I started drinking alcohol years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Germany don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Yes Mr.medmushies. Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
Yes he's Mr.medmushies Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
3 years sober now. I had the shakes in the morning, making a drink first thing. I'd get sick if I went too long without. Hated myself. Tried to quit on my own and had a seizure. Luckily my mom was there and called 911. Ended up relapsing twice after that. 3 hospital stays. Now I'm sober and feeling much better, life is looking up again. Its not easy, but it is possible. Finding a hobby to bring my mind out of "drinking mode" greatly helped, as did meetings and speaking with other people who fight the same urges
@@robertbendik1364that's replacing one addiction for a worse one. Benzo withdrawal has cause many a suicide bruv. Exercise is your best bet. Or sport 😢
the part of the withdrawal equation you left out was how alcohol also inhibits glutamate, which leads to an increase in the amount of excitatory glutamate receptors. i think the firing of these excitatory neurotransmitters are also what causes the rapid heart beat, high blood pressure, panic attacks, etc.
I read that Taurine supplements can help lower those glutamate firings so you experience less of the bad side effects. I currently ordered some after doing some research. I stopped alcohol couple weeks back but still have rapid heartbeat sometimes. Resting heart rate sometimes at 110 so I'm hoping this Taurine will help with that! Thanks for sharing it's important more people know those who are detoxing.
For me, the worst thing about quitting alcohol was a feeling of dread, although I’m not sure that’s the right word for it. Imagine you’re driving past a little town. You wonder what it would be like to live there. You are certain that life would be an endless, black, featureless horror. A thick, stifling nothingness. The world you can see is only a facade. Beneath it, behind it is the void. It was like that for months, gradually subsiding. It was better alone. With people I had to pretend it wasn’t happening. You can’t just interrupt a meeting at work to go Kurtz on everyone and say, “The horror. The horror.” Or maybe you can, I guess I didn’t try. 0/10, would not recommend
@sci_ent_ificsui_neg9236 Interesting. It felt quite different than the other flavors of anxiety I'm more familiar with. I don't think I had any overt hallucinations, but then I don't on psychedelics, either. I'd already proven to myself that I wasn't capable of gradual alcohol reduction. I did use phenibut (and, later, theanine) as one would use benzodiazepines in this context. Kept things at a level I could tolerate, but still very unpleasant.
Small town means nature is around so settle there and take folic acid and thiamine and you'll be fine. Detox in urban areas means being around brown and black which is severe anxiety provoking so avoid.
It might sound boring too, but running daily, being in great shape this time, seems to have eliminated this dreariness you mentioned, almost completely, I'm amazed frankly
@@adabsurdum3314 Yeah, exercise helps. Unfortunately, my body reacts to exercise by becoming less tolerant of exercise. Everyone tells me the feedback loop is supposed to work the other way around.
Another awesome video, Dr Syl! Plus extra kudos for doing it while hungover 😅 I’d like to say as well that no one’s immune to alcohol dependency. I’m a qualified Alcohol & Other Drug Counselor and I still spiraled into dependency, even with knowing what I know. It started with planning my days around getting everything done ASAP so I could go home and start drinking, and soon I was drinking a *lot* daily. I won’t go into full details, but let’s just say that eventually I started my days with ciders and also had my lunch breaks in my car (three guesses why 🙈😅), and I still drank at home every night too. My psychologist asked me to pick one day of the week to not drink on to see how I’d go - when I struggled with just one day of not drinking I had that moment of clarity (finally lol), so I went cold turkey and I haven’t drank since. That was about 4 years ago. The thing that I found difficult was not being believed or taken seriously. Close friends would insist there was no way I had a problem, and I’d have to point out that I’d been making sure no one realized how much I was drinking because I didn’t want anyone to try and stop me. I had to literally argue with friends that I had a problem even when they knew I was a D&A Counselor. I mention this because anyone can have struggles like these going on privately/secretly, even if they “don’t seem like that type of person”. If someone confides in you, please believe them 🙏🏻💞
Congratulations, and good for you telling the truth. So many people have the incorrect impression that an alcoholic is someone predisposed to abuse alcohol. The fact is that alcohol is a highly addictive poison. Like cocaine or opium/heroin. Developing alcohol use disorder is just a matter of the amount and frequency of use. Addicts do not want to hear about anything that leads to suggesting they not use, and thus this information is very unpopular when I speak about it.
