Stories from Our Community

The Weight of the Mask
May 3, 2025

For years, I wore a mask. A carefully constructed facade of normalcy, hiding the chaos that raged within. On the outside, I was successful, responsible, in control. Inside, I was drowning in a sea of addiction. It started innocently enough, a way to ...

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Mike
May 3, 2025

Music was my life. It was my escape, my passion, my voice. I played the guitar, wrote songs, and dreamed of sharing my music with the world. But somewhere along the way, the music got tangled up with something else: addiction.

It started subtly. A...

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Sarah (I want to keep real name private)
May 2, 2025

My name is Sarah, and for a long time, my life wasn't really mine. It was like it belonged to something else, this need for that next hit. It started out pretty ordinary, I thought. College was a lot, and someone gave me a pill to "take the...

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