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How to Slay Your Dragons
“The truth is, I have worked hard to not dislike myself so much, but I still worry, sometimes in an acute, frightened, little-kid way, about being too…
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Cold Blooded Old Times
“Once you’ve stopped anesthetizing yourself from reality you’re immediately forced to become present or die trying.”
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Megan Koester
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Why 2% of Me Wants to be Sick Again
A love song for Andrea Gibson.
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Garrett Kamps
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We’ll Make Great Pets
“In a wine-drunk fugue state, I’d sent half a dozen emails to a Korean woman I’d never met, demanding that she PayPal me 500 American dollars, or else I…
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Meaghan Garvey
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About God...
“What if it’s not so much that I don’t believe in God, but that I do, and just haven’t accepted it yet?"
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The Real Sarah Miller
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What Does It Mean to Be "In Recovery" Anyway?
“I had impostor syndrome -- but for slowly killing yourself.”
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Steve Kandell
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Recovery From Solitary Is An Illusion
“You can never go back to what you were, and what you could have been will always be out of reach.”
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A Room I Could Belong In
“I felt like I'd found the key to a door I knew I needed to open.”
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J Wortham
Notes From an Adult Child of Alcoholics
"They were always drinking, as far back as I can remember, in a way that I can now recognize as problematic, but at the time it was just the way things…
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Anna Held
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How to Feel Visible
"I felt like I was muting a part of myself, censoring my identity and erasing key parts without even realizing it."
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J Wortham
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The Alcoholic's Playlist Is Full of David Berman
"I ran through a stop sign on August 7, 2019, the same day Berman hung himself. It was, in fact, the last day I drank."
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Ben T G
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How I Stay Alive
by Clancy Martin
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