Brilliant video mate, you're doing great work, thank you for helping everyone. 1997 to 2024, tried quitting many times over the years but it always kept coming back in, I was a functional alcoholic. 2024 it got so bad! Had to quit and change my life, this nasty crap is finally out of my life NEVER AGAIN!
1 week for me. Ive seen the light finally after drinking since 18 and I'm 44 now. Good luck mate. It's not been as hard as I thought. 2 litres of gin a week or more.
@@scuba_steve73 I'm 42 and been drinking since I was around 16... I've stopped a few times, only to start drinking again after a few weeks/months... You must be feeling great after not drinking for a week... The best part for me when I've stopped before is the better quality of sleep that you get.. sometimes it takes more than a week though.. please don't make the mistake of having 'just 1" drink... That's what has caused me to slip back into being a daily drinker every time I've quit.. I'm going to try again as from today... I hope you stay off the booze bud... Will be the best thing you've ever done.. being sober has so many benefits... I hope I can stick to it this time...
@@scuba_steve73I’m 45 and stopped 3 weeks ago, and the cigarettes as well, it’s actually been very easy. I exercise every day now, walking and swimming and am feeling good . Also eating highly nutritious meals which get rid of all cravings because your cells in your body are actually being fed.
Make sure you research PAWS (post acute withdrawal syndrome) which can occur months after getting sober. These episodes usually last 1-3 days. It’s basically depression, apathy, sometimes even odd physical pain. These periods of your brain attempting to heal can lead to thoughts of, “What’s the point of sobriety?” and relapse.
Alcohol has nearly ruined my life. Two weeks sober, and I am taking it very seriously . Can't do this to myself or the people who care about me anymore.
I drank for 47 years. From "77" to "91" it was pretty crazy. From "92" to "02" a gallon of vodka a night. Switched to brandy in "03" drank 2.75 liter every night until "12" switched back to vodka. Drank half gallon a day until "24". Not to mention all the coke, opiates I did to make it to work. 35 days sober. Congestive heart failure that is treatable. Fatty liver but no cirrhosis. Truly blessed.
@@RaymondSell yes those last 20 years was many hospitals with alcohol poisoning. 7 DUIs. Countless drunk in publics. Very very blessed not to have got in a lot more trouble. It doesn't matter how long it takes we can always get recovery.
I couldn't tell you how many times I quit drinking. The problem was that I did it for the people around me. I finally realized that I had to do it for me. July 22nd, 2015, was my last drink. God willing, it'll stay that way. I still crave it, but I crave what I have now a lot more.
Alcohol sucks! I wasted a decade of my life with it! I was a toxic, drama queen...mean and angry! I was a horrible person drinking. Very dark. Very depressed! I will never go back!
I know someone right now who is struggling. Stopping is hard when it’s all around you. Some people don’t seem to have a problem that way and some have to leave all temptation behind.
If you’re a true alcoholic like me, you will NEVER regain control of drinking. The only way is total abstinence. Many alcoholics pursue returning to a normal drinker (controlled drinking) to the gates of insanity and death. If you’re a real alcoholic like myself DONT drink no matter what. I’m coming up on 3 years free from alcohol. The hardest damned thing I’ve ever went through.
you ever went through? past tense? the guy from malibu rehab says" i used to be an addict now im not. youyy are clean and crazy. its the hardest thing you are going through, not went through. just for today
I want to but how do you deal with life being so boring without it? I enioy having some drinks and playing pc games. So much more fun when drinking, than sober.
3 weeks sober, walk 4km a day, swim for an hour at the pool every second day. Feel amazing already and the beer gut is slowly melting away. I can now go to the shopping centre and no longer have social anxiety. Haven’t felt like this for years.
🏆This is the most important video on TH-cam!🏆 It must be shown at every school and college and rewatched until alcohol becomes illegal once again....... Matthew & Jordan absolutely nailed it! Masterclass of life! Be strong everyone .....you are the creator of your own world......
The saddest part for me to accept after I left the parties, was that those "friends" were never true. You stop going a few times and people stop inviting you, I haven't been invited and forgotten for almost a year... I never post anything "cool" and I keep telling myself, that it's better to be alone than with bad company. My work has flourished, I work on my hobbies more during the weekends, I spend time with my parents, more money on my wallet, better health and have met a few interesting people who I can actually talk to, without the need to be drunk. It is true, Alcohol only brings negatives in every area to your life.
Yep. Non drinkers live a more fulfilled life. Drinkers think they are but it’s quite the opposite. I’d rather be happy in my own little world in nature, living a simple life than one surrounded by chaos and drama. 🎭
The best motivation is the people that you assumed always had their lives together because of their successes but find out they were in their own hell with the booze and other drugs and were able to get out of those situations. More people need to look at alcohol as the drug that it is. I live in the US, midwest region, and you really stand out in a crowd when you arent holding a cold one at a sporting event, party, or bar. Im also a singer-songwriter. So when Im playing gigs at bars, its just so amusing to observe people while Im performing.
