Age 37Since 04 / 03 / 2018
Stacey Hill
I was going to die one of two ways, the drugs were going to kill me or I was going to kill myself.... I didn't want to live that way anymore!
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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 43Since 12 / 16 / 2017
Brent L.
It was homelessness, joblessness hell. No one to turn too cause I wasn't anyone anybody wanted to have around. My addiction was my God.
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Age 37Since 10 / 12 / 2014
Dustin Z. Dillow
Upon living through everything I have in my life, war, broken relationships, a failed marriage, depression, homelessness, I had given myself an excuse to become something I am not. I was a b...
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Age 22Since 08 / 10 / 2018
Colin H
I had a compulsive addiction behavior called sexual addiction. It was destroying my life both mentally and physically. It harmed my relationships and friendships with others. I was addicted...
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Age 50Since 09 / 17 / 2005
Karen
Life was miserable and dark. I hated myself and was spiralling out of control. Too many black-outs and not knowing what I did the night before. My husband and children were suffering due to...
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Age 18Since 11 / 12 / 2017
Ashlee
At first I thought it was fun and I was just being a teenager. My addiction turned into this black hole. There was never a moment I wasn’t high or thinking about getting high.
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Age 41Since 03 / 12 / 2003
Peggy Riggs
It was irrefutably the darkest days of my life. I was left broke, alone, confused, regrettably ashamed, saddened,damaged and most of all I felt like the scum of the earth underneath the ocea...
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Age 17Since 02 / 08 / 2018
Andrew
Horrible I don’t want to be that person anymore I have 8 Months clean at 12am
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Age 34Since 10 / 07 / 2017
Aaron Dominguez
I couldn't lie enough. I couldn't hide enough. I couldn't drink enough. I couldn't be angry enough. I couldn't manipulate enough. I couldn't hate myself enough.
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Age 42Since 01 / 27 / 2016
Tommy
I started drinking at 15 and by 17 it was an every day thing. I took my first line of cocaine at 23 and never drank again without it. At 26 after losing my job on Wall Street I entered my fi...
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Age 30Since 10 / 10 / 2015
Taylor Reichelt
Absolutely horrible I woke up at 27 hopeless and strung out on heroin meth and crack cocaine.
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