By Maria I have had issues with drugs my entire teenage life and it’s the reason for a lot of my issues today. Drugs somehow alter you and change a person forever. When I was 15 years old I used a drug (I won’t mention the name) that would be considered one of the worst […]
By Jo Sullivan, from Annapolis, MD My name is Jo and I am an alcoholic. I a 44 years old, married for almost 20 years. No kids. My life has been a huge swing of ups and downs all of which have led me here….just over 5 months sober and starting over. While I am […]
By Melissa, from Oxford I started using drugs and alcohol at the age of sixteen. I thought that was where my story first began. It was only when I was clean and sober I realized it started way before that. Drugs and alcohol were my solution to my problems. They helped me out of my […]
By Ella The good news is we alcoholics have an overabundance of both. I know, I know…rumor has it that a lack of will-power is our problem. But let’s be honest, since when do we really listen to the “normal” people in our life anyway? Think about it for a few. We could consume extraordinary […]
Hello, I’ll just use the Title. My name is sick. I kinda want this to be totally anonymous. I haven’t shared this story with anyone but close friends and my fiance. Im 18 now, and will be going to college with her very soon. But not many want to hear about that. I moved to […]
by Rachel Black, from Scotland A Then and Now Account of Life Beyond Booze It was 21 months ago when I realised I had to stop drinking. Completely. Forever. Failure was not an option. Although far from alone, I had fallen hook line and sinker for the false promise that alcohol would ease my stresses […]
Hi my name is Becca, and I’m an alcoholic. My whole life had been surrounded by some sort of addiction. I was born in a family with an alcoholic/addict father. I thank god every day I have an amazing mother to overpower the pain I felt growing up without someone I had to call daddy. […]
by Jb, from Blackburn I am just going to tell you straight..I am 14 and I used to smoke weed every day and every night. But after a year of smoking weed non-stop, the high got boring, so my lads and I decided to move onto something worse: the new party drug Mephedrone. I only […]
Day 1 Today I made the biggest decision of my life – to stop drinking. To stop drinking totally and for good. I won’t pretend it’s been easy, even though I am only 18 hours into my sobriety. In fact, it’s been hell. I shake, am tearful and have sunken into a depression through my […]
So, that’s it then. Week one is nearly done and dusted (save for a few hours that will hopefully/definitely pass by incident-free). I have spent the few days since my last post seeking out more apt sites than Bloggymoms.com for my posts which regular readers will realize have shifted somewhat from the very sad subject […]
