May of two thousand and twenty twenty, I had my first encounter with marijuana. I was at a senior sunset with my two best friends and one of their sisters. The sister was thirteen and in seventh grade and she had a wax pen. I was so proud of myself for everything that I accomplished…

I’m clean for a year now. I don’t feel “clean” but that’s what the world see. I was a drug addict, then I became an alcoholic. both times I got out of it totally alone, no support no medicine or anything and both times I had a great reason to fall into addiction. yet everyone…

Once upon a time in a land far away. There lived a little boy and he drank all day. Friends called him stupid and his brothers called him gay. Emptied all the bottles till the pain went away.

I always wanted a normal family. My father was a coke addict who fled his country to avoid the army. He was an abusive cheat which caused my mother who had a long history of sexual abuse to become an alcoholic. When I was around 7 I began looking after my sister who was around…

I’m at a complicated place in my life. I’m in a relationship with an opioid addict who treats me well usually but has outbursts and doesn’t appreciate his family as much as he should. I love him but being with him isn’t doing anything good for me. He won’t be successful and has admitted he…

Hi my name is Fred. And I would just like to share my story to inspire people. Because the news is not that great these days. I just wrote this book called Goodness and Mercy. It’s about how I overcame illiteracy alcoholism divorce pancreatitis and so much more through perseverance. On top of all of…

I was arrested today when the Mormons at the door called the cops. Sure, I was snorting cocaine off a strippers ass while a chicken fight was going on in the other room, but still kinda a dick move

She works my story in my music Mel Britt aka roc o star – My Story: The road to becoming a responsible, productive amazing and inspiring father may be a scenic route to some, but for others, it’s not always a pretty one. This is the story of an abuse child of a single mother,…

I’m twenty and when I was thirteen developed a problem with first cutting myself. That led to drinking, smoking, and finally abusing prescription drugs. I’ve been having weird feelings in my chest recently, so I went to the doctor. It turns out, because of all those things I now have a heart problem that has…

Growing up in my house meant knowing how to use drugs before knowing what a hug felt like, or at least this is how it seemed. I was never the type of kid who cried when they fell and ran to their mom for comfort, mostly because my mother’s vocabulary didn’t contain such words like…

Dear father, You were the perfect father. The father every little girl dreamed of having. I don’t understand. Why did you go? Why did you choose the path you chose over us? Every day I wonder to myself if it was ever my fault. Why would you leave us? We were your family. I think…

I’m nobodies nothing. Don’t be like me. Don’t do anything that I have done. My life is a collection of what not to do. I can see him looking down at me, we are so high. I feel my love for him and I know I’ll have that love forever!!! He came home tonight after…

I was sent to court at aged ten. It was for stealing for me and my younger sister and brother. Our own mother was too busy injecting drugs into her body and slowly killing herself to feed us. I was charged while I sobbed in the court room. They didn’t understand we hadn’t eaten in…

To all those who are complaining of life, to all those who wants to commit suicide, and to all those that they think they are very smart to beat all. I want to share my experience in the past ten years to help those who thinks they are helpless. There is no need to introduce…

Life’s not difficult. It’s the person we are that makes life a nightmare. It doesn’t matter if you have a successful career. If you fuck up, you’re done. I went to school for four years just to feel like a worthless alcoholic. Someone that meant well. I take care of people. I’m a nurse. I…

So, when I was fifteen and just moved in with my step Nan and granddad after having a major falling out with my parents, my Nan died. You see, I was very close to my Nan, she was like a mother figure to me. My mom would come around to visit me every other weekend…

My name is anon. I am 19 years old and I have had a rough childhood. Grew up with a father with a drinking problem. Causing my parents to split up and lose our family business. We have been poor ever since. I always had a house to sleep in and food to eat. I…

I don’t understand why. Why does it have to be her? She’s only fourteen. She has her future ahead of her. Everything, starts off easy at first but then it gets harder in life when you only have a younger sister that you love to death and would die for. She can only do certain…

In most countries, there is one little boy who faces bullying. Fahad is one Saudi boy who has faced bullying in his childhood. He spent most of his childhood under the attack of rapping community. You can imagine how hard for a child bullying is. And how effective to his mood rapping is. However, he…

She crumbled beneath the weight of her realization. In waves it washed over her, the reality of her failure. In heaving sobs, my head buried in my own legs, wailing with bitter tears of no more second chances, not here, not ever. Alone I stood against the over-crowded masses of family court, it was finished!…