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Age 35
Clent
Sober sinceEveryday was a fighting battle with my addiction. I spent nearly 19 years focusing on the parties and getting wasted. My life was consumed of nothing but lost memories because I was too drun...
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Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in May — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
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Age 37
Hania
Sober sinceSomething dark seems to happen to me, the moment I use. I fall and fall, till I feel nothing but despair, shame and selfpity. And I continue, because I can't stop and actually just want to d...
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Age 37
Chelsey Glenn
Sober sinceWhat started out as a small town past time on weekends, followed me to the bigger cities. I moved from Illinois to Texas during my college years and drinking had only been a weekend ritual....
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Age 32
Scott Woolley
Sober sinceI’m often asked why I don’t drink, do I miss it, and will I drink again? After falling in love with fitness in 2012, I found drinking was hindering my progress in the gym, and also in my lif...
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Age 56
Paul Aragon
Sober sinceJuvinelle Halls, Jails, Institutions, Rehabilitation Centers, Outpatient Clinics, over 30 Sober Living homes.
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Age 59
Keith Wisor
Sober sinceAfter 35 years of hard drinking and several attempts to get sober I was about to give up on life.
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Age 38
Matthew Williams
Sober sinceWorked hard, played hard and rationalized everything I did because I only thought I was hurting myself.
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Age 56
Gary
Sober sinceI’m a War Veteran and the battles with depression and PTSD led to a lot of different addictions,with alcohol being the worse. I was “Switching seats on the Titanic” to try to cope with every...
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Age 61
Stephen
Sober sinceLife was hopeless. All I knew how to do was get, and stay wasted.
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Age 31
Jacob Jones
Sober sinceIn a word, hopeless. I had no category in my mind as to what a life of sobriety would be like. Further than that, it was even more unimaginable to think of enjoying that life.
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Age 36
Ryan
Sober sinceExhausting. Everyone,everything, and everywhere I was involved with was a party.
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