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A local author is sharing his experience with alcoholism with the hope of helping other men improve their mental wellness.

Dennis Kreba, behind the newly published Dennis On The Run: A men’s survival guide to lasting change, says he began drinking more when he began working from home during the height of COVID-19 restrictions.

One night, during a fight, a friend told him he had become too negative and that he needed distance.

“It wasn’t my shining moment. It was my lowest-of-the-low moment. And the next morning, I had a pit in my stomach that said, ‘We’re not OK. This is different. Something’s up,'” he told CTV News Edmonton on Sunday at his book’s launch party.

Realizing alcohol had “taken over” his life, Kreba decided to take a break from drinking – which has not ended almost four years later.

Alongside sobriety, he has found other healthy coping mechanisms: running, …

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