@@PaulHabrelewicz-s3r those are the ones fearful of what you have become. They wish to be like you. You tell them ..and all you have to do is ask how ..you tell them
im 50. i got terminally ill after the vaccine. my woman that i loved died from it. i started skateboarding again after 25 years away from it. im beating my illness. skateboards will set you free. all i want to drink now is water and juice and sometimes milk and soda. not together. you know what i mean damnit lol
I'm close to your age (47), and I too was into skateboarding from the 1980s - 2000s. I still have a few old decks from the 1990s, and one complete. I've been wanting to get back into skateboarding AND ice hockey for a long time, and I just may do that! Glad to hear you're doing well. Also, it's good to hear of other "Gen-X" aged people still into skateboarding! Also, I am so sorry to hear about your loss, and your own health issues. My father-in-law had a stroke and died after taking the jab. My wife and I declined that experimental jab, thank God.
@@Stanley.77 thanks man. dont hesitate to come back. my only regret is i didnt do it sooner. after a week you will remember. at that point its welcome back to THE addiction!
so sorry to hear about you getting ill after the vaccine, and sorry about losing the woman that you loved. That is some really, really tough stuff. Happy for you for the changes you are making. Best of luck to you and God Bless.
A lot of powerful truth in this video, when you do become sober you WILL find out who your REAL friends are and who were just drinking buddies, for sure!!
72 years of age, born in '51 during the Korean War, into an alcoholic home afflicted with domestic violence... as a juvenile delinquent during the '60's, and a habitual offender during the '70's, eventually a convicted felon. Cross addicted to various drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, promiscuity, idolatry and immoral behaviors...eventually 'saved and sober' for 42 years since I was 'born again' at the old Steuben County Jail in '81 from the time I was 30 years of age onward. Eventually by the Lord's Saving Grace, I've overcame with recovery group moral support, and other contributing factors, addictions to every form of alcohol, illegal drugs, and unhealthy cigarettes • and am better off now than anytime 😊 in my entire life!! God bless you!!
I grew up around alcoholics. The weekend drinker that drinks as much as possible, the wake up and crack open a beer before even wipeing the sleep from their eyes, the Jekyll and hyde drinker who is sappy and all hugs to then being offended and distructive... ect. I always wondered what they would be like if alcohol never existed.
It takes guts to confront oneself. Finally, a collective moral/hopeful message from influential celebrities. I would love to see similar messages on drugs addiction. Cheers! (Oh don't worry. I only do sparkling ciders.) 😂😂😂
Day 427 without drinking thank you interwebs my only sober support. Everyone I love is still drinking in front of me, I think about it everyday. Seeing my dad acting the same way I was, not listening to anyone that didn't agree with you 😢 I know where I learned my selfish ways.
Been sober 2 years now. Drank for 22 years and all of my adult life. Really excited to see how sober feels long term! Now there is a new definition floating around that sober isn’t really sober. Very dangerous as people try to change the meaning of sober to fit their narrative.
I had a female friend who admitted she has an alcohol problem, yet when her son decided to want to live with her dad, she gets all pissy and heart broken that her son chose that. Seriously, she didn’t want to admit to herself that she’s hurting her child in the environment she created.
We dont need to ban more activities... we have free will. We need to be educated and informed in order to make better choices. But yes- it was a wonderful presentation. Thank You
Thank you for having this conversation at long last. Next up, how SUGAR is the most destructive drug to humans, maybe not to those around us, but to our SELVES, yes.
I've been sober for 6 months now, and mostly sober for a year. Daily drinking of vodka, or whiskey for the last few years was starting to take a toll. I'm so happy I quit.
I haven’t had a drop of alcohol in 27 years! Life is so much better without it! I hope people with problems can overcome them! Life can be cruel sometimes but it can also be beautiful! I hope everyone finds their peace!
I’m 53, drank for over 30 years and ramped it up over Covid like a lot of people. Today I am 2.5 years post liver and kidney transplant and 3 years sober. Now I’m horrified when I see everyone’s booze pics on Facebook constantly - no one thinks it will happen to them. Guess what- it does. Alcohol put me on dialysis and in liver and kidney failure - never again.
The advocates of vodka, wine, beer, assure us in advance that these drinks enhance the health and strength, that they warm and cheer. But now it is indisputably proved that this is not true. Intoxicating beverages do not improve the health, because they contain a violent poison,-alcohol,-and the use of a poison cannot fail to be injurious. - Leo Tolstoy (in 1896).
Alcohol is also very high in calories. I don’t overeat because I always fill up my body with right foods, but you can easily consume 5,000 cal in a day thanks to Alcohol. (On alcohol your brain has a harder time saying when to stop; it doesn’t have an alcohol fullness cue). In my younger days, I went running lots and got some weight off me, but I noticed as soon as I turned 21 and alcohol was normalized in my life I had a lot harder time getting the weight back off. Alcohol’s not worth sacrificing your fitness and health over.
it's probably the most dangerous because if you are of age you can buy it any where. The world complains about the drunk drivers and now you can buy alcohol at the gas stations. It actually relieved my physical pain like nothing else.
