Hitting Bottom?

Hitting Bottom?


Where did this notion that alcoholics hit a bottom come from?



Did this come from 12 x 12 Bill W. bullshit? Is this in the 164? God, I hope not.



I've heard Mark Houston talk about , "Hit a bottom."



But I disagree with the notion. I don't think there is a bottom bad enough for the alcoholic. It's the fact that I drank again and thought that my drinking was quite alright, "Watch me now." despite past "bottoms" that is baffling.



When I'd wrecked my Nova, I'd sat there in a jail cell, feeling like pounded whale shit... a real fuck-up... I hated me and my life and I would have jumped off if I could have. If you came to me then and told me, "You will drink again and you will think nothing of it." , I think my head would have exploded if it could have. But that's what happened... again and again and again...