Alcohol Addiction: My Alcohol Story 

I don't want to die from this stuff. I really saw myself heading that way, fat, not old enough, and falling apart from alcohol abuse. I'll never go back, it feels too fantastic to be free! All the best on your journey...

Thanks for sharing your experience with drinking. Lisstening to you gives me hope that I can also stay off the alcohol. Both of my grandparents on both sides of my family had drinking issues as well as my mom and dad. No wonder I do as well you think. I am 48 and have been drinking for 30 years and in the last 5 years my binge drinking has gotten out of control. I am 3 weeks sober and the craving is getting less and less because I know how much I have to lose if I dont stop . Thanks again. Peace and encouragement to all who are struggling

Your story is very similar from mine. I became a single dad when my son was 4 y old. He is now 11y old. I tried to survive the days and when I put him to bed I went downstairs drinking alone.

I just found this video this evening, and wanted to thank you for being open and honest and sharing your story, knowledge, and wisdom. I look forward to watching all of the other videos you've shared. Thank you sir, you demonstrate great courage. I hope you maintain this strength and fortitude, and carry on with the courage you've demonstrated in this video. I look forward to watching your other videos. :)

For me it was always there since i was a kid and it was like a normal thing that everyone did. Same thing here. It's what men did and did after work. And yes that is how it escelated.. 100% true everything.

Thanks for your insight and advice. I am seeking help. Seeing you and you sharing your story. I am at a point in my life where it is time to stop. I am making that first step.

Kevin...you are a good man.I have a brother who has been drinking for years,keeps making promises to stop and when he doesn't,makes up all kinds of excuses.Maybe your videos will have some positive impact...thank you :-)

Kevin's the man. Thanks mate.

Thank you for sharing. We're all here because we have/had this demon in common. I'm trying to quit myself too.

My dad recently died from this disease, he had just turned 60. He had been struggling with alcohol addiction throughout his life but I knew little about it since I always lived with my mother, the subject was always too taboo to be discussed. He was a very smart professional man with several degrees and a good job, you would not tell looking at him that he had a drinking problem but these recent years he really started looking unwell, he looked yellow, very thin and had started calling me late in the evenings drunk rambling on about my mother or other trivial matters. When I questioned him about his health he always changed the subject. He was recently found dead in his bed by my grandparents. I have spent the past few days trying to understand more about the disease and what my dad was going through these past 40 years, my mother always said it was his choice to drink the way he did but for a man so intelligent and that lost so much in his life I feel that it might not have been so easy. I just wish these last few years I had taken the chance to know him better as an adult and question him about his issues, I guess I just felt that it would have hurt what little pride he had left.

Kevin, thank you for helping me understand that being honest with yourself is so.important with not drinking anymore!

Sorry about your wife Kev the same thing happened to me my wife was 41 and i was left to bring up two girls , hence the drinking increased to mask the pain . but it does'nt really still trying to quit the booze

Wow

how come this channel has so few subscribers?

We're all addicted to something!

This is a similar story to my mum, she started to drink when she was a young teen and then to unwind in the evening. It then got to an uncontrollable point where she would get very angry. She still struggles with it so now I am trying to understand her. What can a child do to her their parent?

Can habit be in there as well? As a sad reason..

Just wondering if you have any credentials....just asking. I think your videos are very helpful whether or not you have a degree.

It would appear I'm addicted to almost everything.

Sorry I just could'nt listen to this till the end; because I was hearing noises in the background of this video; wich was quite annoying, forgive me for saying so.....and I just could'nt concentrate on what Keving was saying..... Theese noises sounded like voices modified to electronics..... Maybe I'll catch another video with your story; without any noises .... That would be nice......

I think if you find you're an addict you were born that way ... I was.