@@RinoSchiavoCampo Thank you for your kind words 🙏🏻💖 And you’re definitely correct about alcohol being addictive. Anything that can dampen emotional pain has the chance of being abused, because people are usually trying to cope with unbearable and overwhelming feelings but not knowing how to do that, and things like alcohol do that very effectively (unfortunately). I think it was Dr Gabor Maté that said we should ask not why the addiction but rather, why the pain? Because substance abuse usually stems from unbearable emotional pain… I’m happy to say that I’m still sober, and I calculated the actual date and it’s 4 years next month 😇 I joined a sobriety group on TH-cam too, just to put in some additional support networking (you can never have too much). If anyone else is on a sobriety journey or wanting to get sober, I highly recommend The Life Boat on TH-cam. They go live twice a day to operate kind of like AA/NA meetings or check ins. They have a Facebook group and Discord server too, and everyone there is so so kind and supportive! 🙏🏻✨💖
@@rjthomasindyusa no, we need more people to take mental illness seriously. Blowing off illness with "oh you just need diet, exercise, ect" is patronizing. You probably wouldn't say that to someone who needed cancer treatment.
If one drinks once in a blue moon, around 10-20 beers, it is possible for the hangovers to develop into withdrawals? Is the only solution to cutout drinking entirely?
Just drink if you are enjoying it. I have a problem also. I drink heavily on weekends. But I’m a professional driver Monday to Friday so I don’t drink whatever on those days. If drinking is affecting your life or job I would be worried. If not, cheers🍻🥂
Unlikely. I didn't get withdrawals until 9+ years of professional binge drinking, 1.75L of cheap vodka every day for weeks on end. 10-20 beers "once in a blue moon" won't do it. 10-20 beers a day for days on end will do it to ya though.
@@timring3684yeah that happened to me, I was a month sober then relapsed, 20 beers a day for 2weeks then stopped again, full withdrawal, 15 days sober now
Please keep up your videos. I have a 45 y.o. Son and it’s helpful to hear an almost psychiatrist teach Not enough psychiatrists in the world to help our loved ones Thanks
It's *so* important that people don't go around saying "You have to stop drinking - Just stop!", because - as you said - it doesn't work that way. Quitting Cold Turkey is really dangerous. I should know, I've had DT two times. Hopefully the last times in my life, but even the second time around, I got told by some people to "Just quit drinking". Eeeh... no. Great information for those people!
I'm slowly weening myself off until finally I'll be at zero. I'm confused if I'm experiencing DT or not. I wake up early every morning regardless of how late I go to sleep, then I toss and turn and I keep stretching my legs straight and then my body shakes and I'm almost shivering for a while. Then I have a drink and I feel good. Slowly drinking less and less every week but just wondering if these are DTs or just a morning stretch.
I went to hospital two days ago with alcohol withdrawals. They sent me home. I'm waiting to do a home detox. I've been drinking heavily for 10 days. The doctor who saw me said I wasn't in withdrawal. I'm terrified of keeping drinking at home alone until I have to detox.
Just found your channel, maybe I'm just stopping by your most recent video to say I hope you keep making video's since I'm really enjoying watching them. I might have another reason for watching this video specifically who knows.
The last time was the last time for me. I had terrible withdrawal after going on a weeklong bender of about 30 oz of liquor per day. I was in absolute agony. Went to my GP, who prescribed Librium (chlordiazapoxide). It took me from hell to wonderful relaxation. I think the dose was 25 or 50 mg. Thank God for that stuff.
