00:00Hi, can you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your journey?
00:03Yes, I'm Harry, otherwise known as Ice Bath Harry, and I'm 33 from Portsmouth.
00:08I live in Waterlooville, and I'm the guy who takes an ice bath every day.
00:13And, yeah, I am a social media personality now, if you like.
00:20I used to work in double glazing, and found myself getting caught up with drugs and alcohol and addiction.
00:26And, yeah, I've been through hell and back, I think, it's fair to say.
00:33And, yeah, I've kind of turned my life around. I'm not in double glazing anymore.
00:37I work in the wellness space, and, yeah, I'm helping people with mental health.
00:41And taking an ice bath every day has really helped doing that.
00:45So, can you explain to me what active addiction is?
00:48Yes, active addiction is taking drugs and alcohol or any form of substance,
00:54any mood-altering, mind-changing substance, to try to change the way you feel
00:57because you're not happy with how you feel inside.
01:01I think a lot of it comes down to self-worth.
01:04And if you loved yourself, why would you treat yourself the way you treat yourself?
01:06You wouldn't.
01:07And, well, this is for me, in my experience.
01:10I was using drugs and alcohol to try to change the way I felt.
01:13And when I put the drugs and alcohol down, I looked at my own mental health
01:17and realised it wasn't as bad as I thought it was
01:20because the drugs were kind of covering the mental health issues that I had.
01:23It was making it worse.
01:25And, yeah, learning to love myself over the last 11 months
01:28has kind of brought me beautiful things.
01:31And I don't feel the need to use drugs and alcohol anymore
01:34to try to change the way I feel
01:35because I'm learning to be happy with who I am now.
01:40So, tell me about the ice baths
01:42and what made you start taking the ice baths?
01:44So, when you take drugs, as long as I did,
01:48your dopamine receptors in your brain that fire off happy hormones,
01:53they get blocked.
01:54And I was looking for ways to try to replicate dopamine
01:57and other ways to sort of make me feel happy.
02:00And I'd read or heard somewhere that ice baths, cold water exposure,
02:04gives you the same dopamine fix that a line of cocaine or a line of ketamine,
02:10it gives off the same dopamine fix that that does
02:12but it lasts four or five times as long.
02:15And, yeah, what the ice bath does
02:17is it replicates the hormones that I'm lacking
02:19due to prolonged drug abuse.
02:21And, yeah, I've done it every day for 337 days.
02:26We're closing in on a year now
02:27and I feel great every time I do it.
02:28And, yeah, that's kind of like what I'm known for now,
02:30Ice Bath Harry.
02:32So, tell me what the future holds for you.
02:35That is a good question.
02:37I don't know where I'm going to go
02:38after I get to a year clean.
02:40I'm probably going to take another ice bath.
02:43I'd like to get into going into rehabs with ice baths maybe
02:46or going into schools, you know,
02:49talking to young people about the dangers of addiction
02:51and drug abuse and where it can lead.
02:54Yeah, I'd like to set up an ice bath brand possibly.
02:56I've got loads of different options.
02:58Public speaking.
02:59I'm booked in for an event in September in Portsmouth
03:01talking about suicide prevention.
03:03It's called Let's Get Talking About Suicide,
03:05which I'm really excited about.
03:06And, yeah, I just want to promote cold water exposure
03:07and show people what's helped me
03:10in the hope that it helps them.
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