Articles Index - page 2
Beth C.'s Recovery Story
I was born seventh out of eight kids, in a small New England town, and both of my parents were alcoholics. I started drinking when my dad started molesting me, at eight years old. I tried to tell my mother, but she wouldn't believe me. So I drank alcohol to escape.
Cheryl G.'s Recovery Story
It took being on the run for 14 months, not being able to see my son, losing my family, my dignity (we all know what addicts do for a fix), and finally prison for me to stop.
Katy's Recovery Story
One night my best friend asked me if I wanted to raid the liquor cabinet with her. I did it, and found heaven. Being drunk made me forget about all the pain and deception. I was thrilled.
Mark R.'s Recovery Story
I know that I would not be sitting here today were it not for that man and many others along the way reaching out to help another alcoholic like me.
Theresa's Recovery Story
I came into recovery because I got tired of losing all the time. I lost my first set of children and turned around was about to lose my second set. But even that's not the reason why I came into recovery.
Marion's Recovery Story
When I was drinking I would use alcohol to avoid the things I didn't want to deal with or accept. I would wallow in the past with my memories and my bottle or I would fantasize about a future I could never realize unless I let go of the alcohol completely.
Gary W's Recovery Story
God decided enough was enough, I was just sick and tired. Treatment gave me time away from alcohol, the AA rooms continued the recovery.
Roadway Jack's Recovery Story
The courts sent me to AA in 1958. I was 20 years old and didn't want it. The courts sent me back again in January 1975. By then I was sick and tired, ready to listen, and asking God for help.
Jeanette D's Recovery Story
I was a completely different person when I drank. Trouble brewed wherever I appeared. Yes, some times were fun and I behaved, but majority of the time I was terrible. I did things I would have never done sober.
Choney's Recovery Story
When I was 16 years old a family friend introduced me to heroin. I grew up a sheltered, only child and had no idea how dangerous the drug was. I just wanted to appear cool like so many others that age.
Pam R's Recovery Story
I was 37 when I truly fell in love. I married him and later figured out that I hated him, but loved the crack that he introduced me to. I divorced him and would continue my love affair with crack cocaine for the next five years.
Grateful's Recovery Story
People, places, and things don't disturb me as much as they used to because focus on the positive, I promptly admit when I make mistakes, and I have given up reading people's minds.
Nancy H's Recovery Story
I got married at 21 and we drank and fought together. We were together three years and after the marriage ended I really went wild. Drinking became even more important to me and a whole string of relationships followed.
Sheri N's Recovery Story
They took my children away from me and put them in foster care because I didn't care. I didn't care about my children, myself, or my family. I just didn't care about anything. Everyone has there very own bottom, that was my final one.
Don W's Recovery Story
As the years moved on, so did my addiction. By the 80s, I was slamming methamphetamine and robbing people and connections as a way of life.
MB's Recovery Story
I find now that dealing with all my emotions is a challenge, but I welcome it. I am still alone, but I welcome that too. It is hard to believe that I missed three years of beautiful full moons because I was passed out before the sky got dark in the evenings.
Kathy EF's Recovery Story
All of a sudden one day I had no choice to look at my life and how I was living. By then I had a little girl that ended up living with the same chaos as I did, but to her it was just normal.
Gwen R's Recovery Story
I drank to get drunk from the start. I was a blackout drinker from the start. I never knew if it would take two drinks or 20 to get me to the place I wanted to be. That place was anyplace else.
Jill C's Recovery Story
Only after eight years in Al-Anon did I admit that I too am an alcoholic. I stopped drinking 13 years ago after a shock when I thought I had dropped my baby girl over the side of a fishing trawler in a blackout.
Taryn A's Recovery Story
October 19 was the day. It was my junior year of high school. That day was when I chose to pick life instead of death. I realized that I had so much to live for, and that life was waiting for me.
Richard T's Recovery Story
My sober date is Jan. 7, 2000. Prior to that I lived in a cardboard box for the last 17 years. I never had the desire to stop drinking. I had nothing to gain at the time: no family friends no job skills, and never really worked.
Eileen D's Recovery Story
For the next year I quickly went downhill, but it wasn't just me going down and in pain, it was my whole family. My girls were hurt and angry they stopped enabling me. No more secrets. They were talking to their teachers at school and their friends.
Mary S's Sobriety Story
Through this last treatment I realized that regardless of the fact that I have this disease called alcoholism, I am responsible for my actions. All of those times I was told I had to be sober for me, I wish someone could have told me to pay attention to what my kids were seeing.
Debbie's Story
That night I wrote my suicide letters to my family. I wanted to die rather than taking another drink. I called a friend thinking to leave a message on her machine. I wanted to tell her where my body could be found so I wouldn't lay there alone in death for long.
Deanna's Story
The domestic violence calls were all the time - me being the one causing the disruption and him being the one to enable or provoke, not being able to handle the situation.