Filip hit rock bottom with depression, addiction, and suicidal thoughts after losing custody of his sons. The Wim Hof Method—breathing exercises and cold showers—pulled him out. Two years in, he quit antidepressants and ADHD meds, crediting roughly 80% of his recovery to the practice.
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I'm Filip. 2 years ago, I started to have serious psychological problems which were caused by my devastating lifestyle. Heavy depression, panic attacks, anxieties, and fears. In 2017, me and my wife divorced. Family was for me 100% of joy and happiness, and the loss of the family with my two beloved sons, 10 and 13 years now, totally broke me, broke me completely. And I stopped enjoying life. I didn't know the way out. I was still suffering. I felt wronged by my ex-wife, and I started to destroy myself consciously. 3 years of total destruction. Addiction on alcohol, huge doses of alcohol, hard drugs, amphetamine, cocaine, and gradually I added also gambling. I lost everything, all the property, my health, and I was just lying in my former house and waiting for the end. Thoughts of suicide ran through my head almost daily. And as a last resort, with the big help of my sister, I came to addiction treatment center of psychiatric hospital in Prague. And there I've got a Christmas present, a book, Iceman by Wim Hof. I've read the book in once and I was so fascinated by Wim's story and Something happened inside. I felt that Wim Hof Method could be right helper on my new wave, new path, the path from dependency to independency. I started to practice Wim Hof Method. Every morning, 4 rounds of breathing followed by a cold shower. It changed my life. The Wim Hof Method became an integral and crucial part of my life. I had 5 pills of antidepressants, pills of attention deficit disorder, order ADHD, and after 2 years I'm with no medication. There is also some therapeutic work, but the Wim Hof Method, it's 80%. So I feel that I want to pass my experiences and my story to the other people, including people addicted to alcohol and drugs, and it makes me really deep sense That's my story.
