leviathan

Some of us are lucky enough to realise that things are just going to continue to get worse unless we quit. A rock bottom is sometimes the wakeup call. Not required, though.

Most of us with rock bottom stories slid right by a bunch of serious red flags on the way and pretended not to notice.

CAPTAINZING2000

This summed it up for me

http://www.aa.org/assets/en_US/en_bigbook_chapt3.pdf

Page 30 from the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous

Chadalkieaddikt

Bam and Bam💥. We learned that we had to fully concede to our innermost selves that we were alcoholics. This is the first step in recovery.

advbike

I just didn't like the way my life was going anymore. I hadn't gotten a DUI, or lost a job or my home, but I was really stuck. Bored, unhappy, lonely, with lots of dreams and no action. I knew I had a problem, but I wasn't sure what it was, and the years were passing by. Well I finally quit and everything changed. Mostly for the better, not always, because life has ups and downs, and we make mistakes sometimes. But.. I'm definitely not sitting home dreaming anymore, haha. I'm out living my life, for better and worse, and it feels great.