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WHATS YOUR ROCK BOTTEM
Posted on 04/18/08, 01:24 pm
I dont really have a rock bottem and this is probably why its even harder for me to quit,but last year I was on a weeks binge.Drinking around 24 beers a day.I had woken up and was really hungover and I streached and my body had become so brittle that when I streached I pulled something in my neck.I got a stiff neck from streaching can you believe that!
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Reply #1 04/21/08 3:37pm
my bottom was walking out on my hubby and my kids. I for some reason when I walked out that door and got to the bar I lost it and called home and said that I needed help. I went to a 28 day treatment center and well here I am today. -
Reply #2 04/29/08 8:52pm
I thought it was going to be loosing a marriage but it ended up being my health. 9 months sober now and I feel it mentally and my last labs showed improvement in my heathg due to the zero alcohol goal I have. -
Reply #3 05/04/08 9:42am
I've had a few rock bottoms but the "important one" happened a little over a year ago. After reading an email I believed my rapist had found me and was going to harm me. So I ran away, didn't tell anyone about the email or where I went. Well I drank alot, in my car that night. I got sick on the side of a road, tripped, hurt my knee, fell into the sand and other roadside junk.
I ended up in the driveway of some friends house. They found me passed out in my car with the lights on and the engine running. Most of the night is still a blurr to me.
When I looked in the mirror early that morning I didn't like what I saw. My hair a mess, my face and hands bruised from falling, my pants torn, and I was covered in dirt and puke.
I never wanted to see myself do what I did that night again. It's that visual image of me that changed something in me. When I had to have the knee operated on a few months later it only reenforced everything. It's been almost 13 months sober for me. -
Reply #4 05/04/08 3:06pm
Wow what a great story JennaS -
Reply #5 05/27/08 9:50pm
my bottom this time was going to a bar and being driven home by strangers. the next morning i woke up and found my pissy jeans on the floor and don't know if i pissed myself in public. no dignity! that has to be my lst bottom. i have two days sober. -
Reply #6 06/25/08 10:21am
My rock bottom was sleeping in a car all strung out in San Fransisco. I went back to drinking and using since then, and I think what really got me sober was prison, but I have never been anywhere worse than that.
I now have a little over 10 months, an=m in the middle of my 4th step, feeling a little squirelly but alright. -
Reply #7 06/25/08 8:47pm
Hitting rock bottom - to me it's pretty literal - Walking (not driving) home from the bar on New Year's Eve (actually about 4am New Year's Day) fell and broke my jaw on the sidewalk. Lost teeth, wired jaw for six weeks, stitches inside my mouth, and on my chin - nice scar! -
Reply #8 07/01/08 7:14pm
I have had so many bottoms and always thought the last was the last.. such as hospitalizations, jail because I kicked a cop, suicide attempts, the list goes on and on.. oh yea, one of my favorites, falling into the microwave at 10:00 am so drunk, I had to have my head stapled.. too many to count or recall although with 3 days sober, I am getting some clarity. -
Reply #9 07/02/08 2:40am
My bottom came when I survived a suicide attempt. I consumed copious qty's of prescription medication- sleeping pills, Tylenol 3, sedatives (atavin)- every single prescription in my medicine cabinet I could get my hands on and then on I went empty bottles of Gravol,aspirin, Advil, Motrin,Robaxacet- after drinking a 26of Vodka- in order to guarantee my success.
By the Grace of God,my higher power- only divine intervention could have possibly saved me from my goal. It took me 36 hours to wake up, but I woke with a different vision.
He believes in me, loves me just as I am and must have one hell of a future planned for me.
Far be it for me to decide when I am done with this so called life. We weren't designed to orchestrate our arrival & departure times..
As a result, I was able to get through the arch of Step 3,surrender my life and will to my God and trust that he, in his infinite, divine wisdom, power and strength,has my life under his control and it will be far greaterthan anything I could have hoped or dreamed under my own charge.
I am nothing without God, and I would not be here today without his love for me.
The very least I can do to repay that love is to stay sober and let Him do his work in me- in HIS time,not mine. -
Reply #10 07/06/08 12:26pm
Stormi you are such a trooper.I am so proud of you.Great job with step 3.
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