Thankfully I stopped drinking alcohol 2014i February that year I saw myself in the mirror and was bummed. I looked like Homer Simpson. With hair. So I cut back on my sugar intake by 90%. And my desire for a couple of tequila shots just vanished. After a month or so, idealized I hadn’t wanted to drink anything alcohol ic. And driving became a privilege to me. Of the 2 or 3 times I had to talk to a cop I said I don’t drink. They all asked , you don’t?. No I don’t . I felt freedom of ye complications due to drinking. It’s not been difficult at all. When offered a drink , I always say that I don’t drink. Inside I smile when I say that. It’s a freedom that you earn. By not doing anything . Freedom is worth the cost. The cost of not drinking. Freedom. Freedom.
See this is the thing, alcohol was never fun for me?! Am I the only one who doesn't like the nasty sloshed feeling, it makes me feel tired,dumb, and too lazy to accomplish my dreams.
Like lots of things we suffer from as a society, you need to follow the money, the makers, the sellers, even the tax collectors. Seeing the results in hospitals would bring the reality to those that see it as harmless. How many need to die from the action done whilst under the influence.
I need to give up (again)... It's at a point now where I literally drink nothing apart from alcohol.. I know I can stop overnight as I've done it a few times.. 7 months was the longest I lasted.. until I decided to have a shandy on a hot summers day... I'm 42 and have 2 children under 10... I need to sort my shit out as I want to see them grow up and become adults... The way I'm going I will be dead in a few years.. do I need help to stop?? No..... Do I need help to stay sober?? Yes!!
See this is the thing, alcohol was never fun for me?! Am I the only one who doesn't like the nasty sloshed feeling, it makes me feel tired,dumb, and too lazy to accomplish my dreams. Like at least amphetamines you could work like a horse and make some Good money or workout. But Alcohol is just stupid. It's a stupid man's drug.
@@sayedalazam4228 it definitely is... I'm 100% certain that I would have my own house etc by now if I had never touched alcohol.. it's the worst drug in the world.. when I've given up in the past I've felt amazing.. even just after a week or 2.. so much more energy and focus... But it hasn't lasted..I need help to stay off it once I've stopped
You cant say you have the will to stop if you can’t make it past 7 months.. you need help to stop AND stay sober. Just see it for the toxin/poison it is and I believe you can stop but by all means if you need help theres absolutely no shame in that and you should definitely seek it.. you can do it
My room mate who is 59 and is an alcoholic recently had a rude awakening! He now have pancreatitis! Gall stone , and diverticulitis too all at the same time! The er, admission Doctor and a nurse practitioner who monitored him while he stayed in the hospital, all said to him, quit or die!
If you want to stop drinking? You have to be very hard on yourself, If you find yourself thinking about having a drink ,STOP ,!!!!!REFLECT!!!! THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES!!!! BRING IN THE JUDGE ,YOUR MIND, think about all the bad things that have happened to you because of your drinking, Now say to yourself if I have this first drink the outcome will be the same as the second drink then next thing you know your drunk ,So tell yourself NO NO NO !!!! I am not doing this ,I am strong, and a good person, I don't need to drink ,look at everyone else, there not drinking, So iam not going to drink, right back to living again, NO iam not going to be weak !!! I'am strong and a good person come on let's go, I feel great iam good iam strong,,I am happy ,woo hoo yes iam strong ,Right back to living
Just one drink doesn't always turn into alcoholism. Having a beer with a meal is fine. You have a good message for alcoholics, but that's no reason to ban it for everyone else.
Im a stress drinker. One thing I know, is that, it takes away muscle gains. It isn't hard for me to quit drinking. I feel for people that it becomes a monster in their lives.
The best times of my life have been with alcohol. The kind of fun you’d see from buddy comedy movies from the 90s and 2000s. I don’t drink anymore cause I can’t withstand the hangovers but my life has been full and joyless without alcohol
I agree about everything mentioned about alcohol but modern Americans have far more chemical addictions than just that. What would life be like if we suddenly didn't have access to all our antidepressants and addictive drugs both legal and illegal. I know many people that have been avoiding reality for 50 years and many others that drugs are the number 1 most important thing in their life but will never admit to it
They key for me is to not drink at home and only socially. Not that I have much of s social life theses days lol. So this equals drinking next to no alcohol theses days.
My dad veteran of 3 wars WW2 Korea Vietnam.. he and his buddies would drink hard.. until one day my dad wrecked his car.. Driving drunk he was grateful he didn’t kill anyone.. He stopped drinking in 1975 I will always remember.. and never touched a drop for 30yrs till his death.. And his 3 children never touched any alcohol..It destroys and kills..
