Very helpful ❤

I crave soda now that I’m sober. I recently switched to Coke Zero mini cans, they don’t have calories or sugar and they taste the same. One of those every other day is my little treat to keep me going

you back on the suds mate ?

I need to connect you i esd help

Any women here? I’m 2 days sober, I have a 10 month old (sober during pregnancy, went right back after birth). My alcohol addiction has turned into a gambling addiction, only present when I’m drunk. I know I have to tackle this before I can tackle the gambling. Any words of wisdom out there?

5 weeks, no alcohol with little or no sleep....I went back to alcohol 😢

Stop listening to overweight idiots just eat right stay away from alcohol and exercise it’s that simple

I love alchool❤❤❤

Awesome !!!!

It's so hard.. I have done 4 years.. 4months.. 4 weeks! I am tired of it. It has NEVER stopped being difficult.. and I dug deep but after 4 years and one bad moment I was hooked again! I so wish I hadn't got this problem. It is so depressing, destroying and I hate it. I wish I was a human being. Your videos are good and helpful but I just don't have any faith in myself anymore. Ps. I am 100% honest about myself...and quiting is great but alcohol is my VERY UGLY freind

I remember a advert in the 90s. Telling us its safe to drink 2pints a night

Just think what smoking dose to us on top of drinking

My nerves are really messed up after just 8 days no alcohol.

Alcohol Also robs the body of b vitamins which helps prevent nerve damage thats why GP prescribes thiamine to alcoholics for their bodies to absorb it easier due to inflammation in the stomach. Alcohol is poison

It can trigger depression and anxiety

Waiting for hair to grow back love it 😂

You had exactly what I had mine started 18 bouts of depression anxiety.

Can alcohol trigger depression and anxiety

I stayed quit for about seven months and just fell off the wagon this month. I want this to be my last day to drink. I am going to hate the shakes, racing heartbeat and hallucinations, but I have to do it.

how do you stop when you are in a relationship with someone that does drink. How do you be around it and still say no?

See i get health anxiety the next day freaking out about how fast my heart is and wierd headaches i go to the er and they keep me there give me IV fluids and send me home

Im addicted to the buzz that the first drink gives you, and I feel like I have to keep it all day untill I go to sleep at night. I get anxiety and nausea feeling sick tired and depressed when I quit. Any recomendations on how to overcome this faster?

taking valium 20 mg and drinking, what should i do? 2 bottles of sherry a day, for 26 years

First drink at 8. Progressively more until now. Age 53. Gonna go for the full stop. I know it's effecting me and my wife. Very disciplined and I haven't been. Time to apply the discipline!!

Excellent information. I really enjoyed this.

I can't stop i feel so awful when im not drinking i think about it when i wake up!! Hopefully i found you and god will give me the strength to stop! Thank you for channel!!❤ lol

I can't stop i feel so awful when im not drinking i think about it when i wake up!! Hopefully i found you and god will give me the strength to stop! Thank you for channel!!❤

Awesome channel

I started drinking since my teenage, got addicted to alcohol. 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.

35 days sober

Day 6 lost 10 pounds 👌🏽

It's the bit between the end of Sober Spring and the next Dry January that I struggle with. Everything is front-loaded at the start of the year. No big push leading up to Christmas. Okay, so there's "Stoptober" but that's not on the "Try Dry" app. Yes, I could set my own goals but I could do with it being "official". I did six months sober, but I'm struggling right now.

Withdrawal dreams are a vision of fear and hell.. They even come at you when you are half awake/semi conscious. I am reducing again but I'm afraid to sleep and walk into the nightmare. I lay down and know that hell is waiting. Towel over the pillow for the sweat, Berrocca for the vitamins and try to chug as much water as I can. It's a horrible condition and unless you have experienced it, you can't describe how bad it is. I keep quitting and will keep quitting until it's done or I am. My heartfelt hopes to all of you who are struggling with the demon.

I'm so glad I found this video because I actually have been noticing that for a little while now. See I don't have a traditional drinking problem that is to say that yeah I drink a lot but no one around me actually has a problem with it even though most of them don't drink and it's because I don't get on the phone and start yelling at people or I don't get into trouble or anything I'm visually impaired so I can't drive anyway even if I wasn't drunk so there is no downside to me having a few beers but everyday after I drink I feel bad about myself and I won't let myself play games or have any fun the next day because I feel like I'm doing something wrong if I do. The contrast of it is okay to drink versus the next day where I keep telling myself yeah it's okay to drink but now you aren't allowed to have any fun the next day because you drank the day before it's like I'm paying penance for something. This happens to me 95% of the time after I drink.

