Age 31Since 03 / 17 / 2022
Morgan Smith
It was pure hell. I was a slave to meth from the age of 19. I had experimented with other drugs as well and by the end of my last (and hopefully my last ever) relapse I was IV using both met...
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March Archives
Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in March — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
Featured story Age 45· Sober since 03 / 01 / 2013
Kevin Forsberg
Awful and just terrible. Sickly and out of my mind. Drinking 7 nights a Week sometimes all day until was blacked out. Was losing my family and possessions cause of it.
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Age 54Since 03 / 10 / 2017
Sharon
My life was consumed by alcohol, when I wasn’t during , I was thinking of drink. I was unhappy, confrontational, cheeky and very disconnected from life, but I didn’t know any of this at the...
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Age 35Since 03 / 06 / 2023
robert martino
i was a bender, for nearly 20yrs of my life i repeated the cycle. work, then play, play consisting of drinking as much as i could, only to then use cocaine to continue going long after i sho...
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Age 55Since 03 / 01 / 1995
Victor
My life was surrounded around drinking from the first time I started (around 13 to 14). I didn't know or want anything else. I lost interest in school, sports and all else that didn't have a...
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Age 29Since 03 / 24 / 2022
Connor
I was suffering badly from untreated alcoholism. I ended up isolated, alone & at my worst found myself drinking two bottle’s of spirits per day at my flat. It was absolutely hell on earth...
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Age 63Since 03 / 27 / 1983
Denise
It was an isolated and scary life High anxiety and at an early age I used alcohol to cope and navigate through life it was normal to drink in my family However I had an instant allergy and o...
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Age 45Since 03 / 23 / 2018
Bo Blackmon
You lose sight when the fun becomes necessity and then what follows is hell on earth. I was always alone, depressed, hiding, smoking crack afraid to be seen. I hated my self and I judge me h...
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Age 34Since 03 / 12 / 2022
Ashley
I was an exhausted monster. I hated waking up so I never went to sleep and when I did sleep it was for days at a time. I missed so many things with my kids and my daughter carried the respon...
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Age 59Since 03 / 09 / 2008
Mike Mather
I drank for 30 years alcoholically, the last 10, daily to pass out or run out. The last 8 years I was on various couches. When I was 42, my girlfriend took me to AA.
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Age 69Since 03 / 02 / 1991
Frank Turck
I was lost and couldn't see my way out of the Merry go Round. I was a pathological lier and a cheat. I used to think I was the world's anger monster.
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Age 46Since 03 / 25 / 2018
Chuck
Sobriety is the best feeling ever! I feel like a completely different and much better person.
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