Age 68
Ron
Sober sinceRock bottom kept lying to myself, then I heard about the 2 brown bag method. One bag has a mirror, the other a moist baby ruth candy bar in a zip lock bag. Everytime I got the urge to drink...
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Sober Stories
Real people, real recovery. Honest accounts of what it was like, what happened, and what life looks like now — shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
Age 54
Sharon
Sober sinceMy life was consumed by alcohol, when I wasn’t during , I was thinking of drink. I was unhappy, confrontational, cheeky and very disconnected from life, but I didn’t know any of this at the...
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Age 85
Christopher W Hoyt
Sober sinceBecause of drinking, by 1983 my life was totally unmanageable. I was divorced after a 24 year marriage in 1982; the rehab center I voluntarily entered in 1982 expelled me for violating their...
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Age 18
Mariahna Camacho
Sober sinceIt was terrifying and unbearable I never thought that is was possible to have a good life or to love myself, to accomplish anything that I put my mind to!!
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Age 35
robert martino
Sober sincei was a bender, for nearly 20yrs of my life i repeated the cycle. work, then play, play consisting of drinking as much as i could, only to then use cocaine to continue going long after i sho...
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Age 44
Lisa
Sober sinceWhen it started it was fun, but when you start losing family and friends because all you wanna do is get high, it's not fun anymore
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Age 45
Amber
Sober sinceI became addicted at age 15, and battled for 12 years with a meth addiction where I lost my childhood, I llost my kids and it nearly killed me
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Age 46
Cindy merlino
Sober sinceWent from taking drugs to get up to taking drugs to sleep I wasn’t a functional addict I pretty much ran myself into the ground
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Age 36
Richard Thompson
Sober sinceMy life has been a challenging journey marked by an ongoing battle with addiction spanning over 18 years. My struggles began in high school, where drug and alcohol use became a means of esca...
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Age 47
Cori Brennan Golanowski
Sober sinceIt all controlled my life. I was self medicating child hood traumas, and wired in addictions since I found drinking as a teen, with out knowing it until I had a complete breakdown and learne...
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Age 33
Joseph Cunningham
Sober sinceWhen you can stop, you don’t want to. And when you want to stop, you can’t. It's a vicious cycle.
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