How to stop feeling emotional and unstable when you stop drinking alcohol

When you stop drinking alcohol you can experience an emotional rollercoaster which can feel like a big challenge at a time when you already feel vulnerable. For many people this is enough to send them right back to day one!

Don't let that happen to you, watch this video and learn why we can feel easily emotionally overwhelmed in sobriety and exactly what to do in order to overcome it and thrive in your new alcohol-free life.

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Simon Chapple
The Quit Alcohol Coach

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[juliauren]

Hey Simon love your channel I'm 9 months sober next week .you helped me so much in my early sobriety

[markg.]

At whatever age the drinking became more than social, and turned into daily, maintenance, or chronic alcoholism, is the age we "ARE" emotionally. I finally got sober when I was 37, but my emotional age was about 17. The good news is that I found a solution where I learned about rigorous honesty, acceptance, willingness, and what we call "teach-ability".
The transformation into mature, and responsible adults is amazing when we live in the solution, instead of the problem! All the best...Mark 5/8/1994

[natrose]

I have quit alcohol 16 days ago. The second week has been devastating on my mental health. I feel really down and depressed. I have no energy and I'm struggling to go back to the gym. I hope this will pass but its not East. Thanks for your content boss❤

[Thedesertguy]

3 weeks in and I don't remember feeling this irritated and depressed even while drinking....this is fawking terrible. This needs to get better soon or that Happy hour is starting to sound great.

[BismillahirRahmanirRaheemB]

Whoa I’ve never heard someone ever say notice how old you feel 😮

[mehDOGIESRATS]

For me it's an ego thing, I get a rush when I go to buy a drink . Cutting back at the moment, got to say to ya self fck that horrible shit . Does feel a bit strange tho not drinking every day, trying to save for a new PC so at least it stops me from spending heaps on the booze . Good to have a goal . It's the hard stuff that getd me really going, so it's best I don't touch it all . Otherwise it's like 3 bottles of scotch a week . I can be really annoying sober so it's not like I need to drink booze . I get crazy vivid dreams when I don't drink also . I use it to dull of the pain from dry eye disease . Just need to suck it up and deal with it I guess . The older I get I realize this shit is just slowly killing me .

[killy]

Thise negative emotions i felt them all

[BismillahirRahmanirRaheemB]

Whoa never heard of an emotion wheel either

[AmbrociousXP]

Every day has been hell since I stopped drinking. December 14th 2023 was my last day of drinking alcohol and ever since then, I have been getting so freaking angry and depressed. I started drinking when I was 21 because that was the legal age and back then I considered myself to be a "good boy". For me drinking alcohol cured my reclusive introvertism. I was able to talk to people without feeling like I was walking on egg shells. I stopped drinking alcohol shortly after my dog died. He was VIOLENTLY ill for about 5 days; every day he wasn't able to keep water down. Every day I prayed that God would either heal him or please take him quickly. God did not answer at all. I finally had to make the heartbreaking call to put him down and end his suffering. I had a sudden breaking point where I realized that any "god" that would let that amount of suffering to go on and not answer pleading prayers was no god of mine. I then had the next most important epiphany; if I ever wanted to stop drinking alcohol and needed help from a "higher power" I realized that it would never come. Not too long after this understanding I went down a rabbit hole and discovered that the "god" I used to believe in (Yahweh) was actually just a General in Elyons army of Elohim and that they were merely aliens, NOT gods and had no way of holding up any of the promises of what the Bible had to offer. THIS SHATTERED ME. I stopped drinking AND smoking shortly after. This would make most people START drinking...but something in me is broken and it cannot be fixed. Alcohol was my life line to sanity and escape but I can't continue drinking knowing what I now know unless I want to swiftly end myself.