Thank you for this video Dr Syl. I believe you hit the nail on the head when you said it's essentially a " no brainer". Exactly! If you've drank excessively most your life being a casual drinker is not an sensible option . The upside is ones life can be enriched by a sense of clarity and purpose. This is my truth.
Great vid. Nice and clear. I need to taper, in a country that throws us into communist-style prison hospitals if we admit ourselves. Just. Need. To . Taper. Swimming and exercise are the best way to move forward. Plus the mild benzos and anti-seizure meds (Carbamazepine).
Wow, thank you for sharing! I really like the way you phrase things here. A key point that i know will really positively impact my life is, "youre stuck with your body and you've got to get along with yourself" A big reason i personally drink is bc of the self hate. I'm 32 and i know i have to face this. Telling myself "i'm stuck with this body" kind of feels like i'm disconnecting one from the other, if that makes sense. For example, just bc i hate myself doesn't mean i get to treat my body like this. Which then can allow me to focus on what i can do to help this "body im stuck with" instead of feeling like I have to make it through each day with this body. IDK perspective is key!
5 years sober now and i feel great with no more DTs and hangovers with seizures. That is a horrible way to live and I lived it for years. Thank you Lord for delivering me from that bondage
Hi, I am in treatment now for alcohol dependency, but I also suffer from depression and anxiety, I am not like most other people who suffer from this, I am in full time work. My main concern is that I have to deal with multiple agencies, and yet still keep a full time job. It is getting hard for me to deal with everything, and yet, keep my head above board
I got prescribed paxil and Xanax to deal with the alcohol withdrawal. If I don't drink I don't need them. Problem is after about a week of no alcohol I feel better but still have the shakes but feel like I can drink a couple of days straight and go back to normal after a week off. It sucks.
I’ve been drinking heavy for 40 years now. Only on weekends though. I don’t drink whatsoever Sunday to Thursday . Is this a problem? Or just enjoying partying every weekend?
As long as ur not constantly craving alcohol I wouldn’t say that’s a massive problem but binge drinking to any extent is bad for your physical health hope thus helped :)
my BF is a doctor. he uses social reasons as excuses to drink, often several dozens of glasses of wine per week now. We've been seeing the criteria of hyper alcoholism together at some of his home training; yet a few days after, he went above 5 glasses per 2 hours during the whole night...and the second night of doing that, he insisted on taking his car after 3 hours of sleep (his smell of alcohol was still so strong it gave me nausea, and i know he had smoked pot too). the more he drinks, the more he's convinced i want to "manipulate" him :'( and says that the problem is not his drinking, but my reaction to it ( though most of the time i have none, knowing how sensitive he is....) . The more he drinks, the more he doesn't respect me (not showing up at meetings with our shrink, saying my fatigue is an excuse though i recently had cancer treatment and still anemia+ long covid, getting mad for nothing more and more often ...) he was seeing an addictologist until this year (he was almost sober in jan/feb after 3 months of selincro) but he stopped seeing hem , although he keeps on drinking more and more on average. I think he considers he's still in control, although not following any of WHO's guidelines for alcohol intake. ... is there anything i could do? do you have any advice for the BF/GF of a person suffering from alcoholism?
