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Addiction can quickly become a spiral of anger and hopelessness. Breaking its grip on your life can seem like an impossible task. Depression, anxiety, and an attitude of “who cares anymore” can quickly seep in and ruin an someone’s drive to succeed in the pursuit of sobriety. It can seem like the world is against you and, more than that, your own body is against you. And it can seem like recovering from addiction is pointless, because what happens on the other side? Life has already fallen completely apart, what happens when sobriety hits – then what? Life is still broken into pieces around you, so why even try?

Every person with addiction shares some or all of those emotions. And no matter how supported a person with addiction is, or how many others in recovery surround them, the effort to achieve sobriety can be a very lonely one.

That is when the need for examples comes into play. People often point to the famous. Robert Downey, Jr., Eminem, Elton John, Demi Lovato. All of these popular names, and many more, have recovered from addiction and gone on to claim fortune and fame. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.