Age 36
Gene Caraker
Sober sinceLike being a prisoner in my own mind. Every day was darkness. Tired of living, tired of being a husband and father. Couldn't function each day without my poison.
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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 54
Ralf Friedrichs, ABOC
Sober sinceLife as a drunk was like living at the bottom of a bottle, always looking up and never finding a way out. That was up until June 22, 2013 when I looked up and saw light shining through the n...
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Age 46
Emily Copps
Sober sinceIt was bewildering, humiliating, paralyzing. It was ugly and painful and disgusting. It was ultimately too big a burden - the lying and cheating and stealing, eventually the sweating and vom...
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Age 47
Richie
Sober sinceSelfish and self-centered to the extreme, driven by a hundred forms of fear, self-delusion, self-seeking, and self-pity.
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Age 63
Charlie Radiola
Sober sinceStarted out in typical fashion, trying booze at the age of 11. Liked what it did for me as far as feeling confident and the coolest guy in the world
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Age 53
Teddie
Sober sinceDrinking since I was 12 years old put me in a tail spin for many years. Black-outs and waking up in scared places with scary people put my life in danger in so many ways.
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Age 22
Maggie H.
Sober sinceI was a big party girl and social butterfly. My drinking got bad my senior year of high school. By the time college rolled around, I was drinking almost every day, blacking out every night,...
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Age 56
Stacy Anderson
Sober sinceDid drugs most of my life and started drinking in my 30's.
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Age 33
Stephanie
Sober sinceI had so much fun in the early days, but I started to rely on alcohol for comfort and to get away from feeling. I drank to be social. I used it to hide my loneliness, low self esteem, and ba...
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