I started at 17. Drinking almost every weekend, a lot of the time too much, and ended it at 39. Drinking everyday after work a 6 pack or more of beer plus swigging vodka out of mickey’s I had hidden all around the house. Hangovers were a daily Thing. When they were really bad I would take a couple shots in the morning to get moving. I blacked out regularly I drove drunk all the time. I was very depressed, obese, anxiety ridden and sometimes had suicidal ideation. I wasted soo many years being selfish. When my first marriage collapsed I drank so I couldn’t feel. But instead I was an emotional mess. My kids saw alot of my drinking and I’m very ashamed of how I acted. I got sober January 1st 2019. I made it 1 year and a month. I thought I was fine. I thought I could drink like a regular person after proving I could so long without alcohol. but I was dead wrong. Within 1 week of the first drink I was hiding vodka all over the house again and blacking out. My last drink was March 6th 2020. I woke up late for work. I have no memory if my last night drinking. I showed up to work still very intoxicated. I sat in my car in tears. I couldn’t do this anymore. I hated myself. I knew I was going to die. I remembered this thing I heard in a recovery meeting about burning the ships. About not having anymore secrets. I came out to my bosses that morning. I told them the whole truth. I then told my fiancé everything as well. I’ve been sober for 2 years this March. It’s been hard but I love how I feel now. Even my worst days now are nothing compared to the self hate I used to spew at myself before. It’s possible to change. But you have to really be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

I remember being in my workout classes overhearing the Mom’s discussing going for drinks afterwards. I’d hear them laughing at the fact that their children would ask “mommy, why do you drink so much wine?” I knew I had an issue when I was googling “how to tell if you have a drinking problem” one of the first things I read was “if you have to ask, then you most likely do” I am 4 years sober now. Put myself in therapy. Alcohol is a sneaky little bastard.

The symptoms for my alcohol reduction,was feeling great ,more focussed ,more productive,way happier ,seeing my future more brightly ,looking healthier ,it has been very hard 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙋‍♂️😃

24 years and then...cold turkey. Now, 6yrs later I love being sober.

Recovering alcoholic here if it’s interrupting your daily life you need to stop.

When you regularly plan your life around alcohol, it’s a problem. When you make decisions based on alcohol, it’s a problem. I’m 6.5 years sober and was a really bad alcoholic. Being sober is just a better way to live. It’s a lot more work staying wasted than it is staying sober.

You work hard, you have a beer at the end of the day. A beer doesn’t mean “a beer” it means you get a glow going, get buzzed, get drunk because that’s what all those sayings mean. Just drink smart. You drink, you eat, you sleep. Just because you have a beer on weekdays doesn’t make you an alcoholic

Makes me tired, realized my problem when the days i dont drink i cant get off the couch. I am ready to get my life back.

You shouldn’t feel worried because your family gives you a lot of gift cards for the liquor store, you should be worried when they stop giving you gift cards for the liquor store.

If you need to control your drinking your drinking is out of control.

... When you tell yourself that you NEED a drink.

I’ve been an alcoholic for 17 years. It literally rules my life. I’ve been through ultra hell withdrawals too many times for most to understand. There is no “just a glass” for me. It’s always hard liquor for days on end to only end up in a shaking and sweating hell for days throwing up and crying. I’m too far gone. I know it will kill me.

I'm working on being sober

I quite drinking after 21 yrs straight with medication (naltrexone to totally take away cravings and Diazepam for withdrawals, for 3 weeks). It REALLY WORKED. I was so surprised and very happy. Honestly it was like magic. I haven't had a drink since the first pill. I keep extra for any crazy periods. I've had about 3 times I felt like drinking due to the routine of drinking when stressed, mad, tired. But I quickly take a Naltrxone and the urge is quickly totally gone in about 4-8 minutes. Let me know if you take the meds and if it also worked for you. I'm 2 months sober with not one drink.