Alcohol made me a mess as a young adult. After going carnivore over a year and a half ago, the craving for beer went completely away. I haven't drunk anything but water in over a year. I'm in the process of pouring all our bottles of liquor down the sink and repurposing the liquor cabinet! What to do with 20 year old bottles of expensive wine?
I've known 4 people who have past away from alcohol, and that's not including a couple of people who have gone because of drunk drivers, I've known heaps of cigarette smokers none have past away from it.
No. Studies do indeed show that 1-2 drinks, on a semi-occasional basis, is indeed healthy. The trouble is, for someone like me, I find it very difficult to have 1-2. Because 1-2 doesn't do much for me, and by the time I've had 2, I think, heh, I could probably have 4. And by the time I've had 4, I'm more disinhibited, and I'll end up having 8. And by the time I've had 8, I might very well end up having 12, if I can afford it. I think being over the top and saying even 1 drink is terribly horrible is only going to turn people off the message. It's ridiculous.
If you can turn 1 into 12, then it sounds like you're the precisely the person he's trying to reach. There's zero benefits to drinking alcohol, and we both know that.
I drank for tolerance of my life and family. I quit 7 years ago and learning to quit tolerating. I stay away from all of them ..they dont know the person i am today .and dont care too they cant catergorize as they did before. Frunk and angry a lot of the time..frinking was my reward to me and finacally taking care of 5 people.. and i get the crumbs left over for myself...so i became honest with myself. And divorced after 17 years of marriage. Eord to wise dont get married.until you are ready Figure you out first and control your urges. Its s lifetime of confusion if you dont. I married at 21. Young and dumb a full of come face it thats it you got sucked into another ones 10:08 dream not yours because you didnt know yet ..what your dreams were
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Brilliant video mate, you're doing great work, thank you for helping everyone. 1997 to 2024, tried quitting many times over the years but it always kept coming back in, I was a functional alcoholic. 2024 it got so bad! Had to quit and change my life, this nasty crap is finally out of my life NEVER AGAIN!
2 weeks sober, I've never felt this confident before, life is good!
wow thats amazing!!
1 week for me. Ive seen the light finally after drinking since 18 and I'm 44 now. Good luck mate. It's not been as hard as I thought. 2 litres of gin a week or more.
@@scuba_steve73 I'm 42 and been drinking since I was around 16... I've stopped a few times, only to start drinking again after a few weeks/months... You must be feeling great after not drinking for a week... The best part for me when I've stopped before is the better quality of sleep that you get.. sometimes it takes more than a week though.. please don't make the mistake of having 'just 1" drink... That's what has caused me to slip back into being a daily drinker every time I've quit.. I'm going to try again as from today... I hope you stay off the booze bud... Will be the best thing you've ever done.. being sober has so many benefits... I hope I can stick to it this time...
@@scuba_steve73I’m 45 and stopped 3 weeks ago, and the cigarettes as well, it’s actually been very easy. I exercise every day now, walking and swimming and am feeling good . Also eating highly nutritious meals which get rid of all cravings because your cells in your body are actually being fed.
Make sure you research PAWS (post acute withdrawal syndrome) which can occur months after getting sober. These episodes usually last 1-3 days. It’s basically depression, apathy, sometimes even odd physical pain. These periods of your brain attempting to heal can lead to thoughts of, “What’s the point of sobriety?” and relapse.
Alcohol has nearly ruined my life. Two weeks sober, and I am taking it very seriously . Can't do this to myself or the people who care about me anymore.
Good job, keep it up, did same to me, alcohol free now 18 years
8yrs clean, it gets better everyday. Congratulations
I can relate it affects everyone around you actually Disrupts everyone that loves and you love…it’s heart wrenching….it gets better everyday!
Proud of you!
I stopped drinking alcohol over 8 years ago. Best thing I ever did!
I did as well, thanks to the freedom from addiction through Jesus Christ
Quit two and a half years ago. My only regret is i didn't stop sooner. I love my life now and there is no looking back.
13 years sober. This is the best documentary on alcohol I’ve ever seen! Something for every alcoholic!
I drank for 47 years. From "77" to "91" it was pretty crazy. From "92" to "02" a gallon of vodka a night. Switched to brandy in "03" drank 2.75 liter every night until "12" switched back to vodka. Drank half gallon a day until "24". Not to mention all the coke, opiates I did to make it to work. 35 days sober. Congestive heart failure that is treatable. Fatty liver but no cirrhosis. Truly blessed.
Damm! 9 lives.
a handle of vodka is really bad welcome back man. my dad was doing the same and we almost lost him. im all for banning vodka and booze.
Man... From 1977!? You must have some crazy stories from back in the day.
@@sayedalazam4228 lot of acid. Rock.concerts and getting laid. From "77" to "91"
@@RaymondSell yes those last 20 years was many hospitals with alcohol poisoning. 7 DUIs. Countless drunk in publics. Very very blessed not to have got in a lot more trouble. It doesn't matter how long it takes we can always get recovery.