I would say that you need to try to figure out why exactly he’s doing it, there tends to b reasoning behind excessive drinking like stress and stuff, u said he’s a doctor and u said bf rather than husband so I assume ur young ( correct me if I’m wrong tho* ) if he’s new to the job he might be stressed cos being a doctor is obv extremely mentally exerting, anyways once u figure out what might b causing it u can do further research to figure out how to lift some weight off his shoulders. Btw don’t take my advice too seriously cos I’m literally a child like I’m not gonna say how old I am cos like ✨StRaNgEr DaNgEr✨ but I’m a child, the only reason I’m offering my advice is cos I personally struggle with alcoholism and I have a drink every morning, (although it’s better than it was like I used to be drinking continuously thruout the day) and in my personal experience it’s because my parents got divorced and my brother has a drug problem wich is stressy asf anyways feel free not to read this because I have no idea what I’m talking about 👍👀👍 Hope ur bf ends out ok :))
I hope he either stopped or you left him. It sounds very abusive tbh and by trying to save him you are bing co dependent and facilitating his behaviour x update is if you can. The insanity of a doctor refuting exhaustion in partner to deflect is seriously concerning
My story: I was a binge drinker for 50 years. How did I stop drinking so easily? I skipped the counseling and anonymous platitudes. I went to my doctor. He gave me a choice of two remedies. The monthly injection of Vivitrol or the daily 50mg tablet of naltrexone. I took the tablets for 30 days to detox and almost immediately lost the cravings for beer. Losing the cravings was as easy as taking Motrin for muscle aches. Mark me safe from alcohol
@@vitorbarradas7430 Beer on the brain. Everyday there was a plan to drink beer after noon or early evening. The craving was annoying even though I wanted to not drink. Googled my problem and got a video from TH-cam about naltrexone and the Sinclair method. Went to my doctor with my problem and got the prescription. 6 weeks later the craving faded away.
Doctor won't give me ativan. Hospital would not help. So I bought 2mg Xanax bars one time from a paramedic friend. It worked but I would rather have lorazapam from a doctor.
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I started drinking alcohol years ago as a teenage, spent my whole life fighting alcohol addiction. I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Got diagnosed with cptsd. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. Much respect to mother nature the great magic shrooms.
Thanks for sharing your story. That's rough I sympathize. Save your health save your mind. Life is better without heroin, cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes. And you have more money in your pocket. God bless everyone who has rejected the devils intentions to be addicted to alcohol and cigarettes etc which can cause so much damage to health. I will pray for you all.
Hey mates! Can you help with the source? I suffer severe anxiety, panic and depression and I usually take prescription medicine, but they don't always help. Where can I find those psilocybin mushrooms? I'm really interested in treating my mental health without Rxs. I live in Germany don't know much about these. I'm so glad they helped you. I can't wait to get them too. Really need a reliable source 🙏
Yes Mr.medmushies. Mushrooms are very medicinal. This is why anybody familiar with psilocybin and any other kind of fungi will tell you, "They are alive." They have a very ancient wisdom. To my experience, all mushrooms have always said, "Pay attention to your life. How you think, how you feel, and what will you do with the information that you always knew, but now are seeing in this point of view." This is why mushrooms are so respected in tribal cultures. This mental health treatment works for me too. Half micro doses do the trick for me. At least a few days at a time with lengthy time in between. Never addictive. Thank you for sharing this point!
How do I reach out to him? Is he on insta
Yes he's Mr.medmushies Shrooms to me is a natrual healer. I know a guy who has used mushrooms in the same way and they have really helped him. mah dudes have safe trips all.
I'm on day 18 alcohol free.
3 years sober now. I had the shakes in the morning, making a drink first thing. I'd get sick if I went too long without. Hated myself. Tried to quit on my own and had a seizure. Luckily my mom was there and called 911. Ended up relapsing twice after that. 3 hospital stays. Now I'm sober and feeling much better, life is looking up again. Its not easy, but it is possible. Finding a hobby to bring my mind out of "drinking mode" greatly helped, as did meetings and speaking with other people who fight the same urges
Are you on benzodiazepines?
@@robertbendik1364that's replacing one addiction for a worse one. Benzo withdrawal has cause many a suicide bruv. Exercise is your best bet. Or sport 😢
But you were user to drink a lot too?
I used the Sinclair method to lose the cravings. I'm back to normal.
awww.... mommy...
