Been through it lad, I started drinking when I was aged 16, worked at a local brewery. Obviously it was fun at the start. And it gave me confidence. I drank up till I reached the age of 50. Had a rough time ( and some good times) Been off it completely for almost 25 years now. Lost a lot of Good friends over the years. Drink ruined my life. I'll be back, go into more detail in the future, Best wishes to everyone having similar problems and good luck for the future.
When I was nursing in Saudi in the 80s there were more heavy drinkers than I knew here. It was such an artificial culture for ex pats that for some reason the social life was alcohol based. Bearing in mind alcohol was illegal so it was home brew and home stilled. Everyone I knew has a booze stash and the spirit which was called Sid or siddiqui was pur moonshine. Depending who made it it could be as rough as a badgers nether regions or as smooth has silk. One of thee guys I knew who worked in medical physics as acting weird one day and I said to my hubby what’s up with James and he told me that he was sober. In 18 months I’d never seen him sober but I hadn’t realised he was drunk as I’d always seen him the same was. Funny enough, he was a Geordie too. My best friend worked with me, sh y brides made and I cut her a lot of slack as even hungover she was one of the best nurses I’ve evrknown. She died of alcohol poisoning at 32 a year after coming home. That stopped me drinking. ASA nurse I’d been used to the har partying culture of the 80s and 90s but seeing her die stopped me in my tracks.
When I first quit it was difficult because I found myself with a lot of time on my hands but after five years sober I’ve built a whole new alcohol free routine, I find jobs to do, get out everyday, look forward to meals, sleep regular hours, enjoy talking to neighbours and friends that I’d previously tried to avoid and generally enjoy the stability and control that comes with sobriety. So no matter how tough it may seem at first stick at it and your life will improve immeasurably.
Like you steve, i never want to go back there. Our local snooker hall had a back door for regulars which was discreetly open at 10 in the morning and it was packed out.!!.. needless to say a lot of those lads from back in the day have sadly passed away now., didnt make 60, god bless mate and keep spreading your message, its saving lives.
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Thanks Steven. 27 years old and 27 days alcohol free here in Seattle, WA, USA. I listen to your videos on 0.75 speed and really appreciate you posting these.
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@stevencurry215 They were all married with wifes that worked. Most of them had bad backs and were on benefits. All day every day between us and the booky
Another great video Stephen.. people always saying "Acohol ruined my life".. Well I ruined my life because I chose alcohol. I got dry, then my dad died, etc, excuse after excuse. Really trying hard to fight this bastard.. your about my age so your like the big brother telling me to sort my shit out. Thankyou ❤
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tapering off is very very difficult as at some point it gets derailed by a long weekend or something like that, I am still chasing tapering off and its like chasing a rainbow (btw I am nowhere near how you describe your Soho situation, but same issue)
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Hey Steve, another eye opener and reality check. I was the oddbal, no bars, just drank at home. But, it was an all day affair, other than a late afternoon nap. It slowly crept up on me over the course of year. Been about 5 months for me now, sadly with 2 one day lapses. Good think is , I learned something from those. Or, at least I hope I did. Take care.
I was like that also. In NZ the pub culture is not as "normal". I just drank at home every night, or days off from work I started early afternoon. 4 months sober and Steve is also my daily reality check. Keep it up!
This is a very powerful video. What you say here will without question hit home to some folk who will suddenly realise that that is where they are in life, and that perhaps now is the time to change or seek help or advice. I remember a good few years ago in a town that I lived in seeing a guy in the morning. He was clearly an alcoholic. He was swigging from a large plastic bottle of strong cider. The backside of his jeans were brown. Faecal brown. He must have dirtied himself, and either not noticed or chose to ignore it, and the crap had seeped through. Yet still he was swigging from a big bottle of strong cider. One of those images you just never forget. Thank you.
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Another harrowing story Steve and hard to associate that man with the one that sits in front of us now. My Dad was a Geordie and barely touched a drop of drink. From a large impoverished mining family I think he saw enough of it and the pain it caused, to never start. He always said beggars can't be boozers. A great pity I didn't heed his warning, but I'm trying to get on top of it now and feeling good. Thanks Steve.
