Age 44Since 05 / 13 / 2016
Lisa
When it started it was fun, but when you start losing family and friends because all you wanna do is get high, it's not fun anymore
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May Archives
Recovery stories from people whose sobriety date falls in May — real accounts shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
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Josh Abel
It was hard on me to watch a good friend to go through the addiction with not much help.
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Age 64Since 05 / 12 / 2000
Stephen A.
Multiple decade enslavement to substances. I started at an early age,(11) and did not stop until age 40. I had no hope no life, no reason to exist.
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Age 49Since 05 / 24 / 1997
Carol
Initially drinking took away my feelings of inadequacy and my insecurities. By the end I was hopeless, isolated depressed and suicidal.
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Age 58Since 05 / 21 / 2007
Gary C
was out of control and I was addicted to several things at once,alcohol,opiates,stealing and others. It was like " switching seats on the Titanic and I was drowning each and every day trying...
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Age 63Since 05 / 02 / 1989
Peter J Marshall
Hated myself.. shaved with an electric razor so I didn't have to look at myself in a mirror and see I was dead man walking
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Age 47Since 05 / 07 / 2018
Emily P.
I never imagined I would be sober. I’m still surprised. I drank every night, never having any plans after 5pm because that was for me and beer only.
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Age 46Since 05 / 28 / 2020
Tim
I was 44 years old. 360 pounds with morbidly high blood pressure. I was on my 3rd hospitalization from alcohol induced complications. It turned out to be the greatest achievement of my lifet...
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