Jordan Peterson nails is: The substitute for addiction is not sobriety, it's to have adventure and something worth to wake up for.
So true , 62 been drinking 40 years , stopped now feel good , anger iv wasted so much time , but gonna make up for it in the future 😁
May god bless all whom are battling alcohol.
I couldn't tell you how many times I quit drinking. The problem was that I did it for the people around me. I finally realized that I had to do it for me. July 22nd, 2015, was my last drink. God willing, it'll stay that way. I still crave it, but I crave what I have now a lot more.
Alcohol sucks! I wasted a decade of my life with it! I was a toxic, drama queen...mean and angry! I was a horrible person drinking. Very dark. Very depressed! I will never go back!
I know someone right now who is struggling. Stopping is hard when it’s all around you. Some people don’t seem to have a problem that way and some have to leave all temptation behind.
@@kariannep1548 Leaving all temptation behind opens up into a whole new life.
You still are bad
@@trickywily2823 I hope God blesses you with sobriety
If you’re a true alcoholic like me, you will NEVER regain control of drinking. The only way is total abstinence. Many alcoholics pursue returning to a normal drinker (controlled drinking) to the gates of insanity and death. If you’re a real alcoholic like myself DONT drink no matter what. I’m coming up on 3 years free from alcohol. The hardest damned thing I’ve ever went through.
No dam doubt!!!
you ever went through? past tense? the guy from malibu rehab says" i used to be an addict now im not. youyy are clean and crazy. its the hardest thing you are going through, not went through. just for today
Exactly, you have to come to reality which takes humility. It controls you, you don’t control it.
@@chrhadden We DO recover, is why I worded it that way.
I want to but how do you deal with life being so boring without it?
I enioy having some drinks and playing pc games. So much more fun when drinking, than sober.
3 weeks sober, walk 4km a day, swim for an hour at the pool every second day. Feel amazing already and the beer gut is slowly melting away. I can now go to the shopping centre and no longer have social anxiety. Haven’t felt like this for years.
Jesus is the only answer to set you free from your addictions
I know that whole three day binge drinking cycle. I’m SO grateful I’m free from it now.
choking that first sip of vodka down 9am as soon as the store opens and trying your hardest not to throw up. good times man
🏆This is the most important video on TH-cam!🏆
It must be shown at every school and college and rewatched until alcohol becomes illegal once again....... Matthew & Jordan absolutely nailed it! Masterclass of life! Be strong everyone .....you are the creator of your own world......
Not feeling is not healing.
Can't fix what is not faced.
I've lost people I love due to their alcoholism and depression. Its heart breaking
Little clips from that remarkable David Bowie about how happy he became without alcohol, brings goosebumps to my arms!
how is david bowie "infamous" did not think he was a baddie
@@ianjones9498 You are correct. He was not a baddie! I used the wrong word!!
Jesus Christ worked for me. He is the way, the truth and the life.
Amen! So true.
Thank you for your passion! I’m about to be a grandma and WILL NOT drink. Not worth the risks anymore ❤
8 months sober. I've never felt this good since my teenage years.
last sip was... june 24th 2017 (jim beam)
Maudite ("Dammed") for me... May 1st, 2023.😶
Almost two years sober and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done for myself 🙏🦋
I celebrate 10 years alcohol free in 2 days, now son has stopped drinking 2 years ago. It was hard, but so worth it!
The saddest part for me to accept after I left the parties, was that those "friends" were never true. You stop going a few times and people stop inviting you, I haven't been invited and forgotten for almost a year... I never post anything "cool" and I keep telling myself, that it's better to be alone than with bad company. My work has flourished, I work on my hobbies more during the weekends, I spend time with my parents, more money on my wallet, better health and have met a few interesting people who I can actually talk to, without the need to be drunk. It is true, Alcohol only brings negatives in every area to your life.
they weren't friends they were drinking buddies big deference between a true friend and a drinking buddy
Yep. Non drinkers live a more fulfilled life. Drinkers think they are but it’s quite the opposite. I’d rather be happy in my own little world in nature, living a simple life than one surrounded by chaos and drama. 🎭
The best motivation is the people that you assumed always had their lives together because of their successes but find out they were in their own hell with the booze and other drugs and were able to get out of those situations. More people need to look at alcohol as the drug that it is. I live in the US, midwest region, and you really stand out in a crowd when you arent holding a cold one at a sporting event, party, or bar. Im also a singer-songwriter. So when Im playing gigs at bars, its just so amusing to observe people while Im performing.
i have known several of them and also hard drug users. i met a doctor who drug of choice was main lining coffee and vodka. he didnt "look the type"
I play in 3 bands and been sober for 27 years! People do wonder about me bc I don’t drink! They tend to stay away from me and I find it funny! lol!!!
@@PaulHabrelewicz-s3r those are the ones fearful of what you have become. They wish to be like you. You tell them ..and all you have to do is ask how ..you tell them
2.5 years sober! AA helped me.