Interesting to receive info on Alcohol withdrawal from a doctor with a hangover. So Aussie!!!
the part of the withdrawal equation you left out was how alcohol also inhibits glutamate, which leads to an increase in the amount of excitatory glutamate receptors. i think the firing of these excitatory neurotransmitters are also what causes the rapid heart beat, high blood pressure, panic attacks, etc.
I read that Taurine supplements can help lower those glutamate firings so you experience less of the bad side effects. I currently ordered some after doing some research. I stopped alcohol couple weeks back but still have rapid heartbeat sometimes. Resting heart rate sometimes at 110 so I'm hoping this Taurine will help with that! Thanks for sharing it's important more people know those who are detoxing.
@@hailnoheroHas the taurine help you?
For me, the worst thing about quitting alcohol was a feeling of dread, although I’m not sure that’s the right word for it. Imagine you’re driving past a little town. You wonder what it would be like to live there. You are certain that life would be an endless, black, featureless horror. A thick, stifling nothingness. The world you can see is only a facade. Beneath it, behind it is the void.
It was like that for months, gradually subsiding. It was better alone. With people I had to pretend it wasn’t happening. You can’t just interrupt a meeting at work to go Kurtz on everyone and say, “The horror. The horror.” Or maybe you can, I guess I didn’t try.
0/10, would not recommend
@sci_ent_ificsui_neg9236 Interesting. It felt quite different than the other flavors of anxiety I'm more familiar with. I don't think I had any overt hallucinations, but then I don't on psychedelics, either.
I'd already proven to myself that I wasn't capable of gradual alcohol reduction. I did use phenibut (and, later, theanine) as one would use benzodiazepines in this context. Kept things at a level I could tolerate, but still very unpleasant.
I was worried about substituting one addiction for another, so tried to be as sparing with my replacement GABA agonists as I could...
Small town means nature is around so settle there and take folic acid and thiamine and you'll be fine. Detox in urban areas means being around brown and black which is severe anxiety provoking so avoid.
It might sound boring too, but running daily, being in great shape this time, seems to have eliminated this dreariness you mentioned, almost completely, I'm amazed frankly
@@adabsurdum3314 Yeah, exercise helps. Unfortunately, my body reacts to exercise by becoming less tolerant of exercise. Everyone tells me the feedback loop is supposed to work the other way around.
Thank you man, I’m 25 and realize I have a problem. This helps get the process started.
Tone deaf. Laughing about being hungover while ppl are looking at this video to be sober? This guy is as mature as my teenagers.
The benzo withdrawal will crush you more than the withdrawal from alcohol
Speedy recovery from your hangover Dr Syl 😊
"You gotta get along with yourself. That requires a lot of work" and OMG if I didn't feel so seen! LOL
Another awesome video, Dr Syl! Plus extra kudos for doing it while hungover 😅
I’d like to say as well that no one’s immune to alcohol dependency. I’m a qualified Alcohol & Other Drug Counselor and I still spiraled into dependency, even with knowing what I know.
It started with planning my days around getting everything done ASAP so I could go home and start drinking, and soon I was drinking a *lot* daily. I won’t go into full details, but let’s just say that eventually I started my days with ciders and also had my lunch breaks in my car (three guesses why 🙈😅), and I still drank at home every night too.
My psychologist asked me to pick one day of the week to not drink on to see how I’d go - when I struggled with just one day of not drinking I had that moment of clarity (finally lol), so I went cold turkey and I haven’t drank since. That was about 4 years ago.
The thing that I found difficult was not being believed or taken seriously. Close friends would insist there was no way I had a problem, and I’d have to point out that I’d been making sure no one realized how much I was drinking because I didn’t want anyone to try and stop me. I had to literally argue with friends that I had a problem even when they knew I was a D&A Counselor. I mention this because anyone can have struggles like these going on privately/secretly, even if they “don’t seem like that type of person”. If someone confides in you, please believe them 🙏🏻💞
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Much respect to you and congrats on 4 years🎉
Congratulations, and good for you telling the truth. So many people have the incorrect impression that an alcoholic is someone predisposed to abuse alcohol. The fact is that alcohol is a highly addictive poison. Like cocaine or opium/heroin. Developing alcohol use disorder is just a matter of the amount and frequency of use. Addicts do not want to hear about anything that leads to suggesting they not use, and thus this information is very unpopular when I speak about it.
