My first memory is of my father molesting me. He would "tuck me in" at night, touching me while my mother was emotionally and physically absent. I would lay there. Frozen. Terrified. Clinging to my only source of safety- my stuffed animal named...

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...

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...

***WARNING - THIS IS MY STORY*** i wish i didn't remember the things i remember. i wish i was like those people who i've read about who don't remember anything. For the longest time i've shoved down all the memories and hid them. i started...

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...

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

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 said those words soo many times, my miserable existence, please take me out of this life....Here starts a chapter:   I was raised with an alcoholic father, and a mom who was straight edged, could do no wrong. I don't kn...

As I have gotten older I have realized how shot out I am, drugs / alcohol really did a number on me, my friends just call me "special", and really if you hung out with me for an extended amount of time you see it, some are lucky enough to see it e...

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...

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...

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...