Hi everyone. I’m just curious to hear from anyone on hear that got sober using this app only.
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Welcome back @Nosaj
I found the app after 12 months of sobriety. Ive been here on and off over 5 years.
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I know this app helps, just coming on and reading here or posting. It definitely helps, but I’m not sure if people succeeded in sobering up completely because of this app alone.
It’s been a huge help, but for me personally, I still have to work my other steps and things that I have in place for continuing to be sober (I.e. journaling, exercising, meetings, etc).
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Im currently 60 days and started reaching out in this community only a few days sober. I have not done any structured program but I can’t really say it’s the app alone that has kept me sober though it has been a huge part of it. I’ve also done a lot of reading, journaling, self reflection other personal work daily. I don’t think it’s possible for the app alone to get/keep you sober but the community here can definitely be a big part of it.
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I wouldn’t say I got sober just using the app, but I also don’t think it is a coincidence that I found the app a week after my last quit (of so so so many) and have been sober ever since. I definitely recommend checking in and reading and interacting A LOT if you are going to rely on the app, tune in here A LOT …it can definitely help and we need a lot of support and community in early sobriety.
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Welcome back Jason! This time around in recovery, i mainly used this app for support (did do the occasional online meeting). However i did have ALOT of previous experience with the 12 steps (NA, AA, and CA) from years ago. I truly do believe that my previous experience from going to meetings and doing the steps helps my recovery today.
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I used this app/forum when I got sober.
The sober Community here is a big part of my sobriety. Not only was there support, but also education, experience, accountability, thought provoking topics, challenge and tough love.
It’s a great tool, but like all programs, it only works if you work it.
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I found this app right before my first successful quit which is not coincidental. I had given up alcohol for stretches before but this app started my road to sobriety. I don’t go to meetings so the app is my only social aspect for recovery.
I do lots of reading about sobriety and practicing living in sobriety outside of the app but this is the place I come to talk it out.
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I’m dual diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and alcoholism. I’m in AA, but with my mental health I feel like AA doesn’t help, but makes it worse if that makes sense. I guess I’m looking for experience, strength, and hope about recovery outside of AA. I read somewhere on this app of people getting sober. I’m just curious/investigating people outside of AA that have recovered. There is so many other so called options like SMART. Im just tired of the same repeating cycle.
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I got sober using this app.
Kinda.
I mean both my grown up children are recovering addicts. My son dual diagnosis with bipolar. My daughter also with a side order of anorexia for her dual diagnosis. So I had a lot of knowledge about addiction through my kids.
But my first 2 plus years it was this app. Mostly the gratitude thread.
Every day.
I’d start my day, EVERY DAY on the gratitude thread. Listing everything I had to be grateful for. And I’d read what everyone else shared that they had to be grateful for. I actually retrained my brain.
- In recovery, we either learn to be grateful, or we don’t last. Gratitude is the air of recovery. Gratitude is what makes the lungs of recovery fill, the heart beat, and the life flow. The attitude of gratitude focuses on what we have rather than what we don’t.
I got to AA meetings now. I do a lot of meditation and I’m just starting to be curious about this Dharma recovery thing.
I think gratitude and keeping an open mind is key.
I found a couple of AA meetings I like down by the beach and I like to go to them. I haven’t made friends with anyone yet. That’s ok. But I do like to listen and share with others.
Hope to see you around.
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This is my go to place for peer support and has been for years now. Especially early on I had a really hard time connecting to others in person. While I did go to NA meetings for a while, but never did the steps or had a sponsor. Higher power is not my thing. lately I’ve been going to some Dharma Recovery meetings which is more my cup of tea, but I do feel I have my sober circle of friends in recovery right here. And made some real friends here too.
I also have some mental health problems - personality stuff and trauma- to deal with and have been in therapy for over four years now. That helped me a lot. And my work is in addiction care, partly as a nurse and partly as experience worker. Talking sober is a big and integral part of my recovery. But it’s not all. There’s a total package of work, therapy, peer support making my life liveable, more interesting and better than it was in active addiction. I never could have worked on my mental health if I wasn’t sober. Or could I have remained sober if I didn’t tackle my problems. It works both ways. Wishing you all success friend.
