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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Stop Drinking Podcast
• 0:21 The Perceived Benefits of Alcohol
• 1:19 The Honeymoon Phase Deception
• 2:17 American Fraternity Diesel Experience
• 3:44 When Benefits Disappear: The Wake-up Call
• 5:07 Facing the Truth About Addiction

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to the Stop Drinking Podcast, where we help you make stopping drinking a simple, logical and easy decision. We help you with tips, tools and strategies to start living your best life when alcohol-free. If you want to learn more about stop drinking coaching, then head over to wwwsoberclearcom. Just think for a second. What happens when somebody starts drinking alcohol? Alcohol gives some sort of perceived benefit. Think about it. When I had my first few drinks, I remember I was out with my friends and all of a sudden I got validation. All my friends were encouraging. And then, as life went on, I started drinking at parties and socializing and I thought I was more lubricated and, you know, more confident to talk to girls and all of this stuff. But when we start drinking alcohol, we seem to gain something from it. But there is a shift that happens for everybody and today, in this video, I'm going to unpack that shift for you.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Just think about your drinking for a second. There is a perceived benefit. What I mean by this is maybe for you it's about coming home after a long day of work pouring a glass of wine, sitting back on the couch, drinking the wine and thinking peace. Maybe for you it's more of a social thing that when you go out and you talk with your friends, you're having some drinks. Maybe for others myself included alcohol was a form of escapism. I wasn't happy with an area of my life and I could just drink and forget about things. But when we drink we feel like we get something. We feel a perceived benefit. Why else would we drink a poison? Remember the first drink that you ever had? It tasted so damn bad. I can remember mine, like it was yesterday. We stole my best friend's mum's alcohol. We got the vodka, we took some, we filled it back up with water the classic trick and it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever tasted in my life. I couldn't understand why people would drink, but I pushed past that and then I got my first taste of feeling a bit drunk. But the whole reason why we drink is because we think we gain something from it. And for all drinkers we actually go through this kind of like, I would say this honeymoon phase where we drink and it causes no problems in our life. Now, if alcohol actually continued like that, then my YouTube channel wouldn't exist. People wouldn't end up developing problems with alcohol. I don't see any channels on the internet that are like talking about quitting oranges, right, my company is called Sober Clear. I don't see Apple Clear. The problem with alcohol is that. Number one, it's a drug. And number two is it creates an illusion of a benefit. Think about what alcohol is. It is a carcinogen. It is a poison. It's ethanol. It's highly addictive. If you drink enough of it you will die. And this substance is supposed to give us a benefit Like what? Logically, that makes no sense at all.

Speaker 1: 2:33

I don't know if you've ever tried diesel. I remember when I went to America I did a fraternity. So I went to USF in Tampa for one semester. I had like one exchange semester. Then I went back to university back in England, but during the exchange semester I went into a fraternity.

Speaker 1: 2:47

Oh my gosh, that was some crazy times. That was before I was sober Leon and not drinking for seven years right, this was during the madness. But they had this diesel that they'd pour into the punch. But as an Englishman, I'd never seen this diesel stuff before. But I thought, oh, I'm going to try a little bit of it. And I remember tasting this stuff and honestly, it felt like my mouth was on fire for like 10 minutes. I think it's 80% or 70%. It was the highest concentration of alcohol you can get, but I thought I'm going to try a tiny amount, just purely out of curiosity, and I swear that that was. It was like worse than eating the spiciest food I've ever had in my life. I felt like I drank gasoline.

Speaker 1: 3:21

So what they do is they make a punch but they pour this in and they dilute the living hell out of it so you can't taste it, and then pour a bunch of sugary drinks and cranberry and whatever else was in there. I don't even know. But we're supposed to believe that if we drink a small amount of this absolutely disgusting tasting drink, that we gain something from it. Anyway, what ends up happening is we have these benefits and then all of a sudden the benefits start disappearing. Drinking always starts off okay. That's why we don't really see many teenagers quitting drinking.

Speaker 1: 3:49

Sure, there's an argument that the current generation of young people are drinking less now, but when I was growing up, I never met an 18 or 19 year old that said, ha, I don't drink, unless maybe they were an athlete or something, but it just wasn't a thing. But then, as I got older, I met more people who did have problems with alcohol and they stopped. So what is the sign? When should you stop and listen? This might feel like a bit of a punch in the face, but when the perceived benefits go which happens pretty damn fast for most people For me it happened within the first few months of tasting alcohol I was getting smashed. I was waking up with hangovers. I was thinking why am I doing this? Sure, this honeymoon phase can last a few months. Sometimes it can last a decade.

Speaker 1: 4:25

But when you get to a place where you know that these perceived benefits are gone, what starts happening is you start lying to yourself, and this might be tough to listen to. This might be a bitter pill to swallow, but when you start justifying your drinking, when you start saying it's okay, I only drink a little bit here and there, it's not that bad. I hate to say it, but that's drug addiction. That's an addiction that's got hold of you and you're justifying it, and what I hope this video has done for you is given you a wake-up call.

Speaker 1: 4:51

If you've been lying to yourself or your friends or your family, telling yourself that it's all okay, I've got things under control, why, who are you kidding here? There are no benefits to consuming poison and I don't want to feel like some bully or something, but I made this video to call you out, not from a place of trying to put you in a corner and attack you. I made this video from a place of love, because all drinkers lie to themselves. How can you learn about what alcohol actually is and then continue drinking a drug? We're not living in the 1800s anymore. So many people are stopping drinking alcohol. Thanks for checking out the Stop Drinking podcast by Sober Clear. If you want to learn more about how we work with people to help them stop drinking effortlessly, then make sure to visit wwwsoberclearcom.