What Happens AFTER Delirium Tremens? Stories From The Psych Ward 

I purchased the audiobook version of "Just Crazy Enough To Work" and it was entirely captivating. A painful, emotional journey filled with trauma and failures interwoven with hints of sanity and moments to celebrate. Not only for those seeking sobriety but for those seeking a genuinely mesmerizing adventure to ride along with. I’ll purchase the book as well to smell the pages. Highly recommended. (24 days today on my sober journey.)

Yay! New video! Sooner than expected. I liked it in advance bc i know that it will be awesome!

“At least it’s not an advert for World of Tanks” 😂 Your recent experience sounds like a hypnagogic hallucination. I’ve had these several times and it seems more prevalent when I am stressed or have a lot on my mind. Thanks for the video!

I'll be forty in November and I truly believe that I have brain damage from going through the DTs *_so_* many times. It's always nightmarishly horrific and still remember everything I seen and heard, vividly. I feel so sorry for the doctors, nurses and security guards that had to put up with me, at one point, the only person I slightly trusted in that entire hospital was a security guard. Poor guy had to chase me through the countryside and a forest just to calm me down a bit and take me back to the hospital. I made him call the police so they could come and take me to jail for my own safety because I *_knew_* that the doctors were planning to steal my internal organs and sell them to the giant lizards that run the hospital.

As an Austrian, I like to hear you speak german! 😊 Do you still dream/have flashbacks about drinking/being drunk or your time in the psych ward? What was your mindset in there; did you believe at that time that it will get better? even though I haven't drank alcohol for 10 years, I still have vivid dreams of being drunk in public and embarrassing myself. I commented this on an earlier video, I drank pretty heavily on weekends for several years, but stopped quite abruptly after leaving my hometown and cutting some toxic people out of my life. back then, I never thought I might develop a problem with alcohol, but in retrospective, I definitely was at risk.

Currently listening to your book on audible, really enjoying it. Despite it being a hell of a journey. I have nothing but appreciation, admiration and almost a little jealousy. The places, nature and people you must have seen and met is wild and that is life experience that not many people have endured. Might sound strange but some of us love a challenge and push ourselves to the brink just to make it through the other side, almost self destructive and I assume that whole experience made you stronger, resilient, appreciative and gave you some unbelievable perspective on not only the world but yourself as well. Hat's off to you sir Edit, you quite obviously endured some shit along the way which would defeat most people, I am humbled by your integrity and resilience

Dude. Wow. I never had visual hallucinations. I had auditory and sensory but never visual in the 4 times that I've been through this. I only had medical treatment once. And yes. I realize that's a bad idea and I could have and probably should have died. But by the grace of god I didn't. The one single line that hit home with me out of this video was its your brain mocking you as you die. Sent chills up me man. Because up until now I could never quite put into words how it felt. Thanks for this video man. We're all in this together. ODAAT!

I think it’s Wonderful that you wrote a book. I’m definitely going to check it out.💞

You are a gem you have been to hell and back ❤❤

Which lens is that and what happened to it? I used my Canon EF 50mm 1.4 on my last video and I have to manually focus it because the autofocus doesn't work half the time with the R mount adapter. Ahh. Our old friend delirium tremens and alcoholic hallucinosis. I am totally with you. Great content as usual, my man.

I still carry the trauma of my experience with delirium tremens with me. On the one hand it is like "your own brain" torturing you to death-- but I could absolutely not shake the impression that I was not alone; that I was being attacked by hostile spiritual enemies. I couldn't possibly have been responsible for my hallucinations, because what if I was? Yeesh. PS. Can't wait to read your book!

I actually love these storys pure Mania,after heavy drinking i recall having horror dreams but not tremens

Alcohol services advise alcoholics to taper off to avoid severe withdrawals like DT’s. Most alcoholics are happy with this because it continues to give them licence to drink and they mostly can’t taper successfully. Whats your opinion on tapering and does it work?

