Age 34Since 10 / 22 / 2017
John Lysaght
I was in total denial I was a alcoholic for years but eventually it caught up with me and nearly cost me everything
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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 31Since 08 / 12 / 2017
Jill
It was hell...my life was hell...I felt like I lived to get high, and I had to get high to live...
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Age 38Since 02 / 13 / 2011
Sarah Jetty
I was black out drunk 5 nights a week in a codependent relationship. I spent the majority of my paycheck in the bars and on a nightly 12 pack. I was mentally and emotionally exhausted. I was...
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Age 43Since 09 / 01 / 2012
Michael Hughes
Growing up with an alcoholic father I had vowed to never drink. Seems that genetics had other things in store for me. My life was a constant haze and I remember thinking about when I could g...
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Age 35Since 06 / 01 / 2010
Michael
Depressing. I lost a decade of my young adult years to binge drinking.
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Age 31Since 08 / 27 / 2015
Thomas Winkelman
Demoralizing and hopeless like going through life being a fraction of who I was capable of being. 17 years living lost and broken only to be saved by Grace and freed from the self made priso...
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Age 47Since 11 / 30 / 2017
Jeff
I had tried for 30 years to get sober and make it stick. I went to my first meeting at the age of 16. When I was younger my drinking and drugging was chaotic and resulted in frequent stays i...
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Age 35Since 08 / 29 / 2018
Jennifer
It was depressing and debilitating. Alcohol made me hate life and myself. It made me feel small and insignificant. It did everything I though it wouldn’t do. It increased my social anxiety a...
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