Ok so look, I drink every day after work I work 12 hours I pay my bills I take care of my son and wife who’s going to school for nursing, I’ve never had a DUI in my life I have perfect attendance at work but my friends say I drink too much, I’m at the point I don’t care what they say as long as I’m handling my business

I can answer that without playing the video. It's time to worry when you drink every day, especially until you pass out or it affects people around you other than yourself. Are you going to work? Are you managing your money well? Do you eat much? Do you feel as though you cant wait until you get that first drink all the time? If any of these are agreeable, you probably have a problem. -- 11 year alcoholic here.

I crave wine in the mornings and I guess I drink about a bottle and a half a day. This just recently began.

GOD SAYS NO DRUNKENNESS. NO WINE. PERIOD.

The name of this channel is "The Doctors" Gimme a beer.

Addiction is a very serious issue. Unfortunately it is not taken seriously just because alcohol is legal, DOESN'T MEAN IT IS NOT A PROBLEM. if you are thinking about quitting, please get help, email me, anything. I understand addiction first hand. ❤

It's best just to put it down and forget it, opinion.

What a shame that getting care and asking for medical help isn’t a an option for those who have no health insurance or a doctor to talk to or a boss who would let you take the time off to save your life or a landlord who would be ok if rent was late.

So, maybe I'm in denial. Maybe, I'm not. I might drink excessively on the weekends, but don't touch a drop during the week. When I go out to dinner, I can drink a couple of beers and be done. Yet, on the weekends, at the house, I drink alone and put away an 18 pack a night. Do I have a problem?

My mother never raised a quitter.

I drink a lot, every night. And I have no consequences, no downside. That is, I've lost weight, I haven't had a hangover in decades, never had a DUI, have no issue with my family, have never been late or missed work, have no liver problems as shown by bloodwork, is not costing me an exorbitant amount of money (cheap vodka), feel a little slow in the morning but not much (wouldn't want to take a Calculus test), sleep better than when sober, don't think about alcohol during the day, able to quit the entire Sober January with no cravings, etc. All of society tells me I have a problem. But my problem is understanding how I have a problem. I enjoy watching a hockey game buzzed. I don't have all the answers. I'm exploring and trying to understand my relationship with alcohol.

I need help,and im scared.

...when a television M.D. tells me. Oh, no, wait...

I can’t take Dr Drew seriously after he went to meet Robert Paul Champagne.

If you watching this, you need to stop

I been drinking social drinking from 2021 November then started to drink big Smirnoff glass bottles every day from December to February then I started drinking 2 wines a day now I’m just fat

I just hate myself, and I use it to feel like I can love me.... I'm only here because i'm reaching out, I can't go to a doctor because it would change things

It turns my sister into a vicious monster who will weaponize her psychology degree. She is relentless and goes into some sort of psychosis on liquor specifically. We live together, I can't leave and she gets to the point she tortures me throughout the apartment. I don't know what to do. In her sober life, she displays full-on histrionics triangulates me by misrepresenting my behavior, character and reactions to her sinister tactics. She'll self harm when it's a full meltdown. I can't take it anymore. My family is disinterested even though I have a bunch of secret recordings and my mom has heard her screaming in the background. She said she doesn't need to hear it, huffed and puffed then said she'll call her. That made it worse and I had to take double my antidepressant and PTSD meds to knock myself out to sleep. I keep my bedroom locked. She enjoys the release, I can tell. She also hates when people sh¡t on alcoholism. Not alcoholics - the alcoholism itself. When not wasted, she's irritated, uninterested, negative and is always in histrionic mode. She's also a craft beer and liquor connoisseur and collects rare craft beers and trades them. She's also very greedy about her drink except when holding my flying monkey mother hostage - she'll feed her all this alcohol then the night winds up with her screaming down at my mom and mom trying to appease her. My mom is driving home drunk because she doesn't pass up a drink with my sister almost like she's doing it to get through the situation. She's fuking 29 btw. She also is CONSTANTLY HACKING into water bottles and it's so fuking disgusting. She's been doing it nonstop for like 3 years and it gets to the point she's just sitting there going *cough* *hack* *spit* *cough* *hack* *spit* just over and over like she's manic and unaware. Let her see you are noticing and she'll call you right out and talking about how she can't help it, all in a confrontational tone. She even throws up blood sometimes, doesn't care, doesn't tell the doctor. What can I possibly do? My MH already has me in survival mode and her alcoholism brings nothing but agony and despair to my life.