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I came back to the Midlands for my dad's funeral but when I went back home to London the first place I went late that night was soho ❤ we used to have the same regulars waiting to be let into the bar in the morning, real characters 🤣 nearly at the 2 month mark now Steven. Today was packed with work and didn't have time to think about the alcohol 💪
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I’m 48 of it a month binge drinking when I was in my 30s 40s early pup was open at 8am I s as always kept fit but the last binge was it for me 6 days taking tablets as well I thought my head was gone it really was the last straw, past month running weight hiking just trying to change my whole life style for good tho time.
Thanks Steven for this excellent message, much appreciated. After work, i used to mark a fifth of tequilla about 3/4 from the top, and promised myself i would not drink more than this amount for the night because i had to work the next day. This system didn't work well because once i started drinking i lost all sensibility and filled the bottle again. You look amazing mate ❤
Excellent and brutally honest vid Steven. Brings back many memories of when I was falling into alcohol addiction. I remember a time when I had a really bad hangover (what I thought it was at the time), and I really was unable to function properly when I tried to sober up to return to work after a two month work break. I decided to head to local GP surgery and register - they gave me a form to complete and I couldnt even write because of shaking. So I decided then to take the registration form to good old Wetherspoons and have a quick pint (fix!). The waiting for 10am opening time was brutal, filled with gut wrenching anxiety, and then finally ordering a pint of Guiness and trying to act "normal" in front of the bar maid. As soon as I had finished half of that pint I was able to write again. It was at that point that I knew I had a problem.
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Another good video 👍 I’m just a typical weekend binge drinker but when I have a weekend off I feel so much better for it, alcohol is poison/toxic when you think about it it’s absolutely mental that you can go into any shop at just about anytime and buy it, the world/society would be a different place without it that’s for sure
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@@stevencurry215 im great thank you steven im still off the drink i am going to bed early every night and waking up early in the mornings and i have a shower i feel fresh after i have a shower my dad asked me earlier did i have a drink and do you know what i said to him i said drink is the last thing on my mind and he said to me good man son he also said drink is a curse that kill you.I have noticed one thing since i stopped drinking my heart is not racing any more and i am not getting heart palpatations anymore i feel more energised i walk to my local mens shed every day i feel a lot fitter and my mates say to me how well i look after all the wieght i have lost i am eating more healthy and i am looking after my bp and my diabietes I would advise any one to go to their gp and get checked for diabiets donr be embarrassed i was embarresed but not any more i say to dieabetes i control you not the other way round.Tc Steven mind yourself mate and thanks a million for your advise on your videos.
@@garyfaulkner1480 well done Gary great message.The drink will never defete us we will defete the drink.My name is mick greetings from ireland nice to meet you
Appreciate the posts. I used to be controlled by alcohol, to the point I didn’t know who I really was anymore due to associating my personality with the drunk me. Eventually, the hangovers were too horrendous to live with which caused me to choose a sober life. It took me a few years to get used to living alcohol free, but I feel so much better now and waking up with a clear head allows me to live a much happier existence.
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I'm not a pub drinker habitually,well not for 20 yrs, Day time 6am ,usually on second. Always on empty stomach. Works better. I worked nights 15 yrs ,but not gonna blame that. When I was 12,13 I used to get up early and swig off any dregs I could find that my dad had left from night before..... I was quids in every dinner time before afternoon school ,once he started brewing home made barley wine. I'm on my gradual withdrawal program, put I'm around 6.atm. I watching and learning, and putting as many tools in the box as can. Best care. Ty for the upload 💪
Steven just wanted to say I’ve been watching your videos for a few weeks now and think you are a great speaker. Currently getting me through a session on the treadmill. I think it’s important to learn about this behaviour and addiction as it could effect any of us. I’m not an alcoholic but my uncle was so understand I could be more susceptible to this disease.
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Been there one big chain pub very early 8:30 total madness life used to just focus around drinking on my own and the madness of blackouts and injuries that would happen some self Inflicted others received
Thank you Steve. Your videos help me understand my parents behaviours. I thought they hated me because drink came before everything. I didn’t understand the struggle.
