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Age 35Since 01 / 11 / 2020
Matt Haselhorst
I was not a binge drinker, but I was a consistent drinker. Every night typically, I would have Whiskey and watch the game. Everything was negatively affected by my drinking, my health and my...
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Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in January — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
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Age 30Since 01 / 08 / 2018
Sadie
I had gotten so used to putting alcohol first before everything. I didn't care about my health, I didn't care about my relationships, I just cared about when I'd get drunk next.
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Age 29Since 01 / 19 / 2019
Hayley
It was fun - until it wasn't. My teens and twenties were spent partying and learning to socialize with alcohol. It was when I realized I couldn't be social without it that I had a problem.
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Age 36Since 01 / 12 / 2013
Christine W
Heartbreaking. I was broken, I was breaking the hearts of everyone that tried to love me. I had lied so much that I was just avoiding everyone so I didn’t have to try to remember the lies I...
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Age 59Since 01 / 04 / 2020
David
A repeating dream of fear, drinking, and remorse. I lived a secret life that I couldn’t escape.
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Age 61Since 01 / 26 / 1984
Ginna
I was angry and lost. I drank daily and woke up every morning hungover. I had no one, I had both isolated my self and rejected anyone that had loved me, yet that is what I desired; to be lov...
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Age 30Since 01 / 15 / 2012
Corey Warren
I was living in hell. We all go through challenges in our lives. For me it was being 17 years old, strung out on heroin. Every morning i was sticking a needle in my arm, numbing and pushing...
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Age 49Since 01 / 31 / 2011
Abbie
I don't know the words to describe Hell (burning on fire on the inside) full of disappointment, shame, depression, loneliness and rage. I was crying in the shadows but smiling in the sun. I...
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Age 55Since 01 / 02 / 2020
Rob Bonstin
I drank every day. Not all day, most days I’d wait till 5pm or a bit later. But I would drink by myself, more often than not I’d be hungover the next day only to do it all over again. I’d tr...
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Age 41Since 01 / 09 / 2019
Anne E.
Living the life with an active addiction to meth was like living a life in hell. In a matter of what seemed like the blink of an eye, your entire life was falling apart. Jobless, no place to...
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Age 39Since 01 / 22 / 2000
Dave Breslin
Jan 22,2000;Drunk since New Years,staring into a mirror at a younger,weaker,broken and empty version of myself,I had a feeling that I had to do something different.I haven’t drank since. A f...
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