Okay guys I don't know what my condition is called yet, i used to be happy, creative, optimistic, smart and funny girl, then i had an incident with marijuana vape from a classmate back then(I didn't know it was a vape woth marijuana) anyway I'm 19, i had a bad trip okay, but then my friends started to leave my pets died and everything went to sh*t like i was half awake, no one listened i lost people i loved, but that's not my issues now, i had dpdr and health anxiety about 5 months ago, i Felt every symptom even went to doctors 7 times for check and blood work, all came up clear, i used to do anything just to keep me going and distracted, i climbed mountains (literally i do have a mountain near my house) i ate well drinked lots of water, meditated, socialized, i do have great relationship with my family, and i do have frieds, i droped school because of toxic environment and found a job, I'm not happy with that job.. so I'm about to get another one But these day for about 2 or 3 months, i feel like I'm being just numb, no emotions, no creativity, no motivation, no energy, everything is falling apart, i don't have health Anxiety anymore, just depression and i drink everyday just to feel something, just to know who i am, and im tired i was on therapy 3x and my therapist said im burned out, but is that right? im not sure.. im about to get meds worh suport of my mom, i hope it'll work, cuz i don't even have the energy to claimb mountains anymore, i don't have energy to do anything, i feel like I'm useless and like I'm not even here... But i used to be someone i helped lot of people out, i had dreams and future, what is this life??

I am going on 7 weeks without a drink. No withdrawal symptoms. When my pain medication was cut almost in half, I began to drink, not to get drunk, but to ease the bone pain. Drank for 8 years at home. It affected my balance, after a fall with several broken bones, it was time to quit. Problem is deep depression. I am retired, 74 years old. I hope my apatite for food returns and the joy of living comes back someday. I know this is chemical, but it feels horrid.

I want to stop, but living alone makes it so much harder!

I've been drinking for 26 years😢 It feels like a prison with a hidden door. I'm glad so many have found it. I wish I could too.

Left out another giant reason why to quit. If quit alcohol for good it’s impossible to get a DWI! I don’t know about the U.K., but a DWI in USA most states it’s forever on your record. After a night in jail you lose your license for 6 months and can cause job loss if boss finds out. Then you’re out $10,000 from lawyer fees because without a lawyer a DWI can cost you $15,000. Then factor job loss that can cost thousands ($) more. Ohhhh and your driver insurance rates triple! There is nothing good about alcohol!

Niacin b3 flush helps, thiamine too❤

I've been sober for 15 days today after 40 years of it. Overall, I feel good and sleep much better, but every day I get a headache and fatigue thats hard to overcome! It goes away after a few hours but it's tough! I know just having a glass of wine would stop it. But I haven't given in to that. Thanks for any thoughts and God Bless!

Two weeks in. I’m noticing reduced anxiety but increased depression.

Day 12. It’s hitting hard.

I never had a drinking problem but I decided to live by 0 alcohol for becoming a better singer and dancer... Also my parents drank and I am happy to be far from that today. I work as a musician and I usually get drinks for free when I perform. So I thought never drinking again would just delete a risk from my life (not only to become adicted to drinking, but also as being a woman to be unsafe in an atmosphere where people are drunk.). It's 5 years now and I live a healthy life singing and dancing. But I fell in love with a musician who is a really great guy and at the beginning he didn't drink after our concerts or when we went out, because of me. Now he drinks sometimes and sais that I should get used to it. He is not drinking much (about 4 glases of wine). He becomes only a little bit more funny and silly when he drinks. Not violent or abusive. But not as smart and charming as usually. We are both in our 30tees... I really feel unconfortable whe he drinks. I don't want to get used to it. I really love him, he is not an alcoholic (yet). But I want to focus on other things in my life. I often feel like I am intolerant... And that I shouldn't be so strict. Because he doesn't treat me bad when he drinks and he drinks in my presence maybe once or twice a month. Right now I try to lead with example by leaving when he drinks. I don't know if this is a good way or if I should stay arround? I told him that I love him smart and clearminded as he can be... And that I will go to sleep when I feel sorrounded by drunk people including him. Any one has Ideas how I could do better?

For me it was sleepless night for 3 weeks but now i dont even think about alcohol, im back to chasing my long term goals. Man up !

What happens in lesson #1 when you can’t come up with a good reason why? I don’t have a strong reason why. My Dr. TOLD me to stop. Is that a strong reason? If I don’t quit, I won’t probably last another 5 years. My family will collect a significant life insurance policy to ensure their future. If quit and last more than 5 years......they get nothing and will be financially destitute.

Short answer: yes, no excuses for drinking

Over 1 year sober today, thanks Simon, your videos have really helped allot!!

The most important thing, and rewarding are extremely difficult, but worth the struggle.

You are saying people that are drinking 2-3 bottles of wine per day should stop drinking any alcohol overnight?. Is it not very dangerous for your body if you suddenly go from that to zero alcohol? I would have thought a period of reduction before going fully sober is way more sensible?