Age 53Since 08 / 02 / 2004
Bill
Living 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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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 39Since 06 / 19 / 2011
Lissa
Life 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 35Since 04 / 10 / 2010
Susie
I 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 35Since 06 / 04 / 2015
Jackie
I 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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Age 55Since 09 / 09 / 2013
Phill Odom
I started drinking and using at the ripe old age of 14. Trying to fit in to belong. I did not seem to fit in anywhere or with anyone. When I was drunk or high I felt like I fit in, but the f...
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Age 28Since 06 / 01 / 2013
Kara
I started drinking and using at a very young age. It was a way of life, drinking everyday to forget about life's stresses and the bad days. Drink to forget, use to get through the day. Every...
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Age 52Since 09 / 01 / 2014
Dawn
I was emotionally, physically and spiritually broken. I was lost and was deathly afraid of where my addiction was taking me. It was only a matter of time before I would lose everything.
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Age 37Since 10 / 16 / 2009
Travis Kestell
Was always searching for something that wasn't there. Thought I could find happiness.
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Age 47Since 01 / 21 / 2011
Imelda Muckenschnabl
Years of constant pain, shame, inadequacy, sketchiness, emptiness, sadness, depression..
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Age 67Since 11 / 28 / 1998
Steffen Ipland
I started using drugs when I was about eighteen years old. At different times, when one type of drug would get me in trouble, I would switch to another. I would do anything as long as it wou...
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Age 45Since 05 / 25 / 2014
Erik Borrell
I struggled with addiction to methamphetamine for 20 years. I was hooked from the first time I tried it. I wanted to quit many times but for some reason always ended up thinking I could use...
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