Exactly how I feel after my DTs I felt the after effects for days after and it’s got better after a week but still terrified of socialising. My DTs were not as severe as yours because I still had say 60% of reality but that could be my illness talking but still they were pretty severe but I rarely lost my full vision to that level, but the heart attack statistic is shocking plus on the start of my DTs I got a strong taste for my last drink and started to see really evil people throughout history, then the visions of hell and women screaming started to occur when I’d close my eyes. But this video helped me a lot and feel I was meant to see it after I commented about the after effects the other day.

Love your stories, cause I can relate

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Good for you for telling that dr off. He should have believed you!

Btw, your experiences sound just as bad if not worse than my experiences with precipitated WD’s. God bless. 👍🇺🇸

Bat Country, thank you for these insightful videos. Should I go to the ER if I have had shortness of breath for the last 5 day and over the last month have had a (very) minor seizure. I have also had 2 visual hallucination episodes. I go to sleep for 2 hours and the dreams are also very lucid in between the hallucinations.

The last time I went to A&E with alcoholic hallucinosis, I was given librium and just sent immediately home once I'd swallowed them. Surely that wasn't right, given what you've said about how dangerous it is to send someone home with benzos in their system?

I googled delirium tremens and it's literally a type of beer.. 💀

Bro has anyone ever told you you look like Adam Calhoun? Before any fans start verbally attacking me for that let me say i really like Adam Calhoun so this is a compliment lol. I know alot of people dont like him but I do so again it was a compliment lol. Anyways another great video Sir keep em coming 👍

This needed a cat in the background

I alwags used to hear voices and see faces etc when on the gak. Callee 999 once telling th3m i was beibg invaded. They werent happy when they saw me

Edgar Allan Poe.

Bro, you ever considered God? You and your experiences, your recovery are NOT at the center of your world. You place them there. God sent his Son to die for my sins, and yours. We are forgiven IF we accept this fact, believe that Christ died for our sins and accept him as our savior. Without that, we will keep meeting back here, telling the world how YOUR way IS NOT WORKING. Defy this, as you have for an eternity. If RU-vid subs and likes is the goal, keep going down this path (war stories and how you can help but admittedly provide no actual help?). OR, you can follow Christ. With Him we can accomplish anything. Without Him, we are searching for control we will NEVER have and failing as we go.

Im 8 days sober. Desperate to make it stick this time. 👍🏻

Keep up the solid work my friend. 👏 💯

Your stories are really important because DTs are often treated as a taboo topic when they shouldn't be. I had the same experiences as you and it was very frightening because I didn't know what to expect or what was happening to me - the mutilated faces, the fight or flight urges.

new Bat Country , let's gooooooooo 🍽🍽

In Delirium Tremens it's as if the fabric of your own reality has been torn and a portal to hell has opened. I truly believe in hell after my experiences. I too still get the occasional reminder usually when I'm nodding off to sleep but it's getting less frequent through abstinence. Stuart thank you for these videos. They serve to remind me why I chose abstinence. It's not easy but then again anything worthwhile never is. I still occasionally have dreams in which I'm actively searching for or planning to drink. The brain is a such a curious a complex entity even when asleep. I'm looking forward to your next video with the fixed classic looking lens.

Oh my fucking GOD I hated DT's, one time hundreds of 10ft tall black, boney, winged, oily, demons came crawling out of the ground and flew at me all at once, it scared the living shit out of me, then according to my brother I started convulsing and chewing my tongue to shreds...he called the ambulance and the nurses at the hospital were pissed off at seeing a young man drinking himself to death...sober 25 years now.

Love everything about bat country!

Anytime I feel like engaging booze again, I’m going to come to your channel and watch this video again. You’re a great storyteller.

Oh gourd, i dont think i ever had a tactile hallucination. Everyone is a bit different, when i was suffering the worst, if i touched a hallucination it would disappear or "turn into" something real. Like i might have seem someones face or head, but it was really an object d' art that was the, hmm, the placeholder? Anyway, good to see you today, hope its a good week my brotha. Oh, and headphones? I am okay without headphones, but i always sleep with the lights on. Its... I have to.

Ģod bless ❤

Thanks again. Really enjoyed listening to you talk mate. Really helps a lot.

