Age 33Since 02 / 26 / 2023
Joseph Cunningham
When you can stop, you don’t want to. And when you want to stop, you can’t. It's a vicious cycle.
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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 36Since 04 / 04 / 2021
Hilary McLeod
My husband and I stayed drunk and high since the summer of 2014. It was so blinding how out of control we were. The saddest point of my life is that I was actually happy that I was able to w...
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Age 56Since 07 / 02 / 2017
Rita
I lost myself thinking that life was all about partying. We grew up in alcoholic homes so we thought it was normal.
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Age 54Since 06 / 25 / 2007
Mike H.
I was hopelessly addicted to crack cocaine and saw no way out I became homeless and lost my family.
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Age 36Since 11 / 02 / 2021
Elliott
Life is horrible, drinking drinking a 12 pack a night was 7 to 12 shots every day since I was 18 waking up with the shakes dry heaving. I was thinking about when I was going to get my next d...
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Age 66Since 11 / 06 / 2011
Ruben Allen
I got out of a bad habit of not caring and wanting to drink my feelings away!!!!
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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 59Since 10 / 10 / 2004
Gina
I was an alcoholic at an early age. A child of alcoholic parents, I learned to handle the disfunction in the same way they did. I used to steal from my mother to get alcohol and inevitably h...
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Age 44Since 01 / 25 / 2012
Prashant Dash
It was horrible. Failed pray to brown sugar during college days. Reached the bottom rapidly. Hampered each & every area of my life. It all started with marijuana, alcohol, codein, pills, bro...
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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 76Since 07 / 14 / 1994
Kathy Roberts
Nothing really bad happened. I didn't get a DUI. I didn't go to jail. I didn't lose anyone I loved. I was just DYING.
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Age 63Since 06 / 04 / 1980
Gary Nichols
I never fit in with my peers, so I drank and that ostracized me from the ones I wanted to be with. I got lower and lower, and people started noticing I wasn't sober on weeknights. I blacked...
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