“Rock bottom” suggests a person has lost (or is about to lose) someone or something they can't stand to live without – a loved one, a place to live, a career, a relationship.
noun. : the lowest or most fundamental part or level.
Hitting rock bottom wakes you up to how you were relying on externals to make you happy. Instead of needing outside validation, you begin to trust yourself and start the journey within to find your own sense of self, your own sense of purpose, and your own validation.
There are different reasons why a person may feel they've reached the bottom. Some of these reasons could be a failure in marriage, loss of job, loss of a home, or even drug addiction.
Rock bottom can last from days to years. There can be many contributions leading to one, including having an injury or illness, break-ups, suffering a trauma, bereavement, economic insecurity, excessive stress, job loss or business failure.
Generally, rock bottom refers to a time or an event in life that causes an addict to reach the lowest possible point in their disease. It is a time when the person feels like things cannot get worse for them. Their life has been damaged so badly that it seems like there is nothing good left to destroy.
The best way for friends and family to help someone at rock bottom is to enter their own recovery groups, such as Al-Anon or Families Anonymous, and even see a counselor or therapist. Never let your guard down and think they were at rock bottom because they lost things and learned their lesson.
But here's the thing. The whole notion of having to wait till someone hits “rock bottom” in order to change, specifically when it comes to substance use, is an urban myth. A very popular one granted, but still, a myth. It's simply not true that someone has to wait to hit “rock bottom” before they can change.
Quotes. Buster Moon : When you've reached rock bottom, there's only one way to go, and that's up!
Once you hit rock bottom, the only way left to go is up
It is also a chance for redemption. Once you are at rock bottom, you can only go up. It is a point where you can perform some self-discovery, create a plan on how to achieve new goals and eventual success. Rock bottom has many sorrows attached to it.
The policy should be to fix the price at rock-bottom below which it is impossible to produce sheep except at a loss. Indeed, with our football team at the bottom of the league, we are at rock-bottom. By 1924 we had reached what we thought was rock-bottom. It is what is described as a rock-bottom standard.
idiom. : in a very thorough way. We cleaned/searched the house from top to bottom.
Most of the time, from what I can gather from personal experience, “rock bottom” has become a metaphor for any amount of “hard times” and lost its matte black lust and the ideology attached to it.
If something has reached rock bottom, it is at such a low level that it cannot go any lower. Morale in the armed forces was at rock bottom.
Think of starting at the bottom as the foundation for a bigger future. At the bottom, you'll discover the value of focused energy, faith, action and trust in yourself and the people in your organization. Build your accomplishments on those foundational elements and you'll be absolutely astonished at your progress.
It's a flat back bump, so it's not difficult for a trained pro wrestler to take. It will hurt, but it has a very low chance of injuring the person taking it. The wrestler taking it will try to land as flat as possible and break their fall with their feet and arm if possible.
The expression, “hit rock bottom,” was popularized by Alcoholics Anonymous and has become part of our common language. Usually it means that a person has reached a point where there is nothing else to lose. There is no lower place to fall to; you've reached the rock bottom.