Tactile hallucinations! I'm going to love this channel...including the intro, with the 1920s ? music 🎶 🎵 and the steaming brew !!! That's soon me !!! 😂

I just want to say thank you for your videos, they have helped me a lot. The honesty, storytelling skills & video and audio quality... Looking forward for more😊

Another banger, thank you! Hopefully the lens you were working on was real or we’re all f+#^*ed.

Thank you for sharing, I know you have been told this before, but you should write a book. Your descriptions capture the dark reality of heavy alcoholism. I have yet to hear anyone recalling a story of alcohol withdraw where people saw images of what they would imagine to be paradise. Maybe that only comes in the phase that no one lives to describe.

I love your videos, but I ask why it’s so high or so very low along way. Is there a middle ground . As you seem intelligent person. Good thing mate

Hey Bat Country, I've been sober for 4 days now and your videos have helped. I went down a spiraling path after my cat died. That cat was with me since I was 11 years old and I'm 27 now. It made me start to think about death and how someday my parents would die and on and on. It gave me anxiety, or so I thought. Turns out it was the drinking. I had one of the worst nights of my life on my first night of sobriety. I literally couldn't sleep, even after being awake for 25 hours. Brain zaps, horrible feelings of dread right as I was about to fall asleep, and a pounding heart. I found your videos and learned about Delirium Tremen from you and while I never had that unfortunate experience, it scared me even straighter into sobriety. You talked about how you slowly come to a precipice whenever you are drinking and how once you go down there is no bottom in one video. While I don't know how close I was to that precipice, I never went in part because of your videos. I want to thank you for sharing your experiences.

Just found your channel randomly through the algorithm, love your stuff man you put into words a lot of the feelings I have in my head as I struggle as a """"""functioning""""""" alcoholic and have been for a long time. I'm trying my best to quit but ill admit I havent yet ive had many relapses, in fact im drunk right now. But man I wish I had a friend like you in my life to put stuff into words im not often capable of doing myself. You rock dude I hope I can get over my addiction and fix this shit because living like this kinda sucks ass. Im so sick of feeling sick, im so tired of feeling tired, but man the stories i have heard so far from you give me hope, if you can do it I can do it.

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Do you think it’s possible to be physically dependent on alcohol if you only drink wine at night? I know someone says that applies to them but I thought you would have to be drinking more than that for dependency to that level be present

I love this video because it combines the two things I watch most on RU-vid, anything to do with sobriety and ASMR videos of people fixing, cleaning or restoring things. I finished your book tonight, after you mentioned it in another video I went to your website to get it but it was sold out so I ended up getting an ebook version on amazon and just devoured it in a couple of days. It combined another two loves of mine, adventure travel and a memoir of alcohol addiction (of which i I've read many and I think have developed a cross addiction for alcohol/sobriety memoirs). I think what you are doing here, talking about delirium tremens and alcohol induced hallucinosis is very valuable and rare. As mentioned I consume a huge amount of content about sobriety, both in books and videos as I have battled with my own AUD, and no one else really talks about it. Having never experienced these myself, but know that it is where continued use could take me, it gives me yet another reason to stop for good, currently 5 days sober since the last binge and craving a good sleep. Oh and btw the lens you fixed looked way better than the modern lens.

Listening in the hot tub

Hi, I’m sober but had a few times in detox over the past 30 years. Last time a few months ago after a few years sober. I’ve had bad withdrawals but not got to the “chronic” halucinatory stage.. thank fully.. I went cold turkey a couple of months after 3/4 70 cl vodka a day for about 6 weeks. That was bad enough but the pain of that is serving as a good deterrent . Your recollections are terrifying..and a good deterrent to myself. It’s 6.45 am in UK at moment and just going for my morning 5-10 mile walk which has been a godsend in recovery. Thanks for your channel.. it’s incredibly “ real” and supportive! 👍 Mark

Interesting stuff, great video!

