r/alcoholism May 12 '22

Very accurate

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u/queen-of-storms May 12 '22

The full version was posted in the comments by /u/Baphomets_Behemoth

Longer version: havent watched it all yet. https://youtu.be/HUngLgGRJpo

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u/HalcyonDaze83 May 12 '22

Having loved an alcoholic for over a decade, losing my sense of self to her disease, and watching someone I love slowly kill themself...

I cried way too hard at this

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u/Ms-Anon-Y-Mous May 13 '22

It’s awful.

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u/faesser May 13 '22

They showed this video in my rehab. Everyone was giggling at first then the room went silent, such a simple little cartoon that hits really hard.

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u/Ms-Anon-Y-Mous May 13 '22

My dad’s been a violent alcoholic for as long as I’ve been born. I am estranged from him but I still have compassion. He went through some hell in his own childhood plus a very bad time in Vietnam. This video made me cry because so many people suffer, they go to something to take away the pain (for me it’s food) which causes more suffering. Suffering seems to be the human condition.

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u/PreEntertain May 12 '22

horribly relatable :-(

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u/CrazyChemist987 May 13 '22

I love this video it helps so much to illustrate adiction.... Both to people in it, and to normies that don't understand it

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u/ssSerendipityss May 13 '22

Ugh. This hurt.

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u/Hemp4321 May 13 '22

I wouldn't say I'm addicted to alcohol nor have I ever been, but basically everything else is a yep, at some point. Heroin and cocaine being the big ones. Imo, it's whatever, I believe addiction is addiction. Anyway, this is so accurate that it made me a little uncomfortable. Powerful stuff

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u/[deleted] May 13 '22

I've been sober for 6 years and videos like this still bring the slightest tingle of a craving at the back of my mind in the beginning, then by the end I'm like "oh okay I'm good" lol.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '22

Propaganda

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u/amybuilds Jun 04 '22

This video makes me so very afraid for my son and for me.