@@AG-su4ij thank you so much 🙏🏻💖
@@RinoSchiavoCampo Thank you for your kind words 🙏🏻💖 And you’re definitely correct about alcohol being addictive. Anything that can dampen emotional pain has the chance of being abused, because people are usually trying to cope with unbearable and overwhelming feelings but not knowing how to do that, and things like alcohol do that very effectively (unfortunately). I think it was Dr Gabor Maté that said we should ask not why the addiction but rather, why the pain? Because substance abuse usually stems from unbearable emotional pain…
I’m happy to say that I’m still sober, and I calculated the actual date and it’s 4 years next month 😇 I joined a sobriety group on TH-cam too, just to put in some additional support networking (you can never have too much).
If anyone else is on a sobriety journey or wanting to get sober, I highly recommend The Life Boat on TH-cam. They go live twice a day to operate kind of like AA/NA meetings or check ins. They have a Facebook group and Discord server too, and everyone there is so so kind and supportive! 🙏🏻✨💖
Wait, why are you laughing about being hungover trying to help people get sober?!
We need more psychiatrists!
We need better diets, exercise, hobbies, friends, family and a relationship with God. Oh.... and less internet.
@@rjthomasindyusa no, we need more people to take mental illness seriously. Blowing off illness with "oh you just need diet, exercise, ect" is patronizing. You probably wouldn't say that to someone who needed cancer treatment.
@rjthomasindyusa ✨LesS InTeRneT✨ ur on ur fycking phone dumbas sorry for shit spelling 👀
Going to rehab in 4 weeks 😮😢
Read this and saw that u wrote it abt 4 weeks ago, congrats and hope ur doing well :))
How's it going?
Clean! Not without struggles but holding on!
Please, please evaluate BoJack Horseman. It has many facets of addiction, abuse, mental illnesses and passed on trauma(s)
If one drinks once in a blue moon, around 10-20 beers, it is possible for the hangovers to develop into withdrawals? Is the only solution to cutout drinking entirely?
Just drink if you are enjoying it. I have a problem also. I drink heavily on weekends. But I’m a professional driver Monday to Friday so I don’t drink whatever on those days. If drinking is affecting your life or job I would be worried. If not, cheers🍻🥂
Unlikely. I didn't get withdrawals until 9+ years of professional binge drinking, 1.75L of cheap vodka every day for weeks on end. 10-20 beers "once in a blue moon" won't do it. 10-20 beers a day for days on end will do it to ya though.
@@timring3684yeah that happened to me, I was a month sober then relapsed, 20 beers a day for 2weeks then stopped again, full withdrawal, 15 days sober now
Please keep up your videos. I have a 45 y.o. Son and it’s helpful to hear an almost psychiatrist teach
Not enough psychiatrists in the world to help our loved ones
Thanks
You guys never talk about the extreme, extreme cravings. It feels impossible to resist.
I feel it now I want coors light so badly to get rid of the anxiety
Start running. I swear it works wonders
It's *so* important that people don't go around saying "You have to stop drinking - Just stop!", because - as you said - it doesn't work that way.
Quitting Cold Turkey is really dangerous. I should know, I've had DT two times. Hopefully the last times in my life, but even the second time around, I got told by some people to "Just quit drinking".
Eeeh... no.