Hello Bat my friend. Yes the kindling effect is absolutely real, my withdrawals got progressively worse following heavier and heavier relapses, DTs more horrific each time, and like you Bat the images of my last hallucinations stay with me and pop up often. I wasn't aware of the stats around survival rates during DTs, so I now know my luck would have run out eventually. 1 year sober yesterday & always reminding myself this is not a 'lifestyle choice' it's a necessity.

I'm gonna have to get that book. I hope you ship to Canada.

I increasingly get the feeling there is something almost (or very) demonic about the sliding scale of the effects of alcohol. The end point being a hell of your/our own making. Its fascinating but I hope my in the field research is over I don’t think my heart would be able to take my imagination if I got the DT’s so I am grateful I can get a greater insight through your videos. I’d like to check out your book too! Need to get on it.

An Alky's mug of tea. I've got one the same. 😂

I have to admit that I came to almost enjoy the DT's. Simply because I had so many that I knew that everything I was seeing, hearing and feeling simply wasn't real. It was akin to playing the lead role in a most grotesquely, disturbing movie. With odd moments of hilarity and excitement. I'm not condoning it by the way, but I guess as I knew I was strapped into that rollercoaster ride again, I'd better make the best of it.

Thumbs Up 👍 and shared out.❤

Nice background music

25:38 you were thinking 🤔 either the girl is a hallucination or you’re going to catch a rape charge or something.

Bummer!!! Sold out. Back to Amazon… 💗🙌⛅️

Why do i keep headaches after 10 months sober and a DT. I feel like shit. Is this ever going away. I feel like shit.

I’m in the middle of Lands of Lost Borders right now. So excited that you have written a book! It is now on its way to me through good old Amazon. Thank you for your incredible videos and caring enough about us struggling alcoholics to tell your MEGA-cautionary tales…. yesterday was my first day sober.

You are such a good storyteller. At this point I am not sure anymore if you made this all up to promote your book.

Sleep hypnosis don't be a puzzy

I quite love your videos. What is that music in the background? Sounds nice but very hard to make out!

Great stuff. Thankful that I have never ever experienced DTs. Great vid 👍

I seriously can't believe you're still alive. no way you don't have cirrhosis

Never had DTs

I'm really sad I didn't see this video sooner as I've just tried to order your book and it has sold out! Please let me know when you have more available 😊

Did I remember right that you wrote your book while you were drinking heavily?

Also love the music bro it reminds me of that ending song in the Shinning when the camera pans in at that picture of 1920 Jack lol. 👍

Although I've never had DT's, I did only just about survive an illness 15 years ago that did have a lot of similar effects. A lot of what you say resonates and,even all these years later,I can honestly say there isn't a single day where I don't think about it in some way or another and,from the permanent detrimental effects it left me with,I quite openely admitted to a friend that it would have been better if the life support had been turned off at the time. Even though I've never had the same problem as you I can identify with what happened and you tell your story with a very calming voice.Well done and all the best mate.

I can see the tattoos on your right hand. The back of your hand seems like a compass. Soit (either in French) and then Goes. Meaning?

Book out of stock - sad face.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND IT AS A DIET 🤣

Would love to buy the book, but it says out of stock on your site. I guess I'll have to order it from amazon. Anyhow, absolutely love your content. Beautifully descriptive storytelling and overall brutal honesty is unparallel to anything I've come across on yt. Also appreciate and can deeply relate to your thoughts on alcoholic logic and perception. Please carry on ❤

Thanks for the info. Great.

Day late and a dollar short lol

When you jolt awake like that whilst falling asleep…it’s a survival mechanism from when we used to sleep in trees and the predators were on the ground.

That diagnosis of pseudo-dementia is interesting to me, though I have no record of TBI or even concussions (which is amazingly lucky because I was drinking and riding motorcycles all the time. I suspect I had something similar though at the height of my withdrawal where I was so disorientated and depressed I would do goofy stuff like place a jar of milk inside a kitchen drawer instead of the fridge. I also had a host of symptoms of altered mental status such as night terrors that may have been hallucinations, instead of nightmares. Like you said though, after you go through an experience like this you cannot fully trust your judgement again.