Recovery, in their own words

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.

Rich 36 3 / 18 / 2018
Age 36Since 03 / 18 / 2018

Rich

It all happen that fast ,one drug lead me to another drug ,and so one ,I got so caught up,that I lost my love for myself, and with that I lost my love ones too

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Alan L. 35 3 / 20 / 2016
Age 35Since 03 / 20 / 2016

Alan L.

I began drug use and drinking at an early age, and became regular by my early teenage years. I was a kid who never felt like I fit in anywhere, and I struggled with a diagnosis of Bipolar Di...

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Alan L. 35 3 / 20 / 2016
Age 35Since 03 / 20 / 2016

Alan L.

I began drug use and drinking at an early age, and became regular by my early teenage years. I was a kid who never felt like I fit in anywhere, and I struggled with a diagnosis of Bipolar Di...

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Rich 36 3 / 18 / 2018
Age 36Since 03 / 18 / 2018

Rich

I got lost ,i was so lost that I forgot what it was like to love myself, and when that happen i lost the ones my loved ones ,and I only lost them because I couldn’t love them,until I loved m...

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Debi 40 3 / 17 / 2014
Age 40Since 03 / 17 / 2014

Debi

I was a bartender for 15 yrs doing the late night thing...going out after work every night giving the money that I had just made back to another bartender from the opposite side of the bar....

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Jamie 28 3 / 21 / 2018
Age 28Since 03 / 21 / 2018

Jamie

It was a stuggle to wake up most days so hungover and blacked out from the night before not knowing what happened and what kind of trouble I caused.

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Peggy Riggs 41 3 / 12 / 2003
Age 41Since 03 / 12 / 2003

Peggy Riggs

It was irrefutably the darkest days of my life. I was left broke, alone, confused, regrettably ashamed, saddened,damaged and most of all I felt like the scum of the earth underneath the ocea...

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Lauren 35 3 / 16 / 2014
Age 35Since 03 / 16 / 2014

Lauren

Sobriety, to me, is like a relationship. If you don't put in the work then the results will show that.

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Ali 36 3 / 26 / 2016
Age 36Since 03 / 26 / 2016

Ali

Dark, scary and lonely. Life was spiraling out of control and I couldn’t grasp onto anything that wasn’t alcohol related.

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