!! I just got 6 months today too.
Good job. All good things can and do fall away when we drink and use...When we don't, the life, mind AND body heal. I love that squeaky clean liver. When one gets older, one gets greedy for life and wants to do anything and all to sustain healthy organs. Hence abstinence from drugs, alcohol and anything that will strain the liver. Food included. 17 years 9 months sober from drugs an alcohol, 22 years free of nicotine and 11 years vegan. Yahoo!!! This thing really works!! It's also nice to make sober choices on actions. No more deep and seedy 4th steps. Better to work on 10th's daily. :) Right on, Noah. Congratulations and keep doing the deed.
Jo Mont57 loved this share. Congrats on your awesome journey.
Jo Mont57 WOW! that’s BRILLIANT!! Good for you!
im 6 months sober today and feel just like your intro!
yee you should watch this today and remember how good you felt then //you was high on life and that is the best high
I'm 43 days sober! Congrats on 6 months!!
Quick question. What did you mean by saying it's a symptom? I'm a recovering alcoholic and I'm still trying to full that void. YEEEEEE! lol
Symptom meaning alcohol not being the problem, but being an unhealthy solution to the bigger problems in our lives (Depression, Anxiety, ect)
Gotcha. Thank you. My bigger problem is depression and anxiety. Thanks for clearing it up for me!
@@DepressionTalks1 No problem
Depression Talks With Immanuel, I suffer from depression and anxiety, too. One thing that I am realizing is, Alcohol only makes mine, Worse.
Take good care of you, and I hope you get better soon.♥️
go online and look up AA meetings I tried doing this alone I was so AGAINST AA and all that, everything that I thought was "corny" saves me day by day I don't ever wanna be afraid to go outside again or not be able to hold a coffee cup because im shaking so bad. Godbless. You’ll also meet people who’ve been there you can have conversations without even talking “figure of speech” if you have hobbies someone there is doing it too SOBER. So many doors open.
Great channel! I love your videos, because you're genuine. Have you ever thought about eating Zero Carb Carnivore to help with your depression? Would love to hear your thoughts on Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson. Keep up the good work.
This is so damn inspiring! I want to feel as happy as you seem. You make sobriety look good! Today I won't drink with you!
YEE, Well done.
Yee! Congrats! And much love to your wife who has been offering you so much support!
I'm wondering if the 12-step program will prevent you from having the thoughts you mentioned a few times in your old videos as the reason for your previous relapse: something along the lines of "If I am miserable anyway, I can as well be miserable and drunk". While I hope these thoughts do not come back to you, do you think they might - and if so, do you have any strategies on coping with them? Longtime sobriety has its challenges and I'd love to hear more tips and stories about that.
ZoraHurston You definitely giving me something to think about. I will reflect and make a video about this.
Thank you! Looking forward to it.
Id really really really like to know what things specifically you've learned behavior wise or self-improvement wise that have helped you start learning to love who you are. I don't want to waste my time in life regretting and desiring to run from my emotions using substances or relationships. I'm still in the mindset that you have to have substances in order to be happy and likable. I mean, I'm afraid to connect with people. I dont like who I am and I don't think others will either, and I don't want to miss out on living a life that's worth living while I stay stuck in this mental place.
Let's hope you don't undertake all this hard work to get to a good space to then try and reintroduce drinking again like last time...Well done on the 6 months!
One day at a time 🙌
I'm back!! Life just pushed me over the edge again... after 2 years sober I just bought a fifth of tequila to help me through some of Life's challenges... I hate doing it but it is what it is
hope things are better now man
I'am reading this with a glass of whiskey in my hand as its helps cope with the depression .. I don't need to drink but when I do I acant stop , cant just have 1-2 beers I have to have 7-8 until I pass out .. wish i can overcome this
Adam Leng just be gentle with yourself bro. There is nothing bad or wrong about you.
@@bignoknow one thing which gives me a boost. Is the fact you replied .. thanks Noah .. I'm gonna try.. and keep putting good vids out there my man
Hey Noah at 6 months how is was your depression and mood swings?
Still on that pink cloud? Keep it up man!
