I come from a place of neglect and abuse.  For this reason, I keep most at an arm's length.  I spent most of my childhood sad and alone.  I consider myself  to be a recovering Adult Child of An Alcoholic.  My dad had t...

  I never want to forget that day, in February 2006, holding onto the leash knowing there was one of the greyhounds on the other end. A dizzy sick feeling was washing over me and it was time to get that dog in the house out of the sno...

I met my husband online 15 years ago playing cards. This was before dating sites existed. We were both in unhappy relationships. As we talked he told me he was an alcoholic but had been sober 10 years. I was a drinker but had no idea what that rea...

Wow what an awesome idea! I started using at the age of six.  I was abused as a child, my dad used to beat my mom regularly and I would wake up hearing him hurting her.  I used to try and help her only to get hurt myself.  My p...

A lot that I do is in virtue of a revelation to my struggle with substance abuse. About ten years ago, "addiction" was only a nine letter word until I was aware of a family m...

My story is plain and simple, I let Drugs and Alcohol ruin my life, and if anyone tells you that's NOT true, they just don't know. I first got the taste of Meth in 2004 after asking for a ride to a club, after that first...

I'm an addict and I say it greatfully. I've had addict behavior since I was young, telling lies for attention, steeling and hiding things. I remember the first time I got high, I didn't even get high.. But I kept coming back;...

This is about as real as it gets for me. im finally giving sobriety my all and fighting this disease once and for all. I grew up on the west coast of the usa where the sun was hot, and the days were long. I have one sib...

Im 23 from south jersey .. my addiction started when i was 14 with drinking.. i experimented with pretty much everything but when i was 18 i tried pcp for the first time and fell inlove. most people i talk to say that they only tried it once and h...

My story is one from a parent, I can only see the pain from the outside and what drugs do to wonderful children and their families. My road has been long and  full of ups and downs and lots of twists and turns to arrive where I am today. Both...

The steps I had to take My life began Dec 10 1971, I grew up in small town Buckingham FL. Life was a little bit of chaos, my parents got divorced before I can remember. My mother remarried to an alcoholic when I was around 3 or 4. I grew u...

I am still learning how to openly express my feelings and not hide them or bury them in a cleaning frenzy or other addictive behavior like surfing the Internet or eating.  But I'm getting better at it.  I've been sober since November 19,...

Dear Jenn and Soberbook,   Hello I am ****** and I am an addict.  To tell my story I would have to begin with the first time I used.  The first time I used was at the age of 16. Of all drugs my first experience was...

I think the most important step for fighting addiction is to see the effect it has on loved ones. Growing up, I thought I had the perfect childhood: a great living environment with a father was a working man who had a great income, a mother who wa...

I started using meth when I was 25 years old. I am now 44 yrs. old. I stopped almost 2 yrs. ago but now I am full of health issues. I now have a bad heart & recently found out my liver bad. I'm scared. I don't want to die. I have a 17 yr. daug...

I tried to kill myself for the first time on in 2010 on the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. I just wanted to go to sleep and not wake up. I had trouble sleeping so I would drink until I passed out every night. My drink of choice, Franzia box w...

Ive never done this before so bare with me :). I grew up in a small town on long island. My mother and father were the american story, football player and cheerleader met in high school got married popped out four kids and had a great house to rai...

This such a great Idea and outlet for people to share their experience strength and hope with others. My mom gave birth to me the night Mary Lou Retton was doing back flips at the Olympics. If that wasn't a foreshadowing of what was to come I don'...

when I was a little kid I remember eating ham n cheese for three months straight, breakfast, lunch, and dinner. my mother thought nothing of it but a little strange. In hindsight , which I find to be 20/20, I can recognize it as a tendency...

I am at my halfway house feeling hopeless, rejected, misunderstood, judged, and alone.  Yet, C from I keeps telling me that I am in the right place.  How is that possible.  I am unique and different.  I didn't loose my job, nev...

Born in a medium  low class, since growing up I was more active and extrovertive than other kids, didn't have problems in school but due to my hyperactivity and lack of self control I was initiated in martial arts at age of 3, I started build...

I became free of my addictions when I became saved and accepted Jesus Christ as my personal savior and asked him to live in my heart forever. I communicate through him through personal prayer that devdelops a relationship with him. Ask him to take...

I knew I was different from a young age. My cousin was in and out of detoxes/rehabs/mental institutions. So instead of playing house when I was younger I played rehab, and nightclub, and mental institutions. The day before my 19th birthday I start...

Hey so I love this new idea to share your story about addicition with people. I am a 22 year old female and I have had several years of addicition. My story beginfls when my first memory was being raped by my father at the age of 6-7. It happened...

I am an alcoholic and addict who was born and raised in a large midwest city.  My alcoholism began to surface at around age 12, when I became very ashamed of my sexuality and virginity.  I began experimenting with alcohol and marijuana t...

I am a grateful 37 year old recovering addict!! My story begins many years ago when I was a young girl. My father was a drug dealer an addict my mother was just a addict. My father sexually abused me for many years he use to let his friends rape m...

