**I never thoughti would ever have an identity crisis. But i used drugs for 17 years. Im 39 years old and i was 19 when i became an addict. I was married, son was a toddler, bought a house in my name, full time job, etc. Its been a little of 2 years of sobriety snd im still struggling with finding out who i am sober. Has anyone else gone through this? Advice? Opinions?
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Hi Jennie! I can absolutely relate to what ur saying. I felt this way also in the beginning of my recovery. I started using when i was 15. 22 years later i quit drugs and alcohol. I think tho that when we begin using at such a young age, we never gave ourselves the chance to discover who we really are. We ended up living in survival mode and so that took precedence. I know that when i got clean, i had no idea of what i liked or didnt like, what my fav food or flower was, what my passions were… nothing. We get to discover ourselves now at the age we are! It can be kind of exciting really 
Maybe spend some time asking urself some basic questions as if u were getting to know urself again 
See what comes up for u
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Yes, my story of addiction is very similar to yours like I started using hard drugs at 23yrs old & now I’m 43yrs old with short amounts of clean time here & there throughout the years & I even managed to start a little family with 5 kids during my active addiction. It seemed so wrong & immature of me to be fixing in the washroom while she was pushing out my first boy! The longest time of sobriety I’ve had recently was 90 days & I celebrated it by using hard drugs! Very foolish of me but I’m learning from my mistake’s. One day at a time & Easy Does it my friend! You got this!
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