Hi Steven, alcohol really is a vile addiction, we live bang in the town surrounded by pubs, which funnily enough rarely went into. Lots of homeless gather in the town all drinking, their lives are non existent it's very sad. One homeless man, was a really bad alcoholic, always looked utterly deshevield, walked with a trolley, he always had the same clothes on which was a jumper full of stains and grey track suit bottoms, he often wee'd himself but all that wetness down his front was still not enough of an embarrasment to stop him from going into the shop to buy his bottle of whiskey. He sat in a shop doorway slugging out of the bottle and people would give him a wide birth often to avoid more trickles of wee. Although he was a tad wiffy l used to chat to him , he was a nice man, such a shame. Just goes to show what can happen if you don't get a grip.
Hi thanks for sharing this ..Alcohol can take anyone down….as a young police officer in central London some of the people living on the streets came from all walks of life…it is such a destructive addiction
Spot on as usual Steve, I have been in my local spoons at 0900 hrs, the smell of booze etc makes me gag as I walk in that point I should have walked out, but the demon drink and potential 'buzz' I will get later forces me in, the first few gulps always make me literally shudder, then by lunchtime when the hunger kicks in, and 3-4 drinks in, I have gone into over drive to push past the hunger with speed drinking, its absolute madness as I read what I have just wrote, but all true sadly, thanks again for such an informative honest and helpful post, all the best you are an inspiration to many of us
@@stevencurry215 l cycle early 3 or 4 times a week along the Leeds/Liverpool canal. I'll often get a Spoons breakfast, there's 3, Bingley, Keighley & Skipton & you are 100% right. They are all busy with problem drinkers at 9am, nobody else fancies a beer or 10 that early......
Day 17 sober now, and I'm enjoying the energy I regained. Fortunately I never got to that stage of having to drink during the day. I drank 1.5 - 2 bottles of wine every evening. During the days I recovered just for starting it all over again in the evenings. I wasted about 3 decades of my life like this.
Always with you Steven, would drinking a few straight shorts to begin with not sort you quicker? I also suffer with a very shaky right hand, however I am on statins because of a heart attack back in 2019 and I'm aware that they can cause it.
Hi Steve. I have a question for you. I know you've been sober for 5+ years now (well done by the way) I wondered if you still have cravings after all this time? Triggers, I suppose you could call them. Do you ever get times when you find yourself thinking, god, I could do with a pint right now. If so how do you deal with them? I get these feelings a lot. Particularly during the festive period. Thanks Ste
Yes, absolutely…I often think “I wonder what it would be like to have a couple” but I soon dismiss the thought because I know I would most likely be dead in 6 months…I cannot control Alcohol..it controls me ..so hopefully I will be Alcohol Free..for the rest of my life 👍
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@Dottiedolly52 you know what I mean! I've drank for 3 or 4 days straight in the past but could never do beyond that because I'd feel fucked. Don't know how people do it for years.
Hi Steve, great video again!!. I remember waiting for a pub to open 9am, I'd have drunk 4 cans before I left the house. I was full of anxiety, feeling like shit & scruffy. When I look back, I think what an absolute mess I was. You give the best advice Steve - you've been there!. I hope you're well
Yes, what I do is set myself a target when I realise I'm getting out of shape through drinking. I'll say, right I'll lose 1st/6kg, by not drinking, then taper off. That leads to me feeling better, and then doing exercise. You need to look a few days ahead, and get out of guilt mode. 1 day at a time. It's the only way. We only live one day at a time ⏲️ 🙏
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Been through it lad, I started drinking when I was aged 16, worked at a local brewery. Obviously it was fun at the start. And it gave me confidence. I drank up till I reached the age of 50. Had a rough time ( and some good times) Been off it completely for almost 25 years now. Lost a lot of Good friends over the years. Drink ruined my life. I'll be back, go into more detail in the future, Best wishes to everyone having similar problems and good luck for the future.
Maybe you should make a channel to describe your experience. I'd watch!