  Halfway house 101   1. Dont buy a months worth of food when you first get there i know your anxious to spend your government funded food stamps but your roommates will eat it, go for a weeks worth 2. Get...

Hi Everyone, Well, I am not really proud of myself right now. You see, I got sober from meth August 7, 1995, gave up alcohol in 1988 and did really good until November 2012. I was living overseas for 2 years, and had to come home to take...

Words soft spoken, heart cracked open Wanting to feel again A smile from ear to ear, but deep down there was fear He's so warm like the sand under my feet But can turn ice cold how rain turns to sleet He was...

I am a 22 year old drug addict/alcoholic. I always found it interesting how difficult it is to begin a story. Much like it is difficult to take that first step with anything in life. Whether it has positive or negative impacts, people always seem...

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I have been in and out of the aa rooms for years. All those attempts at sobriety didn't work because it wasn't my time. I wasn't ready. When I completely surrendered myself to the aa program and the first step, then it started to work. <...

So i came into life and never had a chance.I was born in baltimore MD to a addict mother.As long as i can remember i felt less then everyone else.I didnt have the cool shoes or clothes and i was one of few white kids in my area. All threw grade sc...

I'm 21 now and have abused alcohol since the age of 15. And smoked weed most days since I was 17. I'm quite shy and nervous around big groups, so I always had to have a few drinks in me to feel comfortable. When I drink I'm loud and rude and I can...

My first memory of any form of addiction was when I was a kid, started off as a food addiction which lead thru out my years of development. I went from obesity to another addiction of bulimic all I wanted was to be thin because that would c...

 I couldnt comprehend how someone could be an alcoholic until I turned into one. I couldn't wrap my head around the notion that; someones life revolved around drinking and getting high, that is until my disease consumed me. My addiction...

Pain of an addict when I look at it it's tragic  wouldn't walk away even though I said I've had it  stuck with you through the scars long nights rememorize with the stars  came to realize your the typ...

I started Using Speed in one form or another in March of 1975....I was 12 yrs old at the time......The coach of the Sports team...

I guess this is a good chance to get everything, my whole story, out into the open, yet still anonymous. My name is D, and I am 23 years old. I was born and lived all but 7 months of my life in New Jersey. My Dad was 36 when I was born...

  By the mid 1990’s my cocaine addiction was out of hand; it had all but...

I was born in New York to an addict/alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother.  I always had the addict...

18 years ago I was having terrible migraines.  I was introduced to stadol nasal spray.  For the first time in my life the migraine went away.  I was given this drug like it was candy.  No  one realized I had become physica...

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THE SHORT VERSION   I grew up the eighth of Nine children, my father was a alcoholic.  I never fell asleep as a small child until I knew my dad was home and everyone was safe.  Many nights he came home and beat up my...

I question if I even have much of a story to share... all I know is as of late if I do share people have been touched by my shares.   I feel Very overwhelmed at this time I am just a little over 30days sober. The two men who h...

I was always against drugs. I looked down on people who were using drugs, and I never understanded it. I lost so many family and friends to drugs when I was younger. I thought it was a choice and I didn't understand how addiction worked. But fast...

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Trying to write this story is hard. My son is a recovering addict. Not by choice. He is currently serving 4 years at a federal prison. He is 24 years old. He has 2 years left on his sentence. I first noticed him experimenting with weed at 14. So m...

I'm lucky I come from a place of love, my parents were and still are wonderfully beautiful people. Coming from a home of love does not mean life doesn't throw you a few curve balls, I am testament to that. Addiction and abuse can lead it's way in...

I have been sober18 years  soo happy I didn't waste another day being a alcoholic loser thanks to my higher power   ...

         A STORY OF SURRENDER-My First Sober Thanksgiving          &nbs...

It all started when I was 14. A sick love affair with alcohol that took over my life before I could even realize it. I went to a party with friends trying to be cool and drank rum and coke all night and somehow managed not to get sick or wake up w...

I'm not worthy......that is the filter I live my life through and I'm SICK of it! I think most people have some degree of feeling that they are not enough, and I always wonder why mine is so intense.  I grew up in a "normal" family. M...

My name is [Female Name Removed] and I have, at times, struggled with drinking too much alcohol.  Mainly to numb my anxiety as I suffer from at times.  My anxiety can be very debilitating, causing physical symptoms such as no appetite, a...

I'm a mom & a gramma. I've been on pain killers for many many years. I'm prescribed 3-4 percs 10/325 & 2 oxys 30 MG's a day. I always take more than I'm prescribed so I always run out early.and have to go days & days w\o them. I'm fort...

 l strongly believe that living sober is the best amends.  It certainly has given me the chance to right my wrongs and live authentically.  We all have our crosses to bare, and addiction has been mine.  but  I have a choic...

" Not this mom"  My road to addiction was well in place by the time I had my 2 sons. Since I'd gone to every other job under the influence, being a stay at home mom was not going to be an exception. I had a pill for everything! Baby i...

