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Age 36Since 05 / 25 / 2017
Ryan
Exhausting. Everyone,everything, and everywhere I was involved with was a party.
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Age 46Since 08 / 20 / 2012
Sarah
My first drunk was when I was 14. I loved how it made me feel. Numb. For years I drank to escape myself; my depression and anxiety and childhood trauma. For a long time I was a "high functio...
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Age 38Since 11 / 23 / 2014
Cody White Bear
I was repeating a lifestyle that I hated growing up in.
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Age 29Since 07 / 01 / 2019
Jo Cunningham
Drugs are just the devil in disguise.. it makes you feel like you're on top of the world, when in reality, you couldn't be any lower. It's losing everything you have ever loved for something...
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Age 45Since 09 / 13 / 2006
Cassie S
It was fun for awhile..until it became a must..when I had to have something in my body every day..I remember how that sucked so bad.
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Age 28Since 10 / 29 / 2017
Noah
Groundhog Day...I sang in a band and thought I was on top of the world. One totalled vehicle and a DUI meh, no biggie it was by chance and mostly because I was messing with the radio, right!...
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Age 29Since 08 / 19 / 2017
Ashley doherty
Years of insanity from the first drink I picked up at the age of 13. Drinking till I blacked out every single time, trying every drug that I came across and abusing the ones I liked. Got to...
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Age 29Since 07 / 04 / 2019
Iván Perez
A I felt exhausted most of the time ,it definitely didn’t help my Anxiety and depression.
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Iván Perez
A I felt exhausted most of the time ,it definitely didn’t help my Anxiety and depression.
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Age 39Since 07 / 17 / 2018
Erika Weinert
It is that feeling you get as you turn off a light switch in the dark. You feel like there is something lurking in the shadows, but you know that it cannot hurt you unless you let it.
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Age 56Since 09 / 11 / 1989
David
It was like being trapped in a box, and being so alone, although I lived in one of the biggest cities in the world. Even though I was in a relationship, had friends and went to work every da...
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Age 35Since 03 / 05 / 2019
Joe
It just got the point enough was enough and I had to do something about my drinking
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