Yeah not that it easy

People that don't have alcohol problems don't sit around wondering if they do

Kinda feels weird getting info from people that havent experienced it.

If you think you may have a drinking problem, you probably do. Otherwise you wouldn’t be thinking about it.

Look that’s all well and great but at the end of the day working a shit job, you need that beer to numb the shit.

all I’m taking from this video is that I easily should’ve died when I quit cold turkey 😂 welp.. luckily I know this ain’t a path I’m going to go down again like that, but still.. dang.

drinking CORONA BEER @5:00 am.YUP! I NEED HELP, ASAP ...........BOOZING TO NUMB MY PAIN & DEPRESSION😢😭!!

Eating disorders with alcohol do not mix But doctors are yet to tell me to stop Wine is okay we are allegedly middle class Not every normal person is okay

If you are watching this video you should probably get sober

I need help

Bert Kreischer

My bf losing control he’s behind on his bills his mom died and he really drinking himself tbh she’s the reason he drunk out that bottle like he did she was a terrible mom

"if you can't control" This is such a stupid question. Those like me who have EXPERIENCED no control, know all about this.

the only problem I have with alcohol is when the colt 45 is empty

Lol don’t have 1 glass of wine, instead take a prescription drug daily for social anxiety…right🙄

The pandemic has sucked. It got me to drink everyday. I can’t go 3 days without drinking. I need to stop.

I’m being very honest in this comment. I can honestly say I drink a twelve pack of michelob ultras 3-4 times a week I get up go to work I am perfectly fine threw out each day. I can stop but I do have craving to drink I don’t hurt ppl or drive or have any shaking issues even if I decide to stop drinking for a week or two. Most ppl will say I’m an alcoholic but idk it’s just normal I started drink when I was 15 most ppl I’ve known drink hard core liquor and I can’t and I hate the bad hangout. Am I considered an Alcoholic?

When you have to drink alcohol in the morning to feel normal

Is Kati Morton in the audience??

The girl obviously drinks a lot XD

How many people did you hurt???

lol mommy wine culture?

That woman on thet panel and the women in the audience shown obviously do have a drinking problem that they just considered ok because its socially acceptable

I'm a 3rd generation drinker. Alcoholics run threw my family like crazy. We don't drink wine. We drink whiskey. I drink daily. 200ml daily to be exact. I do don't drive "my husband does". I am 35yo with 6 children under 11yo. I'd like to stop... but once my kids are in bed, this is my brain shut off.

Bruh if you drink ANY alcohol at all you SHOULD be worried

Huh, Watching this drunk Go figure

I see some who use the excuse that Jesus turned water into wine so they can drink all they want.

Everyone knows alcohol is evil...but many look the other way just because of GDP...same with cigarettes 🚬 tobacco etc

Read the book, “Easy Way To Control” you wont need to worry anymore and can quit happily with no withdrawal or any issues. Painless! It’s all an illlusion. If the doctors here, are lying to us. Go read the book

Weirdest drug seen on planet 😝😝😱

Jesus is the only one that overcame everything. Most of these people u r listening to have a trouble with money

Hey hun!!! Leave your husband alone on this

Love the advance but could somebody shut that parrot up!!!

First

We should all be worried that they have dr. Drew on their show. He is a hack. After his interview with Amber, and Ryan, he needs to go back to school and stop worrying about getting paychecks from anywhere he can.

Jesus is coming are you ready for him