Thank you so much

Excellent reaction video. Keep the faith and my the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit continue to lead you in your recovery. You and Tom both have powerful testimony to share. Keep on keeping it 💯! Thank you.

@@FlawdTV your whole story touches me man. Sounds a lot like my own battle and the bullshit i had to go through with my doctors...260mg of roxys a day, 8mg Xanax a day, Ativan, seroquel, they gave me a ton of shit to help my back pain and to sleep..i was told after being on that concoction for 12 years that I could go through a 2 year wein down to come off of them. I told my doctor I would never see him again and didn't. I wood cold turkey too and it nearly killed me. But that was worth never overdosing again.. to many friends lost, to many close calls myself. Hell, I just buried two childhood friends this weekend one Saturday and one yesterday Im tired of losing people to addiction. Toms song hits home hard and your reaction does too. The struggle is daily. Start strong and stay focused!

He is amazing

@@FlawdTV much respect brotha i related to pretty much everything you shared with us on this topic. im proud of you for making it this far, you have survived 100% of all experiences you have been through. congrats

65 and felt the same.

Fifty and yes emotionally drawn to give mama hugs. You are loved and YOU ARE MEANT TO BE HERE. You matter, you are important and you would be greatly missed. SO I AM SO PROUD OF YOU. And I know Mo is glad you are here babe. But so is HOG I love you!

How beaitiful and YES FLAWD I LOVE YOU AND FEEEELLL EVERYTHING SHE IS SAYING ....A MOMMA HUG....NO WORDS FOR THAT!....LOVE YA ALL TOO!!!

Bro caps lock

@@mattsnow4116 I KEEP THEM ON CAUSE I CANT SEE THE SMALL SO BRO BACK OFF

For real though lol. Too funny.

@@powerfan89 😂😂 longest couple of days ever

Thanks for the 📌 Flawd, we love you and are grateful Meaux came to check on you! Y'all are reaching souls, nothing surface level comes from y'all! 🧡

I was like 'Maybe he's on vacation or something. *stares out window* It'll come...'

Lol! Thank you! It did work! His reaction was one of the best!

In many songs Tom highlights his demonic/dark past. As you know, he's truly been through darkness that would terrify the average person.

Fallen angels here on earth. We all have our shadows and inner demons

Yup

I feel like Tom is showing his personal, internal struggle and for so many people it's relatable because we're all struggling with something. I struggled with exactly what he's talking about so I get that internal fight you have even years after you quit drugs/alcohol. It's a never ending struggle, some days more so than others.

Ya man

Sherry, John Keats addressed his emotions of a illness that led to his death in a letter written in the early 1800’s. It is, “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” Thank you for sharing, I feel enriched for reading your spiritual testimony and how you endured the emotional pain of your lost. Blessings to You. . . .dennis

AMEN Mom. 🙏 to you. I can't imagine the pain your are experiencing, but one thing I do know is that God's got you. ❤

Sorry to hear about your son and totally agree about pills. Only time i can say that pills are ok is for really serious pain after car accidents or antibiotics for serious infections...

@@dennis1954 I love that you quoted John Keats.. i visited his grave when I went to Rome back in 2001 💞

I think that everyone's pain is different and everyone needs different things to heal. Pills might work for some people along with therapy and lifestyle changes, but I agree that pills aren't the answer for most people.

It’s his girl 💯💜

Yesssss Sam!...if I may, I would also like to thank Mo 😁 thanks Mo! Thank God for all of you. My life has been in such a state for going on 5 years, Idk, its just nice, just to listen and read. Thank you again, you dont even know what youve done for me.

I've seen it about 10 times and man..this song makes me like hard cry...

Totally agree, only time i can say it's ok is in ER after accidents or antibiotics for life threatening infections...

You have options now! Chasing those things are NO way to live! ❤️

Prayed that God gives you strenght to overcome this. You don't have to fight it alone. Invited Him to be your partner in this fighting. Sooner or later you'll win and stay winning. God is never lose in any battle.

Lean into the fam bruv

That's exactly what it felt like.

​@@FlawdTV I had that happen to me for 2 days straight, while I was working a full-time job. After 48 hours, my body just started "buzzing," and I freaked out. Couldn't find an open liquor store at 5 in the morning, so i drove to my mom's house and woke her up raiding her house for wine or beer. NOT good times.

