Episode 16

Sobriety Uncensored

Daniel Patterson

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 666 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jenna and Daniel discuss the stereotypes and stigma associated with alcoholism and their differing beginnings with active addiction. They consider the relative nature of having a “drinking problem” and the subjectivity of identifying as an alcoholic. Daniel explains his “staircase” analogy and how it applies to slips while getting sober. They talk about the concept of “Dry January” and how it is perceived differently by various types of drinkers.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to sobriety uncensored episode 16.
0:03.4	This is Jenna and I'm here with Daniel.
0:05.5	Hey, hey.
0:07.2	We're wrapping up the month of January, 2023.
0:11.8	16 is a significant number for me because it's the year I had my first drink when I was 16 years old. Yeah. I had a 40 of Paps blue ribbon. PBR, baby.
0:26.1	Yeah. And you had a 40 of it all by yourself. Yeah. And I remember thinking, how do people do this?
0:34.7	I was, went up to visit my brother at college, and that's only like three in a three beers and
0:43.4	some change, right?
0:44.5	40 ounces, 36.
0:46.7	Yeah, it's like three beers and a third of a beer, which later in life was a moose bouch know like the fucking like not even like three beers
0:58.6	yeah come on but i i was up in oregon where my brother went to college and they were getting ready
1:05.4	to go out and they were going to bring me with them and they were drinking 40s and my brother hands me a 40 of paps blue ribbon
1:12.8	which is low alcohol percentage high shame um and i'm drinking it and i'm starting to get the
1:20.9	like and i remember thinking how do people do this how do people drink and function And that's such a funny memory to me because now on the flip side, you know, when I was at the end of my drinking career, I remember thinking, how do people do this without drinking? Such a weird where now I laugh like three and a half beers like fuck you you know and then I was like
1:45.3	this is 40 ounces just like the sublime song oh my god like where are my puka shells yes yeah well
1:59.5	it's crazy how things how your perspective on things change.
2:03.8	Your perspectives change with life experience and age and all that good stuff.
2:09.6	And I think, I don't think any of us go into our alcoholic habits or even our first drink thinking anything but, this i don't know how you know i think
2:20.8	a lot of people probably think that yeah and i you one thing we talked on the last episode about
2:26.8	you're not being on instagram and she won't be so just drop it people um but i get a lot of
2:33.3	feedback um people will it's much easier to message on instagram than ticot so they send me message So just drop it people. But I get a lot of feedback.
2:37.2	People will, it's much easier to message on Instagram than TikTok.
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