by Cheryl B, from Terryville, CT Reading your story really brought back memories for me. It’s funny how we can have decades of bad experiences from booze (or drugs) and never connect the dots. I started drinking after my parents divorced and my best friend drowned in a pond. Life had never been ideal, but […]
By Ashley, from Arkansas Hello my name is Ashley I am 20 although I have never been an addict addiction has affected me my entire life. I feel as if I do not talk about it I am going to explode eventually. My life with addiction started the day I was born. My mother was […]
By Mel, from USA Dear addiction, This morning as I prayed to God, a thought flashed through my mind. It told me to write this evil a letter, and right behind it was the discernment that God had just spoken to me. So I immediately picked up pen and paper and began to pour my […]
By Dean, from Indiana I don’t know how someone starts out a story like this, but here goes. I remember the first time I took Xanax. It was in High School. My 3rd year in and I was in my Environmental Science class. I knew most of the people in the class did drugs, but […]
By Lin, from Arizona When I was in 8th grade my life began a downward spin I started drink smoking and using pot by the time I was 15 I had discovered meth. I didn’t think I was the typical addicted at the time. I still went to school I had a part time after […]
By Lisa, from Canada I was in an emotionally and psychologically abuse marriage for 18 years that ended badly. I did everything I possibly could for those 18 years to try to make my husband happy. The more he abused me the harder I tried. It ended with me finding out that he was having […]
By Earl, from Jackonsville, FL My name is Earl! I am an alcoholic. I did not drink in my first 18 years of life. Neither one oft parents drank either. I was the all American kid played sports all of my life and made good grades. Never had a desire to drink at all. And […]
By CA, from the UK I feel I should start off by saying that before I met my now ex boyfriend, I was extremely ignorant to addiction and any form of mental illness, partly due to the way I was brought up and also partly due to the fact neither had entered my life yet! […]
By Zoe, from Rhode Island Growing up, I had a pretty normal childhood. I lived in a very small upper-middle class town in Rhode Island, where daily worries consisted of one of our horses getting loose or getting stuck behind a tractor on the way to work. I never went without anything growing up, and […]
I have a friend that has just recently stopped smoking pot. She has been addicted to marijuana and alcohol since she was a teenager and she will be 41 in a few days. She’s a wonderful person and I have moved a very long way to be here with her. When I came here, I […]
