Recovery, in their own words
May Archives
Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in May — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
Featured story 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 64
Stephen A.
Sober sinceMultiple decade enslavement to substances. I started at an early age,(11) and did not stop until age 40. I had no hope no life, no reason to exist.
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Age 49
Carol
Sober sinceInitially drinking took away my feelings of inadequacy and my insecurities. By the end I was hopeless, isolated depressed and suicidal.
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Age 58
Gary C
Sober sincewas out of control and I was addicted to several things at once,alcohol,opiates,stealing and others. It was like " switching seats on the Titanic and I was drowning each and every day trying...
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Age 63
Peter J Marshall
Sober sinceHated myself.. shaved with an electric razor so I didn't have to look at myself in a mirror and see I was dead man walking
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Age 47
Emily P.
Sober sinceI never imagined I would be sober. I’m still surprised. I drank every night, never having any plans after 5pm because that was for me and beer only.
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Age 46
Tim
Sober sinceI was 44 years old. 360 pounds with morbidly high blood pressure. I was on my 3rd hospitalization from alcohol induced complications. It turned out to be the greatest achievement of my lifet...
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