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I was placed on Naltrexone for alcohol use disorder about 4 months ago now, and can honestly say it changed my life. I can still drink socially, but the compulsion and craving to _keep_ drinking is gone. I don't drink at home, my school and work performance has improved immensely, and I'm overall just a happier person. I thought (working in an emergency department) that I didn't have a problem for the longest time; after all, I treat people who drink a handle a day. But I figured it out eventually. I'm so glad you're doing well Finn. It's a long, tough road to recovery, and maintaining sobriety is a lifelong challenge.
Every addict must find their own path of Recovery. I am so happy that you take your alcoholism very seriously. CONGRATULATIONS on 11 years sober today. Love you Finn. And yes my puppy is named Finn after you. Much love friend.
Thank you for this Finn. I have struggled in the past with alcohol and drugs and found that the company that I kept lead me down the wayward path. My partner and close support network now are 100% supportive and without her and my amazing friends I certainly wouldn’t be here today to tell my tale. Hope your looking after Britain’s ocean city while I’m away in Manchester 😊
@@FinnTheInfinncible it’s a hard decision to make but to move forward you have to get rid of the heavy baggage and let go. I really wish my trip was for pleasure, my mum has Alzheimer’s and isn’t doing too great, will be returning home soon, though I will be doing a lot of tooing and froing up and down the country very shortly. Hope you enjoyed the fireworks 🎆
Bless you, Finn! Thank you for making such an honest and open video about these experiences. I've never heard of addiction as an allergy and it makes a *lot* of sense. Major congratulations and BIG HUGS for your eleven years!! xx
Well done mr finn you have done amazing ❤❤❤❤ totally understand you keeping the title of alcoholic makes complete sense much love to you and furrfurr xx
Thank you for sharing! It's hard to find trans people willing to talk about recovery, so thank you for doing so. I just had my one year of sobriety on 7/18, got a tattoo to commemorate 😁
Congratulations! Thats amazing my friend! And yes, I think so often, trans people fear talking about any sruggles, mental health, addiction, etc in case transition options are removed, or they are judged as not fit to transtion etc. It concerning, because its understandable that we struggle with these things and talking openly about them, getting heko for them, is healthy! What tattoo did you get?
@@FinnTheInfinncible Thank you! 😊 I didn't think of that, the fact that discussing struggles could compromise someone's transition. That really sucks, especially since talking about things probably helps with mental health. 😕 My tattoo is my one year sobriety date in roman numerals. To remind myself that if I can make it a year, I can make it another 💪🏻😎
I can understand you, absolutely. Some things, we are or were addicted gave us a pleasure, a relaxing time, an apparently way to escape.from sadness, at the beginning but it’s so easy to go over the limit. I admire you for you constance, for the sacrifice to say NO, even the temptetion is always here, close. Keep on in this way, we can find other pleasures, am I right?😉
I am soo happy for you!! It s good to remember what we shouldn t do, because sometimes we forget... I am soo proud of you, you evolved into an amazing guy! And humble... Humillity brings people further... The Lord likes and guides humble people... I love you soo much! ❤️❤️❤️😍🌷😁
Congrats on the 11 year (I think you said 😅) sober. While preparing myself for my gastric I had to come to terms with the fact that I have a food addiction. What really sucks about that is you can just stop eating. Well, you can, but it's not recommended. 😆 All joking aside... Between food addiction, depression, and always being hungry before I had my gastric bypass, on top of genetic stuff that helped pack on the pounds, it was all a perfect recipe for morbid obesity. Thankfully the weight loss surgery has helped battle some of those issues. Keeping the food addiction in check is the hardest part. I've gotten better at saying I can't have certain foods in the house because no matter how much I know I should eat it and it's Nova's snacks, I will still eat them. A perfect example is a box of frosted sugar cookies we got from Walmart for a gathering and the gathering was cancelled so we had the whole box. I told myself if I have only one a day, at most, I'd be fine. Before I realized it I'd eaten 4 and I felt soooo is. I told Nova to take the rest to work to give to her co-worker's because I knew I'd eat more even though I had made myself sick on them. It's not the same thing, but it gives me an idea of what having other addictions must be like.
Brilliant videos and always! the fact nowadays we have 00 do you think as a person who is an and that if you drink that 00 do you think that's a bad drive for people who are in recovery from
Just my opinion but non-alcoholic beer is for non-alcoholics. Why tempt something which could potentially put your sobriety at risk? 🤷♀️ Alcoholism is cunning, baffling and powerful. One minute it’s a 0.0 and the next, it’s the real thing.
@cody it's a great question. I've always avoided alcohol free, because for.me that feels like it isnt recovery if l am still needing to drink something labelled as beer. Besides, l never drank for the enjoyment of the taste, I juat drank to get drunk! So l would worry that drinking alcohol free would just keep alcohol in my mind and soon I'd be back on the real stuff. I think this is a great topic for a video too!