@Melanie Jordaan Hypnic jerk is a type of myoclonus. It's caused by the same muscles that cause hiccups.

@Melanie Jordaan you are correct.

I don't know where you got this from, but I'm stealing this!

Brooooooo

Cool! 👍

This comment deserves an award good sir. I laughed way too hard at that

Thanks guys lol

Id bet anything having family that supports him is invaluable, I'm grateful for people like you.

@@alexnope2223 we got through this as a family. Not all family members were there for him. I would never turn my back on my little brother no matter what. I was upset when he stole from me and other family but I was still there because l love him. That was just material stuff. It was hard but we got through it together.

Wow, good analogy

And the sad thing is, go visit a nursing home and you will find residents given Neurontin just to dumb them down so they do not bother the aids and nurses because the resident needs help to walk to the bathroom. My mom had serious intestinal surgery and went to the rehab unit in a nursing home and they did not want her to walk by herself to go to the rest room, yet they had her on diuretics which made her need help to pee. Since the nursing homes are understaffed I found out they put her on Neurontin to not bother them, so if I was not there, she just had to pee on herself! I started asking around to find out why she was doing crazy things and sleeping all the time, and one nurse admitted they added Neurontin to her meds, just like all the residents. I made sure I spent most of the day with her and followed her family doctors advice to GET HER OFF THAT CRAP! So when they tried to sneak it in her meds cup, we learned exactly which pill it was, and mom refused to take it, and she did so much better once she quit taking that crap. It makes me sick to think how many people that therapy center / nursing homes had and still has doped up.

Is that why I feel better but worse... God damn gabapentin got me messed up...

@@JayRahmann That is what my vet gave me to calm down my dogs during thunderstorms and before their appointments, it makes them into barely walking zombies, it does not seem like a great drug.

Same I have adhd my parents put me on Ritalin in the 90’s then took me off because I wasn’t my self. Haven’t took any meds for adhd sense. I’m now 31

Speaking from experience it is ultimately up to the addict to make a choice to strive for sobriety so in that sense you might be able the mind over matter perspective, but addiction is too complex to oversimplify it as mind over matter in every scenario. Addiction often involves physical and/or psychological dependence which makes it nearly impossible for many to stop without help, so in that case it takes more than just mind over matter. In many cases a person will find that a desire to stop using won't lead to sobriety if they don't experience medical detox or mental health treatment when the function of their addiction is to self-medicate mental health problems rather than just a function of a desire to get high for pleasure.

Tom has a hard way of holding a mirror up so we have to see ourselves, I personally think he has us in mind for just that reason, like damn Tom, how you got me in my feelings bro

Good for you, thoughts and prayers.

Try melatonin for sleeping. Non addictive and great for falling asleep. 5 or 10 milligrams and gnight!

@@BBJProductions21 Cheers mate, after the 2 first nights of horrible sleep I'm actually quite ok, yesterday I went to bed around 10:30, slept til 6 and only woke up once. I have started to take vitamins and specially B12 as a mate who went through this years ago told me that prolonged alcohol use inhibits vitamin uptake, so trying to boost that. But what actually surprised me the most is that I feel good. Better than in years. Sure, there are moments in the evening I go, fuck it would be nice with a cold one, but nah, not falling into that trap. (+ coming to the realisation quitting alcohol during a heatwave may not have been the smartest idea, I should have come to this awakening in December... :D )

@@bobfleming7665 Thanks a million.

Damn that's terrible. I'm glad you made it thru to the other side bruv

True

Yup cause it's a tranquilizer. I was on it for like a year and it messed up my head and I gained a bunch of weight and it slowed everything down. If you see my comment I said that people would literally ask me why I was talking so slow but I thought I was talking normal. It was scary. Like why are you saying I'm talking slow?

Yep it's crazy. They just give u anything so they don't need to deal with you.

They wouldn't hand out Seroquel in the jail I was in because it's too expensive instead they gave out trazodone like candy

@@IanMM88 it's weird Seroquel has always worked for me except I don't like the weight gain. I have used Seroquel for insomnia since I was 11

@@tatertot4208 probably because you need it or it works for you. I had anxiety and depression and they put me on that and remeron and trasadone and the other stuff was fine but the seroquel was no good for me.