Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in August — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
I had no job, no car, and no home. No one would answer my calls or let me in the door. I was extremely depressed and suicidal. Even high I couldn't find peace or happiness. I had tried to be...
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I hated being drunk. But that is how I dealt with my problems.
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Miserable. I went back out after 8 years. Lost everything ended living couch to couch and in a shelter.
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I was addicted to pain pills for almost 20 years. It ruined every dream I had for my life. I lost my dream job, went to prison and pretty much all my friends and family.
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I started drinking to cope with anxiety and to fit in. I had extreme blackouts from a very young age and things just got worse and worse as my addiction progressed.
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Numbing myself into a shadow world, just to get through daily life and avoiding all feelings. Never progressing just barely maintaining.
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Everyday was like the most miserable version of Groundhog Day. I hid the amount of alcohol I consumed from everyone and stayed in denial for years. Waking up after nights out trying to remem...
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It was hell...my life was hell...I felt like I lived to get high, and I had to get high to live...
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Demoralizing and hopeless like going through life being a fraction of who I was capable of being. 17 years living lost and broken only to be saved by Grace and freed from the self made priso...
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