@@bluecoffee8414 Definitely 👍
@@JohnSmiles-dz2uf 25 years absolutely amazing….please subscribe & keep sharing your experiences 👍
Congratulations John - You turned your life around and came out on top. Nice one, Roger
When I was nursing in Saudi in the 80s there were more heavy drinkers than I knew here. It was such an artificial culture for ex pats that for some reason the social life was alcohol based. Bearing in mind alcohol was illegal so it was home brew and home stilled. Everyone I knew has a booze stash and the spirit which was called Sid or siddiqui was pur moonshine. Depending who made it it could be as rough as a badgers nether regions or as smooth has silk. One of thee guys I knew who worked in medical physics as acting weird one day and I said to my hubby what’s up with James and he told me that he was sober. In 18 months I’d never seen him sober but I hadn’t realised he was drunk as I’d always seen him the same was. Funny enough, he was a Geordie too. My best friend worked with me, sh y brides made and I cut her a lot of slack as even hungover she was one of the best nurses I’ve evrknown. She died of alcohol poisoning at 32 a year after coming home. That stopped me drinking. ASA nurse I’d been used to the har partying culture of the 80s and 90s but seeing her die stopped me in my tracks.
When I first quit it was difficult because I found myself with a lot of time on my hands but after five years sober I’ve built a whole new alcohol free routine, I find jobs to do, get out everyday, look forward to meals, sleep regular hours, enjoy talking to neighbours and friends that I’d previously tried to avoid and generally enjoy the stability and control that comes with sobriety. So no matter how tough it may seem at first stick at it and your life will improve immeasurably.
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indeed, it’s amazing how much time we killed boozing. What a waste, never time to develop anything new.
Thanks I need the encouragement 👍
Like you steve, i never want to go back there. Our local snooker hall had a back door for regulars which was discreetly open at 10 in the morning and it was packed out.!!.. needless to say a lot of those lads from back in the day have sadly passed away now., didnt make 60, god bless mate and keep spreading your message, its saving lives.
@@garyfaulkner1480 Thank you Gary 👍
Please keep sharing, it’s so helpful 👍🏻
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Stephen I just wanted to tell you I am alright I went to see the doctor thank you for your kind words and caring Catherine ⚘️
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Well done Catherine 💯
Thanks Steven. 27 years old and 27 days alcohol free here in Seattle, WA, USA. I listen to your videos on 0.75 speed and really appreciate you posting these.
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Thanks Steven you describe the devastation of alcoholism really well, horrendously so.
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@ Hi Steven, thanks for asking, yes I’m well. You’re looking fitter every day
I grew up in our families pub, working behind bar from 16 years old. Doing over 20 hrs a week watching all these men drinking themselves to death.
Horrendous…Same faces every day
@stevencurry215 They were all married with wifes that worked. Most of them had bad backs and were on benefits. All day every day between us and the booky
@@lrdisco2005I stopped day drinking completely, even on weekends, when I noticed "look at these regulars" meant including myself as one of them.
@@ignoblesurfer6281 It was their Job, full time drinkers.
@@lrdisco2005 Yep. And there was a time in their life they weren't like that. I wonder if they ever think about it.
Another great video Stephen.. people always saying "Acohol ruined my life".. Well I ruined my life because I chose alcohol. I got dry, then my dad died, etc, excuse after excuse.
Really trying hard to fight this bastard.. your about my age so your like the big brother telling me to sort my shit out.
Thankyou ❤
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Leave the shite behind mate. Being sober will give you so much more quality of life. Good luck
tapering off is very very difficult as at some point it gets derailed by a long weekend or something like that, I am still chasing tapering off and its like chasing a rainbow (btw I am nowhere near how you describe your Soho situation, but same issue)
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I listen to you every night Steven. You really have been an amazing influence with my sobriety. Thank you kindly. 💯🙏🙏🙏
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Keep up the good work. Inspiring . I can relate to addiction lost wife and son.
So sorry to hear of your losses ..so personal this
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Hey Steve, another eye opener and reality check. I was the oddbal, no bars, just drank at home. But, it was an all day affair, other than a late afternoon nap. It slowly crept up on me over the course of year. Been about 5 months for me now, sadly with 2 one day lapses. Good think is , I learned something from those. Or, at least I hope I did. Take care.
I was like that also. In NZ the pub culture is not as "normal". I just drank at home every night, or days off from work I started early afternoon. 4 months sober and Steve is also my daily reality check. Keep it up!
If you relapse, you may never be able to get sober.my moto is , no matter what don't drink.
