Imagine your life if every day were filled with sadness and angst. Imagine never knowing feelings of peace or joy. For Scott, this was reality. “I had a lot of anxiety and depression from being bipolar,” he says. So when he lost his job and found...
“When I tried meth, I loved it, and I knew I was in trouble,” Bob says. “It was downhill from there.” Bob started using when he was 31 and, for the next 12 years, worked long hours to support his meth addiction, neglecting his relationships. He...
Mike had only been married six months when his new bride passed away. “It changed how I looked at things,” he says. “I didn’t go to God. I went to the bottle instead.” Alcohol destroyed Mike’s second marriage, and he wound up living with his coworker...
Dutch was only seven when he first smoked marijuana, the start of a drug habit that took over his life. “After high school, I started doing meth, and I did it for 30 years,” he says. Though Dutch was a carpenter by profession, eventually he couldn’t...
Bill was blindsided just when his life was getting on track. While he was working, a construction vehicle backed up over him. Life hadn’t been easy. He’d spent 32 years in the military, then had to transition back to civilian life in Ohio. He got a job...