HOW APP-ROPRIATE –
Feb. 12, 2023 – The app prompts you to post a photo and text marking your sobriety, which others can comment on, and it’s uplifting knowing you aren’t alone.
I started experimenting with drugs and alcohol at age 15, when I lived at home in Canada.
Struggles with trauma and depression have been with me since early childhood as a victim of sexual violence. At first, I coped through self-neglect but later, this became substance abuse
Now 31, and living in Berlin, I have come a long way since the incident in late 2019 that inspired me to get sober.
At that time, still living in Canada, I was regularly drinking alone at home in my room, sometimes downing an entire bottle of wine in a single sitting.
While out with friends, I could drink six beers in the span of an hour or two.
This was the only way to alleviate my constantly debilitating anxiety.
On Christmas Eve of 2019, a fight broke out when an outsider was invited to our family meal and began to cause trouble.
