If you are a recovering alcoholic, or addict, when did you hit rock bottom?!
Answers: When I stole money from my mother so I could buy some pain pills from a friend. I've never been so ashamed. I stopped about a week later. Clean, 6 years.
Ten years ago.
I hit rockbottom when I lost my kids and ended up homeless.
Right......................................
........now.
When u almost feels that u HATE drugs n alcohol n stuff
i hit rock bottom when alcohol started to take over my life, and when i was drinking i was making a fool out of myself and hurting myself. when i had let alcohol take over me to the point that i couldnt even recognize who i was and had given such a bad impression of me
When you realize it's to late.
when i woke up with one shoe
one earing
and some dudes wife beater tied around my waist
didnt remember anythingg
and still today i dont know what the hell i did
when i almost lost my job and i was broke and i most importantly i was in danger of loosing my child and didn't even realize it. once i was squatting over a toilet that was too nasty to sit on in a house that didn't have real furniture and a roach crawled across the toe of my $300 boots. we had been waiting for hours on dope to come through. i knew at that moment that i was at the bottom but it still took me a little while to crawl back up...i had started to HATE the way they made me feel
I've been in recovery since September 12, 1980 and like all other recovering people, that's when I hit MY bottom. People don't get into recovery because they want too, they do it because they have too for one reason or another. Some because of health, financial, legal or family/social problems, they figure out that every time they use they have some kind of these problems. Mine was legal and health. I also don't know any alcoholics or addicts that wouldn't continue to use if they didn't suffer all of the negative consequences.
When I woke up in the admit ward of a funny farm, with some felony charges hanging over my head, diagnosed as suicidal and homicidal. Five years later, I became an RN and began to help other guys to clean up their act.
Got tired of playing the game and wearing the mask. Asked GOD to help me- Got pregnant @ age 40! Would never harm an unborn child. Now a Co-Facilitator for a Support Group. 6 years clean! GOOD FOR ALL WHO HAD TO HIT ROCK BOTTOM AND FINALLY SEE THE LIGHT! That is what happened to me- modified version.
I did not get struck sober at my first meeting. It took three suicide attempts in the three days before I came into my last first AA meeting to get my attention. The last time I introduced myself as a newcomer, nobody clapped. I will celebrate 23 tears of borrowed time next Monday.
I'm not a recovering alcoholic. I think I am teetering over the edge into alcoholism, though. I know this because I only enjoy things if I am drinking.
by the time you hit, you don,t even know it. it seems like a natural thing to you. it takes family members and well meaning friends to call your attention to it......at that point, its up to you to "pick yourself up".
never, i was one of the fortunate few. i didn't drink often, or a lot, i just couldn't stop completely. i checked out AA meetings, and realized, i am an alcoholic. after years of hearing the life stories of some of the other alcoholics i sponsor, i realize how lucky i was, to get out, before hitting bottom.
the nite i was arested i in truth hit it befor that i just could not see it do to the fog i allmost lost my house twice in one year i never paid my bills on time i had the shakes evrey morning it goes on for every but now i am clean and sober thankes to AA and my higher power