Age 64Since 05 / 21 / 2016
Holly S
No focus on the future, no incentive, no friends and no hope.
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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 35Since 05 / 28 / 2017
Clent
Everyday 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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Age 37Since 05 / 27 / 2019
Hania
Something 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 37Since 05 / 06 / 2017
Chelsey Glenn
What 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 32Since 05 / 20 / 2015
Scott Woolley
I’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 56Since 05 / 15 / 2006
Paul Aragon
Juvinelle Halls, Jails, Institutions, Rehabilitation Centers, Outpatient Clinics, over 30 Sober Living homes.
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Age 59Since 05 / 14 / 2009
Keith Wisor
After 35 years of hard drinking and several attempts to get sober I was about to give up on life.
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Age 38Since 05 / 17 / 2010
Matthew Williams
Worked hard, played hard and rationalized everything I did because I only thought I was hurting myself.
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Age 56Since 05 / 22 / 2007
Gary
I’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 61Since 05 / 12 / 2000
Stephen
Life was hopeless. All I knew how to do was get, and stay wasted.
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Age 31Since 05 / 16 / 2016
Jacob Jones
In 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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