Recovery, in their own words
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 34
Sabrina
Sober sinceBeing a drunk and an addict before I got sober was, a lie. You think when you're using, you are at the top of the highest mountain and everything is beautiful.
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Age 29
David Charles
Sober sinceTerrible. Spending any money I had on going to the bar and buying carryouts, and drinking on my own.
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Age 50
David
Sober sinceIt was like living in something beyond hell, the desperation, pain and constant desire to die was my journey at that time.
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Age 35
Marti Ann
Sober sinceIt was never a thing to do for fun, it was to tolerate life and to deal with the pain and heart ache. It only got me further and further into the darkest place I have ever experienced. Somet...
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Age 33
Vanessa Day
Sober sinceI was an absent mother and an unreliable wife. Everything I did, and everything I thought, revolved around alcohol. It was exhausting. Most people in my life avoided me at all costs, and rig...
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Age 53
Bill
Sober sinceLiving hell with my inner demons. I could not stop. I went to prison, mental hospital I just was insane being so powerless. I ruined relationships jobs and more importantly myself.
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Age 39
Lissa
Sober sinceLife was horrible. I layed in my bed in isolation for days at a time drinking my life away. My family didn't want anything to do with me, friends had given up. I had been fighting to get sob...
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Age 35
Susie
Sober sinceI was a tangled up mess, desperately trying to escape my fears. I was full of anger, had an extremely long list of resentments, and I was being suffocated with self-inflicted shame.
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Age 35
Jackie
Sober sinceI was lost hurting and turned to drinking to fill the void. Over six years I turned from drinking after work with friends to drinking in the morning before work, on lunch breaks and into all...
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