Keep up the good work

Sounds like you skipped some steps 4 and 5 trauma and self will is a killer. The serenity prayer is a tool if you are honest with yourself.

Let go and let God brother. Don't complicate the process. You get up work do AA. God knows who you are . Change people and places and do alot of AA.

Such a canadian accent

Awesome I am so happy for you to be sober. You just helped me so much

Holy shit, your story reminds me of when I was at my worst. Well done getting sober my man 🤗

Your words ring true about we’re not seen by others the way we want to be seen and that’s okay.its just good to be seen and be sober. Healthy or sober brings in contentment and happiness. At least for myself it does. Being aware and alive is real. It isn’t difficult to understand that and when I am sober thing just are the way their supposed to be.

The first drink makes all the other decisions for you

But Democrats now say you CAN deny you're a man!! lol .... that party is disgusting.

It's not so bad after the first 2 weeks

The Sober Empire Dude!! Bro I loved your videos!! Please dude make more of that kind of content like those Sober Empire videos 😁🤙

I can't stop, I cannot take the withdrawal and the pain of dealing with my life! UK

Damn true words spoken 💯

When you stop fighting and you surrender is when the real recovery, the real healing, starts. I have been "fighting" this thing called alcoholism/ addiction for all of my teenage and adult life. I've stopped fighting. I've accepted that what I am and I've surrendered. I wqs given the gift of ddesperation. Sounds like a shitty gift but it is truly a blessing in disguise. One day at a time I refuse to let my alcoholism control my life anymore. I am free.

Well done sir for staying sober and for your analysis.

This video sounds a lot like my BPD therapy. It's all connected

We've never met, but I am proud of you! Keep it up! You're worth it!

I have a problem : Since I stopped, 18 months ago, I view my drinker-acquaintances with a sense of pity and superiority, that I try to hide ...

Sometimes, I think it is like a form of possession. Like an autopilot with somebody else driving. I want to drive now. You are a long time dead. 160-odd days now. Loving it. Hold it down bro.

17 days 19 hrs

Excellent video!!

Tasted like skunk rofl . Let's face it beer is Wessels piss .Ever noticed how a Ginger Beer taste a 1000 times better . I'm on this filtered lemon water buzz at the moment it's fcking awesome lol . The worst thing about drinking is the actions you take whilst shit faced . The feeling of shame and guilt it creates is the worst feeling and people you care about you around you start hating on you . I started smoking weed at high school , it was terrible . I could remember shit or learn fck all . And my teaches started to noticed how shit I was doing . My friends a pisshead and has this sick as 440 horse power lexus , I don't think it makes him happy . He still drinks like a fish . The reality is no amount of booze or drugs is going to fix our issues . I'm can't say I'm free from the chains of my addiction , but sure am starting think twice about it more . I think learning to be just happy without just yourself is the hardest thing in the world . I think many people out there can agree with me on that . I often drink when I'm bored of whatever I'm doing . I guess you could just take a cold shower every time you feel like a drink . Like some sort of torture to reinforce why I shouldn't drink lol . So maybe just maybe subconsciously it turns me off . Sure wouldn't want to hit the cold shower this time of year , it's fcking cold as here in New Zealand . Happy for you man , drugs and booze are nasty shit . Hard drugs are no joke . I put my gf off meth I was that annoying . Haven't touched it since . Exercise helps heaps I find . Better to be addicted to healthy things .

I always been tall and puberty give me muscles. I still dealt with drug addiction later on in life.

appreciate you being honest about your story..I'm working through similar issues as well

You have great insight, subbed.

Very good, your a smart guy, i relate so much with you. Thanks

Amazing story. Thank you for sharing

So proud of you man. Well done ❤️ my fight is with opiates (pain pills not heroin) but even after getting sober for ages I can honestly say the thing that bothers me or freaks me out is I’m terrified to be a sober person , even now it’s like I was under the influence so long I don’t know who the real me is , I was 16 when I started and got sober at 32 but I lost my whole twenties , I just don’t feel like I know who I really am if that makes sense

People talk about can I have one drink? For me it's I can't even have one sip. One sip hits me in a way where I don't know where I'll be tomorrow. Could be home safe. Could be never to be seen again. It's really that simple.