Great information for those people!
just stop. you know what i wana do once i hear that? once you leave ima drink
@ccxfrank109 omg fr
I'm slowly weening myself off until finally I'll be at zero. I'm confused if I'm experiencing DT or not. I wake up early every morning regardless of how late I go to sleep, then I toss and turn and I keep stretching my legs straight and then my body shakes and I'm almost shivering for a while. Then I have a drink and I feel good. Slowly drinking less and less every week but just wondering if these are DTs or just a morning stretch.
I went to hospital two days ago with alcohol withdrawals. They sent me home. I'm waiting to do a home detox. I've been drinking heavily for 10 days. The doctor who saw me said I wasn't in withdrawal. I'm terrified of keeping drinking at home alone until I have to detox.
Just found your channel, maybe I'm just stopping by your most recent video to say I hope you keep making video's since I'm really enjoying watching them. I might have another reason for watching this video specifically who knows.
The last time was the last time for me. I had terrible withdrawal after going on a weeklong bender of about 30 oz of liquor per day. I was in absolute agony. Went to my GP, who prescribed Librium (chlordiazapoxide). It took me from hell to wonderful relaxation. I think the dose was 25 or 50 mg. Thank God for that stuff.
Thank God for substitutes, right? ;)
@@sergedenovo2389For the short term, yes. I took Librium for a few days, maybe 5, then I was good.
Can you get dts if you've had a drink because you've drank more than usual for a week or do you only get dts when you've totally stopped drinking
Thank you for this video Dr Syl. I believe you hit the nail on the head when you said it's essentially a " no brainer". Exactly! If you've drank excessively most your life being a casual drinker is not an sensible option .
The upside is ones life can be enriched by a sense of clarity and purpose. This is my truth.
Can you have this without having addiction I hardly drink but always have sevear tremors/shaking at night after drinking and really really nauseous.
Great vid. Nice and clear. I need to taper, in a country that throws us into communist-style prison hospitals if we admit ourselves. Just. Need. To . Taper. Swimming and exercise are the best way to move forward. Plus the mild benzos and anti-seizure meds (Carbamazepine).
Ease off with beer tappering off slowly decreasing beer everyday
I watch these videos 2 understand my son
Wow, thank you for sharing! I really like the way you phrase things here. A key point that i know will really positively impact my life is,
"youre stuck with your body and you've got to get along with yourself"
A big reason i personally drink is bc of the self hate. I'm 32 and i know i have to face this. Telling myself "i'm stuck with this body" kind of feels like i'm disconnecting one from the other, if that makes sense. For example, just bc i hate myself doesn't mean i get to treat my body like this. Which then can allow me to focus on what i can do to help this "body im stuck with" instead of feeling like I have to make it through each day with this body. IDK perspective is key!
5 years sober now and i feel great with no more DTs and hangovers with seizures. That is a horrible way to live and I lived it for years. Thank you Lord for delivering me from that bondage
Any advice for someone waiting for a detox bed? Whos had prior seizures? Thank you
..My daughter is 7 days in, and still feels like crap..
Thank you for sharing. my kind of information
I'd love to see more of psychiatric analysis from footage of people with different mental disorders
Hi, I am in treatment now for alcohol dependency, but I also suffer from depression and anxiety, I am not like most other people who suffer from this, I am in full time work. My main concern is that I have to deal with multiple agencies, and yet still keep a full time job. It is getting hard for me to deal with everything, and yet, keep my head above board
I got prescribed paxil and Xanax to deal with the alcohol withdrawal. If I don't drink I don't need them. Problem is after about a week of no alcohol I feel better but still have the shakes but feel like I can drink a couple of days straight and go back to normal after a week off. It sucks.
Would it be safe to quit cold turkey if you're a weekend drinker?
One million percent!!
Good luck on your journey :D
Doc when are you reacting to more Scrubs?
Wtf ?
I’ve been drinking heavy for 40 years now. Only on weekends though. I don’t drink whatsoever Sunday to Thursday . Is this a problem? Or just enjoying partying every weekend?
