“I thought having children would stop me, but it didn’t. I used substances while pregnant, not because I wanted to, but because I was already addicted.”
Her children were eventually taken in by her parents while Charlotte continued to struggle.
💬 “I Woke Up Every Day Wanting to Die”
Charlotte described the final years of her addiction as psychologically devastating:
“I had intense psychosis, I was scared of everything. I couldn’t go on — I was afraid of losing my mind.”