Excellent as always Steven 👏👏👏
Keep up your fantastic work 👍
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This is a very powerful video. What you say here will without question hit home to some folk who will suddenly realise that that is where they are in life, and that perhaps now is the time to change or seek help or advice.
I remember a good few years ago in a town that I lived in seeing a guy in the morning. He was clearly an alcoholic. He was swigging from a large plastic bottle of strong cider. The backside of his jeans were brown. Faecal brown. He must have dirtied himself, and either not noticed or chose to ignore it, and the crap had seeped through. Yet still he was swigging from a big bottle of strong cider.
One of those images you just never forget.
Thank you.
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Another harrowing story Steve and hard to associate that man with the one that sits in front of us now. My Dad was a Geordie and barely touched a drop of drink. From a large impoverished mining family I think he saw enough of it and the pain it caused, to never start. He always said beggars can't be boozers. A great pity I didn't heed his warning, but I'm trying to get on top of it now and feeling good. Thanks Steve.
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I so look forward to your uploads. Keep up the good work.
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Nothing changes until something changes - talk to your doctor !
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Well do I recall that horrendous first pint of the morning, gagging on the smell of beerline cleaner, bleach and sanitizer.
@@benholmes1608 it was awful and the pub was always so cold too
Mate you’ve just described my life at the minute. Called in work today to sit alone drinking cans. It’s miserable
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I came back to the Midlands for my dad's funeral but when I went back home to London the first place I went late that night was soho ❤ we used to have the same regulars waiting to be let into the bar in the morning, real characters 🤣 nearly at the 2 month mark now Steven. Today was packed with work and didn't have time to think about the alcohol 💪
@@georgiahumphreys3881 Soho is very unique indeed …lots of characters for sure. Congratulations on 2 months coming up !! Fantastic ❤️
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Hi steve learning a lot from you been of the drink now for 11 weeks it's hard but I will get there all thanks to you ❤
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@@brianhogan6672 fair play to you brian.Well done my name is mick greetings from ireland so nice to meet you.
I’m 48 of it a month binge drinking when I was in my 30s 40s early pup was open at 8am I s as always kept fit but the last binge was it for me 6 days taking tablets as well I thought my head was gone it really was the last straw, past month running weight hiking just trying to change my whole life style for good tho time.
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Thanks Steven for this excellent message, much appreciated. After work, i used to mark a fifth of tequilla about 3/4 from the top, and promised myself i would not drink more than this amount for the night because i had to work the next day. This system didn't work well because once i started drinking i lost all sensibility and filled the bottle again. You look amazing mate ❤
This is the problem we have 1 then end up having 21..❤️
Excellent and brutally honest vid Steven. Brings back many memories of when I was falling into alcohol addiction. I remember a time when I had a really bad hangover (what I thought it was at the time), and I really was unable to function properly when I tried to sober up to return to work after a two month work break. I decided to head to local GP surgery and register - they gave me a form to complete and I couldnt even write because of shaking. So I decided then to take the registration form to good old Wetherspoons and have a quick pint (fix!). The waiting for 10am opening time was brutal, filled with gut wrenching anxiety, and then finally ordering a pint of Guiness and trying to act "normal" in front of the bar maid. As soon as I had finished half of that pint I was able to write again. It was at that point that I knew I had a problem.
@@marc11991199 The not being able to write was horrendous for me I had to hand write complex results at times
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I’m just a typical weekend binge drinker but when I have a weekend off I feel so much better for it, alcohol is poison/toxic when you think about it it’s absolutely mental that you can go into any shop at just about anytime and buy it, the world/society would be a different place without it that’s for sure
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Hey steven im glad you are off the drink fair play to you.
Thank you mick how are you?..
@@stevencurry215 im great thank you steven im still off the drink i am going to bed early every night and waking up early in the mornings and i have a shower i feel fresh after i have a shower my dad asked me earlier did i have a drink and do you know what i said to him i said drink is the last thing on my mind and he said to me good man son he also said drink is a curse that kill you.I have noticed one thing since i stopped drinking my heart is not racing any more and i am not getting heart palpatations anymore i feel more energised i walk to my local mens shed every day i feel a lot fitter and my mates say to me how well i look after all the wieght i have lost i am eating more healthy and i am looking after my bp and my diabietes I would advise any one to go to their gp and get checked for diabiets donr be embarrassed i was embarresed but not any more i say to dieabetes i control you not the other way round.Tc Steven mind yourself mate and thanks a million for your advise on your videos.
