Age 46Since 05 / 25 / 2009
Kelly
It was lonely, with temporary happiness and a world full of shame, insecure about myself and what others thought of me, and grief. Uncertainty surrounding me all the time.
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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 37Since 12 / 09 / 2015
Stephanie Lynn
I have lived in active addiction since I was 19 years old. I spent 18 years struggling to break free. It started out with a simple ear infection. I went to the emergency room in the middle o...
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Age 42Since 11 / 20 / 1999
Katie Lang
Alcohol gave me a very euphoric feeling but I'd always crash into a deep dark depression and self-loathing afterwards. It got to the point where I'd black out every time I drank and that was...
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Age 30Since 10 / 01 / 2009
Kasey
Hell. I was alive but not living. Never took care of myself. I cared about nothing except not being sober. I wouldn't care if I woke up the next day. I'd go to sleep early morning and would...
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Age 32Since 02 / 20 / 2015
Stephanie
Just the thought of getting sober was so scary to me. I've been an addict for as long as I could remember. Drugs is all I really knew and was comfortable with. But I was at the point in my l...
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Age 31Since 04 / 14 / 2014
Theodore Jack
Terrible! My family left which turned into binge drinking and sold whatever had any value, just to keep drinking and trying to fill that huge piece missing in me (my family). There has been...
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Age 50Since 11 / 20 / 2006
Patrick McGraw
My life was unraveling, loosing my family, my dignity and almost my life.
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Age 31Since 10 / 04 / 2015
Micalah
I was miserable. I was always in a state of chaos. Whether it be emotional, mental or physical chaos. I had moments of happiness, but was never really happy. I always wanted to escape from m...
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Age 35Since 03 / 02 / 2009
Shawn Talaski
Pure hell. I hated myself, I hated my relationship, and I hated my life.
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Age 34Since 10 / 10 / 2011
Bronwen Mulligan
I lost myself. My emotions were so intense when I drank. It always felt like the world was smushing me. I drank to feel nothing but ended up feeling everything to the extreme. I just stopped...
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Age 53Since 11 / 23 / 2009
Leigh Ann
I drank, I blacked out and then would do it again the next day. I started drinking in my early teens and did not stop until my sobriety date. Why? Because I thought I was a normal drinker. D...
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