I just stopped in 2019. Life is so much better!
im 50. i got terminally ill after the vaccine. my woman that i loved died from it. i started skateboarding again after 25 years away from it. im beating my illness. skateboards will set you free. all i want to drink now is water and juice and sometimes milk and soda. not together. you know what i mean damnit lol
Sorry to hear about your loss my mate 😞…good luck on your future I hope it all works out ok for you mate
That’s horrible mate! 😢
I'm close to your age (47), and I too was into skateboarding from the 1980s - 2000s. I still have a few old decks from the 1990s, and one complete. I've been wanting to get back into skateboarding AND ice hockey for a long time, and I just may do that! Glad to hear you're doing well. Also, it's good to hear of other "Gen-X" aged people still into skateboarding!
Also, I am so sorry to hear about your loss, and your own health issues. My father-in-law had a stroke and died after taking the jab.
My wife and I declined that experimental jab, thank God.
@@Stanley.77 thanks man. dont hesitate to come back. my only regret is i didnt do it sooner. after a week you will remember. at that point its welcome back to THE addiction!
so sorry to hear about you getting ill after the vaccine, and sorry about losing the woman that you loved. That is some really, really tough stuff. Happy for you for the changes you are making. Best of luck to you and God Bless.
20 years sober, and I am grateful and do not miss booze!!!
Free will, its a thing worth defending.
Prohibition did and does not work. We are not all the same and will make different choices.
Thank you for your video. Thank you for all your hard work. Thank you for your knowledge
A lot of powerful truth in this video, when you do become sober you WILL find out who your REAL friends are and who were just drinking buddies, for sure!!
72 years of age, born in '51 during the Korean War, into an alcoholic home afflicted with domestic violence... as a juvenile delinquent during the '60's, and a habitual offender during the '70's, eventually a convicted felon. Cross addicted to various drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, promiscuity, idolatry and immoral behaviors...eventually 'saved and sober' for 42 years since I was 'born again' at the old Steuben County Jail in '81 from the time I was 30 years of age onward. Eventually by the Lord's Saving Grace, I've overcame with recovery group moral support, and other contributing factors, addictions to every form of alcohol, illegal drugs, and unhealthy cigarettes • and am better off now than anytime 😊 in my entire life!! God bless you!!
Thank you for helping people 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I grew up around alcoholics. The weekend drinker that drinks as much as possible, the wake up and crack open a beer before even wipeing the sleep from their eyes, the Jekyll and hyde drinker who is sappy and all hugs to then being offended and distructive... ect. I always wondered what they would be like if alcohol never existed.
It takes guts to confront oneself. Finally, a collective moral/hopeful message from influential celebrities. I would love to see similar messages on drugs addiction. Cheers! (Oh don't worry. I only do sparkling ciders.) 😂😂😂
Day 427 without drinking thank you interwebs my only sober support. Everyone I love is still drinking in front of me, I think about it everyday. Seeing my dad acting the same way I was, not listening to anyone that didn't agree with you 😢 I know where I learned my selfish ways.
Been sober 2 years now. Drank for 22 years and all of my adult life. Really excited to see how sober feels long term! Now there is a new definition floating around that sober isn’t really sober. Very dangerous as people try to change the meaning of sober to fit their narrative.
I had a female friend who admitted she has an alcohol problem, yet when her son decided to want to live with her dad, she gets all pissy and heart broken that her son chose that. Seriously, she didn’t want to admit to herself that she’s hurting her child in the environment she created.
Stop drinking so you will know what they are doing to you. You need to be sober so you can hear the lies.
My father died from alcoholism at 59 & it’s such a turn off….. alcoholism ruins families & affects generations, alcohol kills 💔
Make it a bud lite
We dont need to ban more activities... we have free will.
We need to be educated and informed in order to make better choices.
But yes- it was a wonderful presentation.
Thank You
Great video thanks for sharing 🙏🏼💯🙏
3 years sober and it’s the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. Why do we celebrate by killing ourselves with poison?
Thank you for having this conversation at long last.
Next up, how SUGAR is the most destructive drug to humans, maybe not to those around us, but to our SELVES, yes.
Thank Goodness I stopped liking Poison since 2000 at The Office Christmas Party!🎉🎉😘🥳🥳🥳🥳
What a beautiful video, thanks for sharing this.
I've been sober for 6 months now, and mostly sober for a year. Daily drinking of vodka, or whiskey for the last few years was starting to take a toll. I'm so happy I quit.
Great job, keep it up
I was sober for six and a half years but I have been drinking again for almost four years. I love how it makes me NOT feel
I haven’t had a drop of alcohol in 27 years! Life is so much better without it! I hope people with problems can overcome them! Life can be cruel sometimes but it can also be beautiful! I hope everyone finds their peace!
I agree. Ban the evil substance. Everything else is being fazed out. I always thought alcohol would be first!!