It is easier to change your association with alcohol . Think of it this way : Even after you quit , those strong urges will surface from time to time just to test your willpower .. However, human willpower has it's limitations .. If you don't change your association with alcohol those urges will keep surfacing and you will eventually give in and go back to the old same patterns all over again. However, if you work on changing your association with alcohol then the urges will eventually dissipate and you won't have to keep using your willpower to resist having that first drink again ..In fact, you will never want to have any drink without using any willpower.. Think of something in your life that you absolutely despise . It could be anything, some food, drugs, anything. You need to put alcohol under the same category in your mind. You need to change the association , for example, next time when you have a strong urge to drink, instead of imagining how great it would feel right now to open a cold can of beer and just chug it , think of an empty beer glass that has been left on the table for two days, think of all the foams kind of stuck to the glass and the nasty smell coming out of the glass .. Or next time you have a strong urge to have that martini think of the old day when you woke up in the middle of the night after sleeping on the living room carpet sleeping in your own vomit ...When the urge comes, not just think about those nasty associations but try to bring feelings to it , in a matter of minutes, the urges will vanish ..

Before and after pics are remarkable. Alcohol is evil.

Very low self esteem as a kid with brutal social anxiety. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s and back then not much help. I self medicated with alcohol and drugs. It was rough but I thought I was the only weird one.

I’m on day one and know this is over. These withdrawals sucks. Sweating , stomach ache Nassaues. Never want to feel like this again

Man I’m just like you. Bought the beamer, got an arm sleeve. Blew and engagement and now just blew another relationship. She accepted my problem, but it’s because of my lying and nasty mouth when I drink. Enough is enough, I made the decision to change. Wish me luck. Taking this as a blessing

loooove this - coming on 1 year on June 30th. So effortlessly honest. And when we can get to that place - that is freedom for me.

When one cannot accept themselves or the abuse from the world or their bad decisions and unguidance. It is so available I never heard it that way before. Like many I started with weed and became dependent. I grew up around extreme alcoholics and a very sad childhood

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Thank you, new subscriber here

I went to my doctor to discuss my alcohol cravings and difficulty trying to abstain from drinking. I was given a prescription for naltrexone and followed the Sinclair method. Lost all cravings for alcohol after 6 weeks. Surprisingly simple!

Thanks for your video and sharing your story. I could really relate. Thank you!

I miss watching videos like this and not every one being a semi documentary with so much edits.

Progression not perfection. That was an important phrase that I needed to hear, among others.

Congratulations on your new journey! I’m at 8 months sober and I feel much better. lol love the end with the bag of chips!

Took me until 70 to realize I had a problem, when I finished up hospitalized and in a wheelchair. I had to hit rock bottom, lost everything, I was in such a bad place - it was quit or die. Sober now 6yrs - alcohol is a very sinister drug. David, you are a good guy - well done - you caught it early.👍

It shouldn't be a fight. You either recover or you don't. Instead of being a slave to your addiction you become a slave to your sobriety. Do some research on rational recovery and Jack Trimpey to learn more if you'd like. It guided me to save my own life.

The fear of success is always a greater hindrance than the fear of failure.

The background looks like alberta! thanks for the insight man. I am almost one month clean from ❄

I am not getting why that doctor kept you on Valium for that long and used it as a way to treat anxiety disorder on a regular basis not even as a PRN and efficient and much more healthy and helpful way. I’m treating panic disorder.

You was having big anxiety attacks, and you were treating those anxiety and panic attacks with the booze

I’m not understanding how a 24-year-old has enough money or enough credit to buy an $80,000 car must not have been paying rent or something