Lets all keep talking and and fighting against the demon drink, its evil but together we will defeat it and lead fantastic sober lives x
Great message..There is safety in numbers 👍👍👍
@@garyfaulkner1480 well done Gary great message.The drink will never defete us we will defete the drink.My name is mick greetings from ireland nice to meet you
Thank you mick...and yes, we must keep fighting mate...god bless
Keep those vids coming steve, your making a huge difference to peoples lives on here.
Appreciate the posts. I used to be controlled by alcohol, to the point I didn’t know who I really was anymore due to associating my personality with the drunk me. Eventually, the hangovers were too horrendous to live with which caused me to choose a sober life. It took me a few years to get used to living alcohol free, but I feel so much better now and waking up with a clear head allows me to live a much happier existence.
Hi Steve. Really getting a lot from your channel. Struggled with alcohol from early teens. Relate to all you say and the constant struggle with it.
@@derekmccormack7461 Hi Derek, I’m so pleased I can help.
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I'm not a pub drinker habitually,well not for 20 yrs,
Day time 6am ,usually on second. Always on empty stomach. Works better.
I worked nights 15 yrs ,but not gonna blame that. When I was 12,13 I used to get up early and swig off any dregs I could find that my dad had left from night before.....
I was quids in every dinner time before afternoon school ,once he started brewing home made barley wine.
I'm on my gradual withdrawal program, put I'm around 6.atm.
I watching and learning, and putting as many tools in the box as can.
Best care.
Ty for the upload 💪
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@stevencurry215 absolutely, nx relapse prevention meeting (in dec) I'll be recommending. 👍👍
Steven just wanted to say I’ve been watching your videos for a few weeks now and think you are a great speaker. Currently getting me through a session on the treadmill. I think it’s important to learn about this behaviour and addiction as it could effect any of us. I’m not an alcoholic but my uncle was so understand I could be more susceptible to this disease.
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My local Wetherspoons is packed at 9.30am!
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I was one of them. I used to use the excuse I was going for breakfast 😂. Winter is hard.
My local has people waiting outside at 8.30am (opens at 9am)
West end in Townsville 9am good pub by 10am heaps of people good pub
It’s so busy in one of the local pubs here 9:30 on a Saturday packed
Been there one big chain pub very early 8:30 total madness life used to just focus around drinking on my own and the madness of blackouts and injuries that would happen some self
Inflicted others received
@@kammiidnb A totally crazy world in “ active Addiction “
Thank you Steve. Your videos help me understand my parents behaviours. I thought they hated me because drink came before everything. I didn’t understand the struggle.
@@marygamon8558 Hi Alcoholism is a constant battle ❤️
Hi Steven, alcohol really is a vile addiction, we live bang in the town surrounded by pubs, which funnily enough rarely went into. Lots of homeless gather in the town all drinking, their lives are non existent it's very sad. One homeless man, was a really bad alcoholic, always looked utterly deshevield, walked with a trolley, he always had the same clothes on which was a jumper full of stains and grey track suit bottoms, he often wee'd himself but all that wetness down his front was still not enough of an embarrasment to stop him from going into the shop to buy his bottle of whiskey. He sat in a shop doorway slugging out of the bottle and people would give him a wide birth often to avoid more trickles of wee. Although he was a tad wiffy l used to chat to him , he was a nice man, such a shame. Just goes to show what can happen if you don't get a grip.
Hi thanks for sharing this ..Alcohol can take anyone down….as a young police officer in central London some of the people living on the streets came from all walks of life…it is such a destructive addiction
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Spot on as usual Steve, I have been in my local spoons at 0900 hrs, the smell of booze etc makes me gag as I walk in that point I should have walked out, but the demon drink and potential 'buzz' I will get later forces me in, the first few gulps always make me literally shudder, then by lunchtime when the hunger kicks in, and 3-4 drinks in, I have gone into over drive to push past the hunger with speed drinking, its absolute madness as I read what I have just wrote, but all true sadly, thanks again for such an informative honest and helpful post, all the best you are an inspiration to many of us
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@@stevencurry215 l cycle early 3 or 4 times a week along the Leeds/Liverpool canal. I'll often get a Spoons breakfast, there's 3, Bingley, Keighley & Skipton & you are 100% right. They are all busy with problem drinkers at 9am, nobody else fancies a beer or 10 that early......