I remember the first high I ever had. I was 13. It was the little league championship game. I was up to bat with bases loaded and we were down by 3. I stepped up to the plate and swung at the first pitch I saw. As the ball sailed over the left fie...

I came into recovery the same way most people did. I was sick of being sick.  I was not a person who used for many years, I hit my bottom in a matter of 2 years the first time.  I was born and raised in New York. My mother was clinically...

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It's amazing this circle of life we all live & how it gives back to us...only for us to use what we've been given to help another in need! I was just outta jail for about the 5th time, two days later my mother & my cousin who is a...

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"Hi.  Nice to meet you.  May I buy you a drink? Oh, by the way, I'm a drug addict and suffer a long term cycle of sobriety and relapse," said no drug addict, ever.  It would be so much easier if they did.  But, most drug addict...

  It's Sunday night and I cannot fall asleep. I've spent the better part of 3 weeks in my bedroom mostly recovering from using meth with some using. For me the crash of after using that stuff takes so much out of me that I spend way t...

I grew up in a house where whiskey was the answer to a sore throat. I don't remember my first drink because I was probably very young. I always hung around the bad kids. In high school my boyfriend was one of the well known dealers. I stayed with...

I wasn't one of the people who had a horrible bottom that would bring me into recovery -- just because you jump off before you reach destruction doesn't lesson the reality of addiction.  Some are just more fortunate the others. I was...

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Hi again.  I don't know if this is going to come out clearly, or in poetic form....all I know is my heart is shattered I fell in love years ago with an unstable women. I myself was unstable with addiction and my own physical, spiritua...

So, I'm not an addict but I am still trapped in the vicious cycle of addiction.  My role is just as exhausting and debilitating as that of an addict.  I am the over -compensating enabler.  Some people don't realize that there is oft...

I had been using Ambient for about 12 years, as a sleeping aid. I don't have the ability to fall asleep by myself with-out meds. On occasion if I take too many, it becomes a hypnotic and I walk in my sleep. I eat in my sleep and I went to a car fo...

I sat in the car outside of my apartment in Sherman Oaks, California in distress. Nothing had happened, no big event triggered me, but this was my normal. I had been crying for several days, unabl...

Someones addiction sadly as it sounds never really ends, there's always the if's and reminders. I remember when I could go for days smoking meth and be like so jacked up I'd forget what day it was sometimes, but I always knew when the week...

Being a drug addict for a very long time around twelve years using alcohol and coke trying to go sober for the first time  ...

Wow! I am really going to do this- write it all down.....I have lived with this pain my entire life and maybe just maybe if I write my story  I will feel better inside.  I really do...

Well, here it is.  This is my story.  My intention in writing this is to release it.  I read a quote once about "who I am" on my journey to self discovery.  It said something about taking a book of all your stories and throwing...

I grew up in a messy house. I was too ashamed to let kids come over. At a young age I realized my house was different. It was then that I had to live a lie and pretend I was “normal” and I c...

Hello sober brothers & sisters I have been clean & sober since 1992.I hit rock bottom two years before but didn't quit using cocaine. I'm a baby boomer born in the middle of the 50's so my generation was liberal towards smoking pot...

In some ways, I saw myself heading down the path of destruction long before I ever took that first drink or drug. When I was born I had trouble breathing and had to spend 6 months in the hospital. The medical difficulties ended up resulting in a b...

  I grew up in a small town in NJ, which is noted for its ample cemetery space. They say are more dead people then there...

Journey to freedom......I was born with a cleft palette my whole childhood I felt different got made fun of by the neighborhood kids and by 7 I shutdown and withdrawn after I seen my daddy cry at my grandmoms funeral "why did god make my daddy cry...

Prescription drugs addiction are deadly. I hurt my neck and chest resulting in a fusion of my neck and a rib being taken out of each side of my chest. During all the surgeries and PT, my doctors had me on an immense cocktail of prescription drugs....

It's been 8 long years of denail and trying to convince myself I can manage. I just accepted yestarday that I truely am an addict and everything that I do is a manifestation of that. I finally admitted to my family I have a problem and decided I n...

I am in recovery for addiction to alcohol and opioids. I quit drinking in August of 2012 and went into inpatient rehab for addicti...

5-9-14 GLORY 2 GOD!!! Let me start by saying it's my pleasure to see an individual like yourself Ms. Gimenez,provide such a huge service to your community,along side great entrepreneurial skills!By me seeing what a person can do by...

My addict has moved across the country. She is homeless and has not had contact with anyone in over 6months. Police were called she was found in a church and told to call home she never did. This is honestly the most painful thing in my life. But...

Hi everyone I would like to let everyone get a chance to here my story and I hope it realy gets somone through the day.. when I was growing up in Chicago I was the only cacasion child around getting picked on an prety much hated. I tryed to do goo...

 I was born into a family of insanely drug and alcohol d  parts, my family is Puerto Rican and moved to California and my parents moved to washington While my mom wmonthspregnant with me and my sister 4, my mom and dad were runni...