I’m 53, drank for over 30 years and ramped it up over Covid like a lot of people. Today I am 2.5 years post liver and kidney transplant and 3 years sober. Now I’m horrified when I see everyone’s booze pics on Facebook constantly - no one thinks it will happen to them. Guess what- it does. Alcohol put me on dialysis and in liver and kidney failure - never again.
The advocates of vodka, wine, beer, assure us in advance that these drinks enhance the health and strength, that they warm and cheer. But now it is indisputably proved that this is not true. Intoxicating beverages do not improve the health, because they contain a violent poison,-alcohol,-and the use of a poison cannot fail to be injurious.
- Leo Tolstoy (in 1896).
This video is amazing ! I wish the entire world watched it. Thank you so much!
Thank you! Staying sober...
Jesus took my desire to drink away. Thank you Jesus.🙏🙏🙏🙏
Alcohol is also very high in calories. I don’t overeat because I always fill up my body with right foods, but you can easily consume 5,000 cal in a day thanks to Alcohol. (On alcohol your brain has a harder time saying when to stop; it doesn’t have an alcohol fullness cue).
In my younger days, I went running lots and got some weight off me, but I noticed as soon as I turned 21 and alcohol was normalized in my life I had a lot harder time getting the weight back off.
Alcohol’s not worth sacrificing your fitness and health over.
Thank you for this program ❤
it's probably the most dangerous because if you are of age you can buy it any where. The world complains about the drunk drivers and now you can buy alcohol at the gas stations.
It actually relieved my physical pain like nothing else.
I don't drink at all any more and am thankful to God for that.
Thankfully I stopped drinking alcohol 2014i February that year I saw myself in the mirror and was bummed. I looked like Homer Simpson. With hair. So I cut back on my sugar intake by 90%. And my desire for a couple of tequila shots just vanished. After a month or so, idealized I hadn’t wanted to drink anything alcohol ic. And driving became a privilege to me. Of the 2 or 3 times I had to talk to a cop I said I don’t drink. They all asked , you don’t?. No I don’t . I felt freedom of ye complications due to drinking. It’s not been difficult at all. When offered a drink , I always say that I don’t drink. Inside I smile when I say that. It’s a freedom that you earn. By not doing anything . Freedom is worth the cost. The cost of not drinking. Freedom. Freedom.
If you “distill” it down to its fundamental properties, it’s just one more drug. It starts out as fun, but there is nothing funny about it.
See this is the thing, alcohol was never fun for me?! Am I the only one who doesn't like the nasty sloshed feeling, it makes me feel tired,dumb, and too lazy to accomplish my dreams.
Like lots of things we suffer from as a society, you need to follow the money, the makers, the sellers, even the tax collectors. Seeing the results in hospitals would bring the reality to those that see it as harmless. How many need to die from the action done whilst under the influence.
I need to give up (again)... It's at a point now where I literally drink nothing apart from alcohol.. I know I can stop overnight as I've done it a few times.. 7 months was the longest I lasted.. until I decided to have a shandy on a hot summers day... I'm 42 and have 2 children under 10... I need to sort my shit out as I want to see them grow up and become adults... The way I'm going I will be dead in a few years.. do I need help to stop?? No..... Do I need help to stay sober?? Yes!!
See this is the thing, alcohol was never fun for me?! Am I the only one who doesn't like the nasty sloshed feeling, it makes me feel tired,dumb, and too lazy to accomplish my dreams. Like at least amphetamines you could work like a horse and make some Good money or workout. But Alcohol is just stupid. It's a stupid man's drug.
@@sayedalazam4228 it definitely is... I'm 100% certain that I would have my own house etc by now if I had never touched alcohol.. it's the worst drug in the world.. when I've given up in the past I've felt amazing.. even just after a week or 2.. so much more energy and focus... But it hasn't lasted..I need help to stay off it once I've stopped
You cant say you have the will to stop if you can’t make it past 7 months.. you need help to stop AND stay sober. Just see it for the toxin/poison it is and I believe you can stop but by all means if you need help theres absolutely no shame in that and you should definitely seek it.. you can do it
My room mate who is 59 and is an alcoholic recently had a rude awakening! He now have pancreatitis! Gall stone , and diverticulitis too all at the same time! The er, admission Doctor and a nurse practitioner who monitored him while he stayed in the hospital, all said to him, quit or die!
They don't call it Spirits for nothing
5 years sober
If you want to stop drinking? You have to be very hard on yourself, If you find yourself thinking about having a drink ,STOP ,!!!!!REFLECT!!!! THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES!!!! BRING IN THE JUDGE ,YOUR MIND, think about all the bad things that have happened to you because of your drinking, Now say to yourself if I have this first drink the outcome will be the same as the second drink then next thing you know your drunk ,So tell yourself NO NO NO !!!! I am not doing this ,I am strong, and a good person, I don't need to drink ,look at everyone else, there not drinking, So iam not going to drink, right back to living again, NO iam not going to be weak !!! I'am strong and a good person come on let's go, I feel great iam good iam strong,,I am happy ,woo hoo yes iam strong ,Right back to living
Awesome video mate
I want the trejectory of my life to change
The dirtiest thing in this world is alcohol and drugs, and dirtier than that is the one who tells you to drink in moderation.