Day 17 sober now, and I'm enjoying the energy I regained. Fortunately I never got to that stage of having to drink during the day. I drank 1.5 - 2 bottles of wine every evening. During the days I recovered just for starting it all over again in the evenings. I wasted about 3 decades of my life like this.
Great news you are 17 days in well done..Remember “you can’t turn the clock back but you can wind it up again”
Always with you Steven, would drinking a few straight shorts to begin with not sort you quicker? I also suffer with a very shaky right hand, however I am on statins because of a heart attack back in 2019 and I'm aware that they can cause it.
@@lesliekime7567 Hi Leslie…hope you are well….strangely enough I never fancied spirits 👍
Hi Steve.
I have a question for you. I know you've been sober for 5+ years now (well done by the way) I wondered if you still have cravings after all this time? Triggers, I suppose you could call them. Do you ever get times when you find yourself thinking, god, I could do with a pint right now. If so how do you deal with them? I get these feelings a lot. Particularly during the festive period.
Thanks Ste
Yes, absolutely…I often think “I wonder what it would be like to have a couple” but I soon dismiss the thought because I know I would most likely be dead in 6 months…I cannot control Alcohol..it controls me ..so hopefully I will be Alcohol Free..for the rest of my life 👍
Wonderful video.
Thank you Rachel …Hope you are well 👍
Wowcha mate 😮.
Early doors starting @9am is crazy .....
What sort of money did it cost you onna daily when you was drinking all day ?
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£50 /£60 a day minimum
Stephen I appreciate you big guy. I watch you everyday your an inspiration
@@dandrysdale9015 Thanks Dan
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Funny how drinkers are different, my consumption was once way out of control but l'd still marvel at others who could drink in a morning!
Drinking in the morning is mainly to try and function through withdrawal
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Never drink on an empty stomach
Good point
I love it when you blow kisses at the camera mate 😂😂😂
My girlfriend keeps mentioning this…i can’t see it myself..💋
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The ex landlord of my local used to ban alcoholics so they just ended up drinking at home alone.
@@Hedgehogsinthemist123 I can imagine…once you are addicted you will seek out a drink anywhere you can 👍
Off topic but be careful with those candles you have soot marks on your wall we need you safe 🙏
@@paulconaghan9432 Thank you Paul …much appreciated 👍
Never been in the mood for that, not ever, not even on vacation. It's when the sun os setting, that's when it hits.
Hi I think a lot of people drink early because of fear of withdrawal or loneliness..maybe a combination of both..thanks for subscribing & pls share your help spread the word 👍
How you doing buddy.
Everyday I'd arrange to meet my mate at 8 pm. Me I'd be there for 7.30 to get one in b4 he came.Rediculoud.
I’m good mate …how are you ..yes I often had a few beers at home before I ventured out…it was a crazy world
I'd love an early pint right now.
@@nc2933 Of course …it’s personal choice… I know Alcohol beat me ..
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@Dottiedolly52 you know what I mean!
I've drank for 3 or 4 days straight in the past but could never do beyond that because I'd feel fucked. Don't know how people do it for years.
Hi Steve, great video again!!. I remember waiting for a pub to open 9am, I'd have drunk 4 cans before I left the house. I was full of anxiety, feeling like shit & scruffy. When I look back, I think what an absolute mess I was. You give the best advice Steve - you've been there!. I hope you're well
Yes, what I do is set myself a target when I realise I'm getting out of shape through drinking. I'll say, right I'll lose 1st/6kg, by not drinking, then taper off. That leads to me feeling better, and then doing exercise. You need to look a few days ahead, and get out of guilt mode. 1 day at a time. It's the only way. We only live one day at a time ⏲️ 🙏
Very good advice….1 day at a time is as you say the only way to move forward 👍
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Hard to believe what this substance can do to you. Shocking 🥲
@@quantum5652 it’s mind altering 👍
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