by BreAnne Kautzky

Created on: January 30, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

The road to my turn around was one I will never tread again. I was using drugs and alcohol from seventh grade to junior year of high school. As I got older the more severe drugs I got into and the more mixing of drugs I did.

When my junior year of high school came around I had been using meth for two years. I did good for awhile with regulating how much I used because I had a reputation to maintain as a varsity soccer captain, varsity lacrosse captain, "A" honor roll student, and homecoming royalty of the junior class. No one knew, but then things got tough.

A guy I was dating was abusive but had gotten increasingly worse. He is a textbook sociopath and put on wonderful presentations in public and then switched behind closed doors. The more worse it got that more meth I started using. That is where all slipped.

Being high was the only way I didn't care what he did to me, I was numb emotionally and turned cold. I quit soccer, resigned from my captain position in lacrosse, and pretty soon I fell of the honor roll cause all I wanted to do was get high and nothing else mattered.

I am amazed I am here today walking, breathing, talking, and functioning at normal. That was the point I decided I was done. My family was torn in a thousand pieces and scattered everywhere. It was a rough, painful, very sickly road back to sanity. Its still rocky sometimes but it has been three years since that December night.

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