Just one drink doesn't always turn into alcoholism. Having a beer with a meal is fine. You have a good message for alcoholics, but that's no reason to ban it for everyone else.
I agree. That's not going to stop people from making it.
Just one beer has no mental effects for most people that are a decently heavy body weight and male so why even have one beer
Sounds like something an alcoholic would say.
Most of my regretting life had alcohol involved
5 years no alcohol now not a drop
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Excellent! No drugs, caffeine, nicotine and sugar. Eat fruit. This is how you become nice and alive.
Fruit? No eat eggs and beef.
Thanks. I'm working on it..
Excellent video 💯
Im a stress drinker. One thing I know, is that, it takes away muscle gains. It isn't hard for me to quit drinking. I feel for people that it becomes a monster in their lives.
we need to have prohibition yet again .....because us as a ppl cannot be responsible enough .
The best times of my life have been with alcohol. The kind of fun you’d see from buddy comedy movies from the 90s and 2000s. I don’t drink anymore cause I can’t withstand the hangovers but my life has been full and joyless without alcohol
Alcohol was already prohibited once and that didn't change anything
,,, that, was f@cking awesome... thank you
And it also boils down to SUGAR. A highly ADDICTIVE SUGAR. Not good at all.
Its what you are willing to do to feel happy
.what is happy?? Its different for all
I agree about everything mentioned about alcohol but modern Americans have far more chemical addictions than just that. What would life be like if we suddenly didn't have access to all our antidepressants and addictive drugs both legal and illegal. I know many people that have been avoiding reality for 50 years and many others that drugs are the number 1 most important thing in their life but will never admit to it
They key for me is to not drink at home and only socially. Not that I have much of s social life theses days lol. So this equals drinking next to no alcohol theses days.
Cellphone addiction is some how purely okay. 😂
Who said that?
Solid awareness
Is it a class one carcinogen,?
@@lilylou8528 it’s class one dopamine.
WOW! Thank u. This was a God thing.
My dad veteran of 3 wars WW2 Korea Vietnam.. he and his buddies would drink hard.. until one day my dad wrecked his car.. Driving drunk he was grateful he didn’t kill anyone.. He stopped drinking in 1975 I will always remember.. and never touched a drop for 30yrs till his death.. And his 3 children never touched any alcohol..It destroys and kills..
Alcohol made me a mess as a young adult. After going carnivore over a year and a half ago, the craving for beer went completely away. I haven't drunk anything but water in over a year. I'm in the process of pouring all our bottles of liquor down the sink and repurposing the liquor cabinet! What to do with 20 year old bottles of expensive wine?
Sale the wine!
I've known 4 people who have past away from alcohol, and that's not including a couple of people who have gone because of drunk drivers, I've known heaps of cigarette smokers none have past away from it.
No. Studies do indeed show that 1-2 drinks, on a semi-occasional basis, is indeed healthy. The trouble is, for someone like me, I find it very difficult to have 1-2. Because 1-2 doesn't do much for me, and by the time I've had 2, I think, heh, I could probably have 4. And by the time I've had 4, I'm more disinhibited, and I'll end up having 8. And by the time I've had 8, I might very well end up having 12, if I can afford it.
I think being over the top and saying even 1 drink is terribly horrible is only going to turn people off the message. It's ridiculous.
If you can turn 1 into 12, then it sounds like you're the precisely the person he's trying to reach. There's zero benefits to drinking alcohol, and we both know that.
Organic red wine has beneficial properties. Everything in moderation. Even the bible says drink to be merry not to be drunk.
No, not for an addict.
Sorry for your affliction that must be rough. Get born again and take authority over demonic oppression
I just mainly drink lager, or beer but always take a few sips of Brasso if im on a sesh. It polishes me me off lovely 😂
2 years without a drop. I know you can do it too. 😊
Its also so high proof. A little mild wine for a celebration is one thing but 100 proof vodka is intentional harm.
Thankyou🙏
I drank for tolerance of my life and family. I quit 7 years ago and learning to quit tolerating. I stay away from all of them ..they dont know the person i am today
.and dont care too they cant catergorize as they did before. Frunk and angry a lot of the time..frinking was my reward to me and finacally taking care of 5 people.. and i get the crumbs left over for myself...so i became honest with myself. And divorced after 17 years of marriage.
Eord to wise dont get married.until you are ready
Figure you out first and control your urges. Its s lifetime of confusion if you dont. I married at 21. Young and dumb a full of come face it thats it you got sucked into another ones 10:08 dream not yours because you didnt know yet ..what your dreams were
1 1/2 year of being sober!
If Nike made an anti-alcohol advertisement it would be "Just don t do it".