Forum: Recovery Stories

My name is Gustin, and I am an alcoholic. My journey to recovery started 2 1/2 years ago before I was even able to piece the puzzle together. I...

Janbear-In a general way... My name is Jan and i am an alcoholic/addict. I was raised in a dysfunctional/abusive family. My mother and her...

Quite a few years ago my brother and I were having one of our "two or three times a year weather we need to or not" long distance phone...

As I sat in a white walled; polka dotted gray floor smoking room; I vividly remembered 14 hrs earlier I had taken a knife and literally sliced my...

This story of my life fighting my drug addiction, it is over 9,000 words long and I have put a lot of 0time, thought and effort into writing it. So...

Hello Everyone, My name is Joe B. and I am An Alcoholic. My Sobriety date is 20th of May 1991 and for that I am grateful. I came across this...

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Life for me began May the 16th 2005. That was the day that I turned my car around and instead of going to work I went to my family doctor. You see...

I am enjoying a daily reprieve with God's grace fully operating in my life through the fellowship of AA and a wonderful sponsor. I am so grateful. I...

I had my first drink when I was a teenager, my older sister took a friend and I to a keg party and we got pretty wasted. At that time i didnt really...

I say this sometimes in my sharing because both my parents were alcoholics and one had 20 plus years in AA and the other hung out in an Alano Club...

Hi everyone I am here to pour my heart aches on to you all.I thought everything was going to go so good this time around as some of you all read my...

Where do I begin, I guess I found myself drinking in pubs from the age of 13yrs and thought at the time that it was wonderful. I loved the...

Hello, I'm Kai, a grateful, dual recovering alcoholic! Turns out, this disease is some kind of sick family tradition. I grew up in a very...

I started drinking at 13 and really started abusing alcohol in the Navy in 1967. By 1969 I was somking pot and taking codine. 1970 speed, LSD,...

As a child I felt different. I had this disease long before I picked up the drugs. I never felt whole. I isolated and longed for approval and...

When I was growing up, alcohol had a huge impact on my life. It seemd that the people who hurt me where drunk at the time. I got raped at 3 years...

I hardly know where to begin these days. I have so much to be thankful for. I started out with alcohol as a teenager. I dont remember at exactly what...