Age 36
Ryan
Sober sinceExhausting. Everyone,everything, and everywhere I was involved with was a party.
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Sober Stories
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.
Age 46
Sarah
Sober sinceMy 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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Jo Cunningham
Sober sinceDrugs 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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Cassie S
Sober sinceIt 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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Noah
Sober sinceGroundhog 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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Ashley doherty
Sober sinceYears 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 29
Iván Perez
Sober sinceA I felt exhausted most of the time ,it definitely didn’t help my Anxiety and depression.
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Iván Perez
Sober sinceA I felt exhausted most of the time ,it definitely didn’t help my Anxiety and depression.
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Erika Weinert
Sober sinceIt 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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David
Sober sinceIt 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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Joe
Sober sinceIt just got the point enough was enough and I had to do something about my drinking
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