@@FinnTheInfinncible That is interesting and the reason why I asked it just came to mind! take smoking and alcohol, I know there two completely different things but here me out both can cause addiction. for someone to reduce or give up smoking usually they go onto vapes and vapes have different levels of nicotine from high all the way down to 0, I feel like after someone graduates down to 0 that person may not be smoking again because vapes do come in different flavours but with alcohol you have to decrease your intake slowly just like smoking but then there is 00 Heineken and other beers and drinks but it kinda stands to be the fact they have 00 will drive someone who was/is addicted to alcohol back into the old rhythm because it tastes the same I know in not all people the go by taste.its just something im super interested in cause I did alcohol and binge drinking in college as part as an assignment so here is me thinking that 00 can actually be a really bad thing. sorry this was so long but literally is my Train of thought with this topic
This is a very very good question! I think I shall do a whole video on this at some point. I rarely get a craving, but it can sometimes make me feel uncomfortable when people drink around me. It depends on the situation. Chris having a bottle of wine at home is OK. But being with him at a pub/party where he is drunk, is often too much for me.
It happened to me with being addicted to the idea or illusion that I am just a normal woman, without transgender past... I thought, this is great, that is great, yet, I have transgender past... If I am with a guy who is transfobic(it happens a lot), yet he doesn t know you changed... That s not the right guy for me... It took me lots of headaches to understand that, no matter how normal I look, I am or should be allergic to guys who would totally not love me if they knew of my past... And is hard to come from the seventh heaven... Oh, yes, I am so pretty blabla... Like alcohol, that guy is toxic for me... Run... Wow, thanks😁🙋♀️🌷
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I've been sober for 3 years and I try very hard not to go back to alchohol, I've been a lot better since I've been off alchohol
I so pleased to hear this, well done! Keep.on keeping on my friend!
Congratulations on your 3 years!! 🎂
nice job
I was placed on Naltrexone for alcohol use disorder about 4 months ago now, and can honestly say it changed my life. I can still drink socially, but the compulsion and craving to _keep_ drinking is gone. I don't drink at home, my school and work performance has improved immensely, and I'm overall just a happier person. I thought (working in an emergency department) that I didn't have a problem for the longest time; after all, I treat people who drink a handle a day. But I figured it out eventually.
I'm so glad you're doing well Finn. It's a long, tough road to recovery, and maintaining sobriety is a lifelong challenge.
It is indeed my friend. I am so pleased to hear your success story!
Congrats on 11 years. I got clean/sober a very long time ago and I've said for years that I have a disease of MORE
Oh yes l can relate to that! Congrats on tour sobriety too!
10 years sober in AA here. I’m blessed to be staying sober with you.
Amazing!!!!!! Congratulations! Sober life is the best life!
Congratulations Finn!!!! Sending you much love from Canada. 16 years here! 🙋♀️ Like the cliche goes… it works if you work it. ♥️
Absolutely! And thank you! Much love winging it's way back to you!
Every addict must find their own path of Recovery. I am so happy that you take your alcoholism very seriously.
CONGRATULATIONS on 11 years sober today. Love you Finn. And yes my puppy is named Finn after you. Much love friend.
I love that you have a puppy called Finn! And you are very right, each path is unique to each of us!. Love you too!
😁🌷
Thank you for this Finn. I have struggled in the past with alcohol and drugs and found that the company that I kept lead me down the wayward path.
My partner and close support network now are 100% supportive and without her and my amazing friends I certainly wouldn’t be here today to tell my tale. Hope your looking after Britain’s ocean city while I’m away in Manchester 😊
Ah yes this is so important, we unfortunately have to walk away from those who dont support our recovery. Have a great time in Manchester!
@@FinnTheInfinncible it’s a hard decision to make but to move forward you have to get rid of the heavy baggage and let go.
I really wish my trip was for pleasure, my mum has Alzheimer’s and isn’t doing too great, will be returning home soon, though I will be doing a lot of tooing and froing up and down the country very shortly. Hope you enjoyed the fireworks 🎆
Bless you, Finn! Thank you for making such an honest and open video about these experiences. I've never heard of addiction as an allergy and it makes a *lot* of sense. Major congratulations and BIG HUGS for your eleven years!! xx
Thank you! Yes, the allergy analogy has always really helped me. Thank goodness for recovery!
Congratulations on achieving 11 years alcohol free. Thank you for your honesty and sharing your experiences. xx
Thank you so much! And thank you for watching!
Well done mr finn you have done amazing ❤❤❤❤ totally understand you keeping the title of alcoholic makes complete sense much love to you and furrfurr xx
I am glad it makes sense! Much love to you from us!
Thank you for sharing! It's hard to find trans people willing to talk about recovery, so thank you for doing so.
I just had my one year of sobriety on 7/18, got a tattoo to commemorate 😁
Congratulations! Thats amazing my friend! And yes, I think so often, trans people fear talking about any sruggles, mental health, addiction, etc in case transition options are removed, or they are judged as not fit to transtion etc. It concerning, because its understandable that we struggle with these things and talking openly about them, getting heko for them, is healthy! What tattoo did you get?