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This app is my main sober support. I come here everyday, sometimes a few times a day. The folks and here are so knowledgeable and supportive. I’m just over 5 years! Never been to AA but if I felt I needed more support or stronger sobriety I would definitely be open to going. This forum has turned my life completely around! I read a lot of quit lit and listened to pod casts in the early years too.
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came here in 2016 i was 30 years sober at that time just was curious at first but i just come on and have made new friends still sponsor and talk at meetings never had internet when i got sober so meetings was the only place i could go to , what ever keeps you sober and happy then thats fine , keep on trucking
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i’ve been sober for over 4 years, i never really went the AA route but i did use this app a lot mostly in early sobriety. as others have said, many other things in my life helped with me staying sober. therapy and lifestyle changes mostly.
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I’m multi-diagnosed with depression, anxiety, bpd (though that one’s a bit debatable, my shrink seems to think it’s more likely cPTSD as symptoms tend to overlap), ADHD, and, of course, substance abuse, mainly alcohol.
I’ve spent many years in therapy, tried online AA meetings, did some DBT groups, but for the substance abuse, this place is my go-to for peer support. I also have a shrink I see once a month and take a whole bunch of meds to keep semi-sane. I don’t think I could’ve gotten sober without this community tho. It feels like one of the only outlets in my life where I can openly discuss my mental health struggles and how substance abuse fed into them. I try to come here and read at least once a day.
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i only used this app. gave up in 2016 and never touched booze again. Found this app while badly hungover and it really helped to keep mind busy
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Yes as far as a sober community is concerned this app is the only one i use…this place and more importantly the people on here are crucial to my recovery because i know i need the support of people who understand addiction whom i can turn to and in turn, also attempt to help and support…we all need each other…this wasnt the only thing i did for my recovery tho…i also did ALOT of work on myself and what brought me to my addiction which im still working on almost 3 years on and probably always will be. I dont post so much on here nowadays but im still here reading every day and posting when i can or if i feel i might be useful somehow…one thing is for sure if i felt i was struggling with my sobriety in any way shape or form this is the first place id come to and ask for help before i got anywhere near a drink.
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Sober for 6 plus years with as main tool this app en being here almost every day since.
Tried the tips I’ve got here ore read from replies on simulair stories like mine.
Read a lot here but also read recovery books and listened to podcasts, I still do.
Focus these days is to mantain what I have build into those years and learning to love myself more.
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I don’t know that anybody here, even the most active, will say they got sober thanks to this app alone.
If what you’re questioning is the absolute need for things like AA, therapy, medication, psychiatric assessment, inpatient rehab, exercise, meditation, just to name a few, then the answer is that this forum includes all kinds of individuals who have gone down all kinds of routes to establish, and keep, sobriety. You may find what you need in AA, or perhaps in establishing an exercise and wellness routine, or maybe you need to use some medication to kickstart your sober journey. None of those avenues is objectively better than any other to achieve sobriety. Everybody is different.
And even though we’re all here, this app is not the only one thing we all have in common. It is not, so to speak, our only common denominator. If I had to list some of these common denominators, I’d say all of us with longer-term sobriety have had it as our number one priority for long stretches of time. All of us have done some (or a lot of) soul -searching, and sought to understand our addiction, our triggers, and how we can react, redirect, and stay safe. All of us, I think, have changed habits, looked for safe alternatives, relinquished toxic relationships and sought deeper understanding of ourselves, and what has made us addicts. All of us definitely share the distinct and absolute desire not to use, today or ever.
I’m not sure I’ve expressed myself clearly (or even correctly, as English is not my language). What I mean to say is that this community helps a lot, a whole lot, but it would probably fall short as the only tool for anyone to get sober.
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i tried to use this app only, however it wasnt enough. I have had to fill my life up with other things. i found revovery dharma through this app. which resonates with me incredibly well. i really love meditation meetings (online)… i have to remind myself daily that i am substances addict and have been for 30 years (addictive behaviour was from young) therefore i do NA and have done on and off for 20 years… longest sobriety i got was 8 and half months with a sponsor from NA (all online)… longest sibriety with just the app (without checking because i have been in here since 2019!) is about 4 months. today i want to fill my life with new experiences and just looking at my phone to help me keep sober is not enough… I’m an addict!.. i want to experience life fully and need more support and to hear lots of life experiences in recovery ro make my new journey possible 
… take it easy keep it in the day. (i can hardly think past today as it gives me angst). present moment. Universe please keep me clean and sober today!)
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