As long as ur not constantly craving alcohol I wouldn’t say that’s a massive problem but binge drinking to any extent is bad for your physical health hope thus helped :)
@@EvieWainwright-ny2owThanks for the reply. I’m drinking now but I’m taking a couple of months off. Hopefully.
I'm never going to give up drinking alcohol... They tried to make me go to rehab, but I said, "No, no, no".
It's your choice
It's your body
It's your Life, I wish you well. ✌🏻
my BF is a doctor. he uses social reasons as excuses to drink, often several dozens of glasses of wine per week now. We've been seeing the criteria of hyper alcoholism together at some of his home training; yet a few days after, he went above 5 glasses per 2 hours during the whole night...and the second night of doing that, he insisted on taking his car after 3 hours of sleep (his smell of alcohol was still so strong it gave me nausea, and i know he had smoked pot too). the more he drinks, the more he's convinced i want to "manipulate" him :'( and says that the problem is not his drinking, but my reaction to it ( though most of the time i have none, knowing how sensitive he is....) . The more he drinks, the more he doesn't respect me (not showing up at meetings with our shrink, saying my fatigue is an excuse though i recently had cancer treatment and still anemia+ long covid, getting mad for nothing more and more often ...) he was seeing an addictologist until this year (he was almost sober in jan/feb after 3 months of selincro) but he stopped seeing hem , although he keeps on drinking more and more on average. I think he considers he's still in control, although not following any of WHO's guidelines for alcohol intake. ... is there anything i could do? do you have any advice for the BF/GF of a person suffering from alcoholism?
I would say that you need to try to figure out why exactly he’s doing it, there tends to b reasoning behind excessive drinking like stress and stuff, u said he’s a doctor and u said bf rather than husband so I assume ur young ( correct me if I’m wrong tho* ) if he’s new to the job he might be stressed cos being a doctor is obv extremely mentally exerting, anyways once u figure out what might b causing it u can do further research to figure out how to lift some weight off his shoulders. Btw don’t take my advice too seriously cos I’m literally a child like I’m not gonna say how old I am cos like ✨StRaNgEr DaNgEr✨ but I’m a child, the only reason I’m offering my advice is cos I personally struggle with alcoholism and I have a drink every morning, (although it’s better than it was like I used to be drinking continuously thruout the day) and in my personal experience it’s because my parents got divorced and my brother has a drug problem wich is stressy asf anyways feel free not to read this because I have no idea what I’m talking about 👍👀👍 Hope ur bf ends out ok :))
I hope he either stopped or you left him. It sounds very abusive tbh and by trying to save him you are bing co dependent and facilitating his behaviour x update is if you can. The insanity of a doctor refuting exhaustion in partner to deflect is seriously concerning
My story: I was a binge drinker for 50 years. How did I stop drinking so easily? I skipped the counseling and anonymous platitudes. I went to my doctor. He gave me a choice of two remedies. The monthly injection of Vivitrol or the daily 50mg tablet of naltrexone. I took the tablets for 30 days to detox and almost immediately lost the cravings for beer. Losing the cravings was as easy as taking Motrin for muscle aches. Mark me safe from alcohol
But you were used to drink lot beer daily like 2 liters or more
@@vitorbarradas7430 Beer on the brain. Everyday there was a plan to drink beer after noon or early evening. The craving was annoying even though I wanted to not drink. Googled my problem and got a video from TH-cam about naltrexone and the Sinclair method. Went to my doctor with my problem and got the prescription. 6 weeks later the craving faded away.
@@vitorbarradas7430 My reply got deleted somehow. I use the Sinclair method.
First thing that happens with alcoholism is depression. Not everyone is fortunate to have insurance or a GP. ...But congrats.
Ur cute doc.. U can b my Dr. Anytime.
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Doctor won't give me ativan. Hospital would not help. So I bought 2mg Xanax bars one time from a paramedic friend.
It worked but I would rather have lorazapam from a doctor.
same
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