Age 30
Kasey
Sober sinceHell. I was alive but not living. Never took care of myself. I cared about nothing except not being sober. I wouldn't care if I woke up the next day. I'd go to sleep early morning and would...
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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 32
Stephanie
Sober sinceJust the thought of getting sober was so scary to me. I've been an addict for as long as I could remember. Drugs is all I really knew and was comfortable with. But I was at the point in my l...
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Age 31
Theodore Jack
Sober sinceTerrible! My family left which turned into binge drinking and sold whatever had any value, just to keep drinking and trying to fill that huge piece missing in me (my family). There has been...
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Age 50
Patrick McGraw
Sober sinceMy life was unraveling, loosing my family, my dignity and almost my life.
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Age 31
Micalah
Sober sinceI was miserable. I was always in a state of chaos. Whether it be emotional, mental or physical chaos. I had moments of happiness, but was never really happy. I always wanted to escape from m...
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Age 35
Shawn Talaski
Sober sincePure hell. I hated myself, I hated my relationship, and I hated my life.
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Age 34
Bronwen Mulligan
Sober sinceI lost myself. My emotions were so intense when I drank. It always felt like the world was smushing me. I drank to feel nothing but ended up feeling everything to the extreme. I just stopped...
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Age 53
Leigh Ann
Sober sinceI drank, I blacked out and then would do it again the next day. I started drinking in my early teens and did not stop until my sobriety date. Why? Because I thought I was a normal drinker. D...
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Age 59
Kim Beus
Sober sinceI thought I was going crazy, and I checked myself in to a clinic.
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Age 46
Gilbet
Sober sinceWhen I wàs using I put everything to the side I hurt everyone around me. Nothing mattered to me but getting high and drunk.
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Age 49
Jason
Sober sinceIt was horrible because I lost myself to addiction and I was the last one to realize it.
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