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🎬 Community Film Screening: I'm Jit and I'm an Alcoholic📅 Sunday, 26 July | 🕑 2:00–5:00 PMIn many families, we are taugh...
23/07/2026

🎬 Community Film Screening: I'm Jit and I'm an Alcoholic

📅 Sunday, 26 July | 🕑 2:00–5:00 PM

In many families, we are taught to protect our reputation, stay strong, and keep personal struggles within the home. But when it comes to addiction, silence can leave people feeling isolated and without support.

Behind many smiles are stories that are never told. Stories of pain, loss, recovery, and hope.

Join us for a screening of the award-winning documentary I'm Jit and I'm an Alcoholic—a powerful film that gives a voice to those whose experiences are too often hidden because of stigma and shame.

This is not just a film. It is an invitation to start conversations that many of us have avoided for far too long. By listening with compassion rather than judgement, we can help create a community where people feel safe to ask for help and where families feel supported instead of alone.

Together, we can begin to break the silence around addiction and replace it with understanding, empathy, and hope.

Everyone is welcome.

📍 Venue:
Shree Sarvodaya Samaj
39 Highfield Street Leicester LE2 1AD

📅 Sunday, 26 July 🕑 2:00–5:00 PM (film starts at 2.30pm)

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25/06/2026

A privilege to be asked 🙏🏽🙌🏽🎥

We’re absolutely delighted to announce our second Guest Judge: Jit Chauhan

Jit is a dedicated recovery advocate from Leicestershire and the Director of Free In Recovery, the grassroots, peer-led support service. After overcoming a severe, long-term battle with alcoholism and personal trauma, Jit turned his lived experience into a lifeline for others, dedicating his life to helping people achieve sobriety.

His vital work focuses heavily on breaking the taboos, stigma, and shame surrounding addiction, particularly within South Asian and Gujarati communities.

Jit is also the subject of the raw, award-winning autobiographical short documentary ’I’m Jit and I’m an Alcoholic,’ which powerfully explores his descent into addiction and ultimate recovery.

We are deeply honoured to have his unique perspective, passion, and grassroots expertise shaping this year’s festival.

Let’s give a huge RSFF welcome to Jit! 🌟👋

Free In Recovery Sobriety Films UK Freed Up Adfam Turning Point Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Leicester City Council Project 6 Waythrough

07/05/2026

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06/05/2026

Regular use of p**n often causes depression, dopamine imbalance, lethargy, social and emotional dysfunctions, and even erectile dysfunction.© Addiction Actually

We say ′′ use ′′ of p**n, because its very like a harmful drug.

P**n use affects the brain exactly like drugs.

A brief, superficial scientific explanation is that watching p**n creates an excessive amount of dopamine in the brain, that ricochets around the body like a pinball.

This leads to rapid and intense gratification, but then falls, plummeting like a rollercoaster in freefall, leading to a dopamine deficit, a period of depression and lethargy - which leads us to more ....and more and more.

To become a little more esoteric, or**sm can be the most generative, healing, creative, or the most draining and exhausting act.

When you're in contact with a partner, you exchange energy, you bond with each other.

When you're connected to an image on a screen, you send your life force outwards and away from yourself.

It really is s*x with ourselves. Which may be okay - in moderation. But addicts don't or can't moderate. Loss of control is the issue, as with drugs/alcohol.

The question is, where is this energy going?

Who or what feeds on the almost incomprehensible amount of s*xual energy millions of people send to ethers every day?

It only exists because it's fed in abundance... what do you think you're bound to (addiction means to adhere to) to when you ma******te with that p**nstar?

Why do you think this is so hard to stop?

Think of the scene in 'The Matrix' where Neo awakens to see thousands of comatose human beings, becoming food for dark forces.

This is the perfect representation of what we're describing.

Isn't it interesting that p**n is almost the only thing we can consume for free?

Like any good drug dealer, we are lured with a free sample.

Nothing is free - you become another food source for a parasitic entity.

Instead of arguing and discussing mutual origins and moral issues maybe we can start to see that we were all equally played by a much bigger and relatively invisible force from behind the scenes - living off our confusion and conflicts.

P**n itself isn't the enemy, it isn't even harmful. moderation harms fewer

However this page is all about addiction and all addictions are harmful in different ways to self and others.

Think of the time, the opportunity cost of what doesn't get done..the not showing up in relationships.. and the rest..

© AddictionActually 2026. All rights reserved.

**naddiction

27/04/2026

There was a time when I didn’t think about consequences. I just drank… used… repeated.

Every day smaller than the last.

Every night darker.

That life didn’t just hurt me—it erased me.

I lost things I can’t get back. Time. People. Pieces of myself I don’t even remember clearly anymore.

I wouldn’t wish that existence on anyone.

I’ve been free from substances for 11 years now… and I know exactly how fragile that is. Because for me, there’s no such thing as a small relapse. No reset. No second chance.
If I go back… I don’t come back.

So I live with that truth. Every day. Quietly. Carefully.
I remember what it was. I remember what it did.

And whatever it takes to stay away from it… I do it.”

🎥 Snippet from the award-winning film - I’m Jit and I’m an alcoholic

Extended Trailer: link in bio

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