Alcoholism video 1, My Journey begins...

[@lesleystocks5318]

I started watching your vids in 2017 & found them fascinating & helpful. I still to this day wonder how u are doing.

[@martin-wallace]

You're a brave man Glenn - My respect to you.

[@dcer]

I started drinking slow to get rid of social anxiety and after about a few years it turned into drinking alone in the evenings and then my morning started to feel really bad, so I started drinking in the mornings to get rid of the bad feelings..fast forward two more years and I was drinking every day from morning to evening. I was always drunk at work but nobody could tell i was drunk because you can't smell vodka and my tolerance was really high...at lunch time everyone would go to restaurant to eat and I would go to the liquor store to get my vodka refill... I was no longer having fun, I felt like shit, I would drink just to not to feel so shit. I went to rehab many times and it didn't help at all, the day I was out I would go drink again..eventually it got so bad I lost my job because I had a hard time moving or talking or eating, my body was getting very weak and I was shaking and sweating and just felt completely sick. One day I decided to quit cold turkey, it was the hardest thing to do in my life, it was late summer, I wrapped myself in a blanket, started to drink water and threw up for the next two days, then the throwing up stopped but the shaking remained and my mind was all over the place, I did not talk to a single person for like a month because I dind't have the patience. After about a month it started to slowly get better, I bought bike and started riding, my sleep got better, my pee turned clear...I did all that not because I wanted to quit but because I wanted alcohol to feel good when I needed it. So, should there be a really special time when I wanna drink, I want to feel drunk and good like I used to many years ago. This was a great learning experience for me. I have not had a drink in two years because I haven't been part of an occasion good enough for me to get drunk. I now need a reason to drink and there are no reasons.

[@afteralcoholism9110]

Wow that's a great journey my friend, well done buddy 😎👊🏻

[@kathryngannon485]

You should not stop cold turkey if you drink a lot.

[@boatymsboatface3929]

Great vid! Thank you

[@martyroberts951]

Hi Glenn! Good videos you have here

[@GregTKD100]

thank you

[@kristinanowakowski8532]

Mate, what do you think of non alcohol beers, I have started to take to so, it seems to help a bit. Any takes you have would be most helpful. Anyway good channel

[@afteralcoholism9110]

Thanks John, glad you like the channel. My take on alcohol free "drinks" is 'to each their own', but you have to decide for yourself why you want them--is it to"fit in"? (that's bollocks), personally don't pretend to drink alcohol... is it to "relax or unwind"? There are loads of ways to do that (meditation, exercise, hobbies, etc..) I was never a beer or wine drinker, my poison was whisky and coke, and I gave up coke with the whisky. All the best Mate.

[@kristinanowakowski8532]

Cheers, and look forward to watching your channel, I do know whisky, I myself used to drink with red lemonade, will try the things you said, cycling might be a good thing to take up

[@robertharrold4214]

BECKS BLUE IS HANDY

[@TerryEato]

4 years today for me and even now every day gets better

[@TerryEato]

Well done Glen keep on that road to recovery you deserve it!

[@weinerwagon6667]

I’m wondering where you are now? How’s life? It’s 2023 now. Good job every one for recognizing this poison is killing us!!!

[@Thatdudefresh]

Kind of sad but looks like he might have relapsed. This sickness is hard to beat. The poison seeps into your mind and body

[@lesleystocks5318]

He did a vid saying he was quitting you Tube cos he wasn’t doing well with it.. views/likes etc he moved to South Africa I think. He’s got a vid on it.

[@weinerwagon6667]

@@lesleystocks5318 thanks !

[@normanboyce41]

Drinking in the morning on my days off...all day Im so miserable and lonlely Wish it would just end! Wish I was never born.