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Age 29Since 03 / 24 / 2018
Steve
Drugs and Alcohol consumed my every action. I lost interest in many activities, relationships, and family. 24/7 being impaired or sick from not having any. So lost in life
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Real people, real recovery. Honest accounts of what it was like, what happened, and what life looks like now — shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
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Age 53Since 11 / 11 / 2018
David Morrison
My life was becoming small, predictable and limited. The routine of escape became a prison.
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Age 32Since 10 / 07 / 2015
Jena
Life as an alcoholic was like life with my toxic best friend. We did everything together. We ruined my life together.
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Age 30Since 07 / 08 / 2017
Lauren
Alcohol was my drug of choice, my #1 coping mechanism from the age of 16. It was my escape. It was how I ran from my emotions and numbed myself from pain and suffering. My disease progressiv...
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Age 36Since 01 / 28 / 2018
Billy
I drank because I was depressed and I was depressed because I drank. This led down a dark path of questioning life and reasons for living. I have a wonderful wife and two kids and people wou...
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Age 36Since 10 / 21 / 2019
Marc
Alcohol is my obsession that recycled itself daily. It was an obsession that gradually gripped every aspect of my days, affecting it for the worse. It fueled my mental health issues and comp...
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Age Oct 18Since 02 / 17 / 2011
Tina
I was hopeless , lost and believed in nothing. Carry all my hurts habits and hang ups around knowing nothing else. In prisoned ,lost my kids ,broke, I was insane!
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Age 64Since 01 / 23 / 1988
Michelle Myers
The Disco Drunk left the Party to realize Life is Life on its own real terms...
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Age 40Since 12 / 03 / 2018
Kyle
It was Absolute Hell, I was on the very edge of losing everything including my sanity and almost my life. I started drinking at 14 and I really never stopped...Until now that is
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Age 27Since 12 / 30 / 2013
Nikita
Pain, lies, betreyal, fear, stealing and selfloathing. I hated my life, but didn’t have the tools to make it better. I kept losing everything I had. My son was taken, I got beatings on a dai...
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Age 52Since 03 / 21 / 2015
Jeff
I was completely off the rails. Struggling to control it but the remorse and regret for my actions was brutal. I had begun to gauge how bad the previous night was by whether my wife smiled a...
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