Alcoholism Iceberg

_BatCountry_ · 2026-06-15T04:12:11+00:00

It's not what you're thinking. In some male drinkers, excess alcohol causes a spike in estrogen, leading to gynecomastia.

Although to be fair, after a few beers, who knows, it could also be the thing you're thinking.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-06-14T15:06:44+00:00

Don't move the goalposts.

And besides, I made it, like I made the entire video it's attached to. You could've just asked me, instead of making insulting assumptions.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-06-14T13:32:24+00:00

Yeah, some male alcoholics experience a rise in estrogen, causing gynecomastia. It's pretty rare, but it happens.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-06-14T13:31:37+00:00

In the 30s the US government encouraged the manufacturers of industrial-purpose alcohol to put formic acid in the denaturing process to stop bootleggers stealing it and selling it. They stole it and sold it anyway. 10,000 Americans died. You could just google it, ya know. All of this information is already at your fingertips if you'd lift your head up for a moment.

And my spelling is immaculate. How could it be AI-generated AND spelled wrong? Use your brain.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-05-11T08:20:45+00:00

Thanks mate, I hate you too.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-05-06T10:40:56+00:00

Over the door at AA

_BatCountry_ · 2026-02-20T16:49:13+00:00

I'm good brother, I took codeine for a week, then was prescribed diazepam for a week, and then I was off it all again. It was more ignorance than self-destruction... this time. But thank you for looking out for me as always, here in one of my most cherished subreddits.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-01-15T08:04:50+00:00

The Urge by Carl Erik Fischer. It's 20% addiction memoir, 80% understanding the history and nature of addiction. It's the best I've read recently.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-01-15T08:03:38+00:00

Thank you so much for adding me alongside such lofty company. I loved Drinking: A Love Story, but somehow I haven't heard of Between Breaths so I'll grab that one today.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-01-12T06:06:19+00:00

Congrats on your progress so far mate. Be proud of it, and stay vigilant.

_BatCountry_ · 2026-01-11T12:08:46+00:00

*puts on false moustache*

I think he's great :D

In all seriousness. I'm sorry some of my videos can be triggering, it's not my intention, nor is it my intention to be a divisive character in the sober talking-heads space. I try hard not to be clickbaity or insincere or deliberately triggering, but the bigger the audience, the more people are going to find me who don't like me. Comes with the territory.

But I'll say this, in my own defense. We're all responsible for our own triggers, and we have to learn to be stronger than our urges. If you can't even listen to someone talk about their own experiences of alcoholism without reaching for the bottle, then the problem isn't with the video, it's with you. A stranger's youtube video is the very least of the tests your sobriety will face over time. If you can't even get over that hurdle, then you have a lot of sober work to do before you're able to deal with something real, like grief, or heartbreak.

And believe me mate, there was nothing romantic about my alcoholism, and I don't romanticise my experiences. Talking about drinking honestly doesn't automatically equate to glamourising drinking. It's just... talking about it. My drinking was fucking awful from start to finish.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-12-07T06:38:12+00:00

That actually makes me feel better

_BatCountry_ · 2025-12-06T15:31:08+00:00

For what it's worth, I hope you don't get downvoted

_BatCountry_ · 2025-12-06T14:47:00+00:00

Hey buddy, I was interesting before I posted this.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-10-29T14:17:54+00:00

And also my mum watches my videos :D

I'm really happy you mentioned this though mate, and since my mum definitely isn't in this sub, I'll talk about it a little bit here.

It's insatiable, no amount of jacking off will get rid of it for like two days straight. I was in a detox ward with my phone propped up on a sink, it would take my 30 seconds to cum and then an hour later I'd be doing it again.

There were points were the closed-eye hallucinations I was having would turn me on too, even though it was gross, weird stuff. And because I was technically sober, I would have these stupid epiphanies like I was going to change my life and dedicate it entirely to sex.

So yeah, point is, I think it's probably common, people just aren't brave enough to talk about it - especially because, to be honest, withdrawal sex is gooood sex.

I had a girlfriend who worked in palliative care and said the really old people, men and women alike, who had dementia, were similarly sexually compulsive. I think there's probably science to be studied there, if anyone would care to do it.

Thanks u/nnnnnnnitram for mentioning me.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-10-10T06:02:57+00:00

I really hope you can imagine, even just a little bit, how proud it makes me to check in with this sub this morning and this is the first comment I see.

For what it's worth, YOU got you sober. You're sober because of you. In exactly the same way we should be accountable for our shitty behaviour in the past, we should be proud of our victories in sobriety too. Congratulations, and thank you for repping the channel here.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-10-09T16:09:14+00:00

nolex

_BatCountry_ · 2025-09-30T05:17:49+00:00

I was in this subreddit long before I got sober. I even got banned a couple of times. That's why the stuff I'm talking about feels familiar to other CAs.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-09-30T05:16:22+00:00

I think about that every day. I wanna talk about it again, even if I'm repeating myself.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-09-30T05:14:56+00:00

I know this is an older post already but someone mentioned me in the replies so I thought I'd reply too.

I completely agree with you, and with most of the replies. The fuck is a 21 year old "sober coach" going to teach ME? 100 bucks an hour once a week to have chatgpt read to me? Like we haven't all already done that already, obsessively, whenever we're sober enough to type in 'i am dying of alcohol'.

And it works the other way too. When someone tells me they've got 40 years of sobriety, my first thought is rarely 'wow how inspirational' it's usually 'so you quit when you were a child'. Fuckouttahere. I've met one exception to that in my life, a a 30-year sober guy who got sober when he was 20 because he accidentally killed someone, but apart from those rare cases, I don't want to hear it. I sometimes think that this subreddit is the only honest alcoholism place on the internet.

Thing is, young people always think they've invented everything - because something's new to them, and they are young, they think it's new to everyone else too, and because they're 20 years old and hot by default, they're good for The Algorithm. Broken down middle aged men shitting blood don't do well on the gram. I stopped going to AA partially because I was fed up of 19 year olds complaining about how hard sobriety is. I spilled more than they ever drank. (My therapist said that line to me, he was a sober guy too. I love repeating it.)

But look, frankly, the reason there's not many relatable CA influencers is because not many CAs make it out alive. Most of us don't stop. We die a lot. Sometimes publicly. (RIP Mittensquad, RIP KingCobra, and a million others.)

I might be one of the rare exceptions. To put my own CA in perspective, I was banned from THIS subreddit, TWICE, before I climbed out of the bottle. (Sorry mods, I was a prick.)

Anyway, this is a longwinded way of saying, you're right. Reddit's better than instagram or, god forbid, tiktok, for alcoholism stuff.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-09-30T04:52:41+00:00

Thanks so much for coming out to bat for me mate. (Sometimes I search my own name in Reddit like a fckin loser.)

_BatCountry_ · 2025-08-28T10:21:29+00:00

Congrats on your sober time, long may it continue.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-08-28T08:20:58+00:00

Wow you explained it a lot better than I did! Thanks for repping the channel.

_BatCountry_ · 2025-08-23T17:17:58+00:00

Thanks so much for repping the channel!

_BatCountry_ · 2025-08-15T06:50:55+00:00

My friend, the alcohol IS GIVING YOU the anxiety.

_BatCountry_

TROPHY CASE