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.

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.

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.

Wow what a great story JennaS

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Stormi you are such a trooper.I am so proud of you.Great job with step 3.

I also have had several rock bottoms, but this last one FINALLY woke my arse up.
Recently losing a beloved family member we had to go visit family and decided to take my mother with us. She is a bad alcoholic. I had 3 weeks of sobriety under my belt and it all went to hell in a handbasket. My mother got drunk became obnoxious and I had a few drinks to cope with her and the loss of our family member. My mother started saying horrible things and I lost it. I physically went after her, my husband had to get between us. Had I gotten ahold of her, I hate to say what would have happened. All the years of abuse I took from her as a child and even now as a grown women came out in a rage that was horrible. I am still very bruised and battered from my husband having to hold me down to control me. I scared the heck out of him, his family and myself.
Anyway, they called the cops. I found myself in the back of a police car with a VERY pissed of cop. I never said a word, kept my head down while he verbally abused and trashed me. It continued until we got to the hotel where my husband met us and my husband had to tell the cop to knock it off because he was saying horrible things to me. Not once did I say a word or look up in fear that he would hurt me (the cop).
I was not allowed back to the house for 2 days, my daughter was kept from me, it was HORRIBLE. I will NEVER touch alcohol again, it ALMOST destroyed my life.
I'm taking control back, have found a wonderful, supportive program and am FINALLY on the right track! :0)
I'm glad to have found this board and thank you everyone for sharing such difficult stories.

mine might be today... i just joined the site because my hubby has had it with me drinking and hiding it. I"m really worried and stressed out over what is going to happen.

well, i don't think that friday turned out to be my bottom... hub was supportive and i am trying to get sober.

but this brings up a question... do you guys think that someone needs a really bad rock bottom to finally get the message????? my hubby had a pretty bad incident that spurred him to finally get sober (although an OD and an arrest didn't seem to do the trick before this last thing).

so really, what about those of us who don't have a catastrophic bottom???? how does it sink in that we need to finally get a grip on drinking???? knowing that you "might" hit bottom doesn't seem to be enough for me.

For me i was trying to stop daily unsucessfully for weeks on end and not being able to.

Then one day few months ago, i went to a councelling session, early in morning ,and id not drunk that day because i didnt have time.

That session opened a tiny gap in a window of oppurtinity in not drinking that day, and i clung on with all my strength.

Im still holding on few months later, but guess that windows opened a little more, so its getting bit easier to hold on.

I drang lots of times because of i felt injustice at my crimnal record, (i bit a police officer when drunk} serious offence here,
and even though it was 16 years ago , i am still blocked from most occupations i want to do,
i cant work with people ever again basically, even on voluntary basis, im not even allowed in my own kids school to help out!
Just from that one offence.It will never be removed from my record.

Now i have made decision to do other things in life and forget about what im not allowed to do,
and stop being angry about it,
I cant change the law, but can change my life and my kids, by not drinking or using drugs anymore.

I believe that I have also had so many rock bottoms. Rape, humiliation, and just straight up poor judgment and decisions. My most recent is screwing up the best relationship that I have ever had with a longtime friend by stealing money from him while I was drunk. Don't remember doing this but it involved so much more than just stealing. The things that we do when we give into our disease are just not worth it! Good luck to everyone on here!