@@FinnTheInfinncible Thank you! 😊
I didn't think of that, the fact that discussing struggles could compromise someone's transition. That really sucks, especially since talking about things probably helps with mental health. 😕
My tattoo is my one year sobriety date in roman numerals. To remind myself that if I can make it a year, I can make it another 💪🏻😎
Great video Finn and congratulations on your ongoing recovery 👍☺️
Thank you so much!
Well done,it is a terrible Illness,killed my dad aged 47. Stay Strong, once an alcoholic always an alcoholic, so AA told us as a family xx
I can understand you, absolutely.
Some things, we are or were addicted gave us a pleasure, a relaxing time, an apparently way to escape.from sadness, at the beginning but it’s so easy to go over the limit.
I admire you for you constance, for the sacrifice to say NO, even the temptetion is always here, close.
Keep on in this way, we can find other pleasures, am I right?😉
So, so proud of you!!
That means the world, thank you so much!
Hey, Finn. I’m not quite there yet but hope to be in the future. Alcohol is a legal and lethal drug and I’m so glad you got out of that chokehold.
Thank you, its a tough one to beat, but one day at a time, its possible! Much love and strength to you!
I am soo happy for you!! It s good to remember what we shouldn t do, because sometimes we forget... I am soo proud of you, you evolved into an amazing guy! And humble... Humillity brings people further... The Lord likes and guides humble people...
I love you soo much! ❤️❤️❤️😍🌷😁
What an absolutely lovely comment, thank you so very much!
You're amazing! I'm coming up on 5 years🙃
Woohoo! Congratulations! We are both amazing!
Great video!
Thanks so much!
Congrats on the 11 year (I think you said 😅) sober. While preparing myself for my gastric I had to come to terms with the fact that I have a food addiction. What really sucks about that is you can just stop eating. Well, you can, but it's not recommended. 😆 All joking aside... Between food addiction, depression, and always being hungry before I had my gastric bypass, on top of genetic stuff that helped pack on the pounds, it was all a perfect recipe for morbid obesity. Thankfully the weight loss surgery has helped battle some of those issues. Keeping the food addiction in check is the hardest part. I've gotten better at saying I can't have certain foods in the house because no matter how much I know I should eat it and it's Nova's snacks, I will still eat them. A perfect example is a box of frosted sugar cookies we got from Walmart for a gathering and the gathering was cancelled so we had the whole box. I told myself if I have only one a day, at most, I'd be fine. Before I realized it I'd eaten 4 and I felt soooo is. I told Nova to take the rest to work to give to her co-worker's because I knew I'd eat more even though I had made myself sick on them. It's not the same thing, but it gives me an idea of what having other addictions must be like.
Brilliant videos and always! the fact nowadays we have 00 do you think as a person who is an and that if you drink that 00 do you think that's a bad drive for people who are in recovery from
Just my opinion but non-alcoholic beer is for non-alcoholics. Why tempt something which could potentially put your sobriety at risk? 🤷♀️ Alcoholism is cunning, baffling and powerful. One minute it’s a 0.0 and the next, it’s the real thing.
@cody it's a great question. I've always avoided alcohol free, because for.me that feels like it isnt recovery if l am still needing to drink something labelled as beer. Besides, l never drank for the enjoyment of the taste, I juat drank to get drunk! So l would worry that drinking alcohol free would just keep alcohol in my mind and soon I'd be back on the real stuff. I think this is a great topic for a video too!
@@FinnTheInfinncible That is interesting and the reason why I asked it just came to mind! take smoking and alcohol, I know there two completely different things but here me out both can cause addiction. for someone to reduce or give up smoking usually they go onto vapes and vapes have different levels of nicotine from high all the way down to 0, I feel like after someone graduates down to 0 that person may not be smoking again because vapes do come in different flavours but with alcohol you have to decrease your intake slowly just like smoking but then there is 00 Heineken and other beers and drinks but it kinda stands to be the fact they have 00 will drive someone who was/is addicted to alcohol back into the old rhythm because it tastes the same I know in not all people the go by taste.its just something im super interested in cause I did alcohol and binge drinking in college as part as an assignment so here is me thinking that 00 can actually be a really bad thing. sorry this was so long but literally is my Train of thought with this topic
Hey finn awsome video as always very informative , does it bother u when u see chris having a drink does it make u have a craving?
This is a very very good question! I think I shall do a whole video on this at some point. I rarely get a craving, but it can sometimes make me feel uncomfortable when people drink around me. It depends on the situation. Chris having a bottle of wine at home is OK. But being with him at a pub/party where he is drunk, is often too much for me.
@@FinnTheInfinncible thankyou for answering my question , look forward to a video on the subject
It happened to me with being addicted to the idea or illusion that I am just a normal woman, without transgender past... I thought, this is great, that is great, yet, I have transgender past... If I am with a guy who is transfobic(it happens a lot), yet he doesn t know you changed... That s not the right guy for me... It took me lots of headaches to understand that, no matter how normal I look, I am or should be allergic to guys who would totally not love me if they knew of my past... And is hard to come from the seventh heaven... Oh, yes, I am so pretty blabla... Like alcohol, that guy is toxic for me... Run... Wow, thanks😁🙋♀️🌷