7:30 that how i feel like right now, i feel like there something i'm missing without taking a bunch of drugs/alcohol and gettign all fucked up. Don't know if it's a bad thing that i feel like i need to chase that feeling or not it's just so strong.
I've been responsible my whole life, i feel like i need to experience the other side
YEE.
"My behavior didn't match my mood and my mind" well put. I can't say how many times when I was drunk I would give these "enlightened lectures" to people at bars about how I'm so "woke" and I've found the answer only to wake up and be ashamed of what I'd done and feeling like a fraud because my actions were the polar opposite of my ideals.
AAA doesn’t work for me tried it several times and every time I go either someone’s high or someone’s drunk court order to be there and they put bad bad vibes for everybody triggers everybody AAA just doesn’t work anymore Where I am from I’ve been buying books and listening to them and it’s been helping a lot
YEE!!! 😊♥️✌️
Late to the congratulations. Yea!!
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congrats on 6 months. i am day 42 today Feb 6, 2019.
Yee!
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Yee! 😘
How I did it: I didn't drink.
Jason Beard hahaha. That’s how to stay “sober” that’s not a good formula for thriving without alcohol for me though.
I'm doing this I'm going sober ty
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Yee homie
YEE :D
No more relapses! ;)
yee x
👍👍💪💪💪❤
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Noah Noalcohol Nomo Congrats
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I want to feel connected.
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I last drank on 15th August. Indian Independence Day it was. Anyway - I am going till November 15.
May i ask why only till November 15th?
Brandon Tempest see I’ve never been more than a month without drinking. It was getting too much. I finished a bottle of glenmorangie on 15th August. Then I said let’s quit for 90 days and see how life changes. I am surprised by how boring life has become. It feels like my best friend doesn’t exist. There are so many advantages and such few disadvantages yet I can’t wait for November 15. Sorry you all. But this 90 day is a major event in my life.
Don't you have a video of 1 year sober
Yeah, but he relapsed and drank for two years, but it got out of hand and he decided to get sober again. Probs to him for that
I sure do. Relapse is a part of my story.
Recovery is never linear :)
Im off it 8 months. If you quit it's obviously for a reason. All you need to remember all it takes is one drink and everything you worked for goes out the window. It is sad but reality
cool intro, bro.....
Seriously
Yeee
Alcohol is disgusting makes u feel like shit anyway idget how anybody could even get addicted to that stuff but good for u! Keep it up!
so what happened bro? what caused you from leaving this happiness for the booze?
For 5 months I did Nofap
Relapsed
I hate videos like this. As a recovering alcoholic with years of sobriety I urge you to get out of AA. Lance Dodes, a retired Harvard professor, wrote a great book called The Sober Truth. It completely debunks the program. There's no science to it. I watched hundreds of people die in the 9 years I was in the program. I was also never sober for more than a year in those horrid rooms. I now work in the field of recovery where we teach emotional sobriety, not codependency. Folk therapy isn't even designed to be a long term process. The program promotes egocentricity, the whole I'd rather die than drink motto, and is quick to tell you that psychologists and doctors do not know what they are talking about. The most disturbing thing that I saw in 9 years and 4 States total in attending Alcoholics Anonymous was people were constantly told to get off of medication for mental health. Unfortunately that mixed with "I'd rather die than drink" motto KILLS PEOPLE. There is a reason the program is being ripped from rehabs left and right. In my opinion, based on AA standards, everybody in those rooms is a dry drunk. I hope you can find some true sobriety. The meaningless rhetoric will get you nowhere. In the biography of Alcoholics Anonymous(as listed on their official website) not the big book, it states that Bill Wilson believed LSD cured alcoholism. He also told people he was a reincarnation of Jesus Christ and that he spoke with Saint Paul through a ouija board. The editor had to revise his portion of the Big Book 12 times because it made no sense. The scariest part of Alcoholics Anonymous it is a program of self indoctrination. I understand that if you have been in the program for a long time you will take this as me being rude or misinformed LOL. If nothing else I hope you read the book that I mentioned earlier. I think it is irresponsible to promote this program to people who have no idea about the true dangers of it. Good luck.
life isn't all science and "facts" some people need the support, its worked for millions, maybe not you! But eyyeeee keep that negativity to yourself
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You always over emphasise your various problems.
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