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>>9253405
Yeah alcohol killed him in his 50's.
There's a lecture on YouTube he did named "outwitting the devil", which while subtle, drawn-out and not immediately obvious, gives some excellent advice on how to tackle psychological addiction. 'Just do it without deciding to do it'; without thinking about it, that's the only surefire way to achieve it. Otherwise your constant thinking about it will eventually provoke the devil in you to give in to temptation, is essentially what he says.
He uhm, phrases it rather better than I can. The man was a genius. Love all of his stuff.
Shame it didn't work for him, but he did also say that it's better to live a short life doing what you love, than a long life lived miserably.

>>7167447
aw mate, i'm sorry. desu this scares me. sobriety to me seems like a glistening ray of hope by which my problems might be resolved... but russell brand, being the fucking lunatic that he is, is a perfect example of this simply not being the case.
ever listened to alan watts? that man is a fucking hero. helped me no end.
takes a loooong fucking time to kinda 'get it', but this isn't a bad vid with which to start. i've listened to hundreds of hours of his stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKuuguZAeO8
...until i found out that he was an alchie and died aged 58 because he too could simply not kick the booze.
eckhart tolle (while a bit naff desu, and NOTHING compared with watts) might be a nice, easy intro to 'mindfulness'. it's a commonly used method by addiction therapists and all you need to do to access it, is go to youtube.
also recommend teal swan. she's a pretty smart girl... but clearly a charlatan. has a few interesting things to say, but generally i only watch her because i want to insert my genitalia into hers.

like any of this stuff and wanna take it further? mate, read the corpus hermeticum. it blew my fucking mind. and before you dismiss this stuff as airy fairy nonsense, realise that richard dawkins has said "there may be something to this", and that isaac newton, a man whose genius made even einstein look like a fag, was also hugely interested in hermetecism.

good luck bro. hope you feel better mate.