Lost… Beginning My Sobriety Journey

[Matt]

Welcome Kayla! You’re in the right place. Many of us have been exactly where you are. Read around the threads here and you’ll find plenty of familiar stories & experiences.

@VisionaryKay

I am ready to put all that behind me and become completely sober. I don’t have anybody in my life to hold me accountable for my actions so maybe this app will really help me out.

Accountability is a big part of staying sober. I don’t think anyone here can really say they did it totally alone. Whether it’s online accountability, in person meetings (or virtual meetings), or even a sobriety podcast or books, we all search for some type of meaningful understanding, guidance, and support.

Good for you for taking that step Kayla - that’s something to feel good about.

Narcotics - pills, opiates - are a significant addiction today, more and more each year it seems. Fortunately there is a growing understanding of how people recover from narcotics - and there’s lots of insight here on Talking Sober.

Lisa, one of our lovely moderators, has been through hell and back with pills and other substances - she shares her story here:

Lisa's 2 Year Soberversary

Wowzer! What a difference 731 clean and sober days can make in one’s life. Here’s a little about my story: I had severe back issues where doctors were giving me pain medication like it was candy. After surgery, their plan was to wean me off but the addict in me wasn’t accepting that, so I turned to the streets. It was all downhill from there. Not only was I hooked on pain pills, I was coming home from work and doing coke in the evenings to give me energy to get all my motherly duties done. T…

There’s also lots of threads under the tag “opiates”:

https://talkingsober.com/tag/opiates

and “pills”:

https://talkingsober.com/tag/pills

This thread is a more general one & I find it super useful, because it has lots of podcasts, books, groups, and places for insight and support:

Resources for our recovery

Welcome Kayla - it’s lovely to meet you You’re a good person and you deserve a safe, sober life where you can be your full self. Never forget that. Never think you don’t deserve to be alive, in all the ups and downs and mysterious, baffling beauty of life - because you do deserve it, all its richness. You deserve your life, sober, and full.