What was the lowest point in your life? How old were you and how did you recover from it?

Do I have to pick just one?

I'm not 100% sure how old I was, maybe 16-17. My parents were about to divorce, I was one angry teen, I got into smoking meth a few months prior. I didn't give a shit about anything but drugs. My parents told me to either go to rehab (again) or GTFO, so I packed up a couple of garbage bags with my shit and hopped on a bus. It was the middle of winter, I didn't know where I was going... and to this day I'm still not sure where I went that night, or what I did. I know I stayed at a friend's for a couple of weeks, on their couch. I got them into meth, too, and acid. I broke back into my parents' house numerous times, blatantly emptied their wallets, broke into their safe, pawned their treasured heirlooms. Maybe a month (no idea, really, it could have been a week) later, I remember having the worst stomach cramps I'd ever experienced. It was like no pain ever before. My friend was at work, and I didn't have a phone, so I went to call my mom from a payphone about a block away. I remember crawling across a busy street - fucking CRAWLING - because I was in so much pain. I managed to call her, and she took me to the hospital where they told me I had killed all the bacteria in my gut and gave me probiotics and some painkillers (which I probably abused). I was in that pain for another few days as far as I remember. I don't know where I went after the hospital, probably to my parents'. I was on so many drugs and so fucked up I can't give a straight timeline for anything. So much is missing from my memory.

I recovered, slowly. I finally quit doing meth when a couple of 'friends' started physically fighting over the smallest amount. I just got fed up. I didn't go for treatment. I probably drank instead. I would get fits of uncontrollable white rage and destroy entire rooms, smashing windows, setting shit on fire, screaming, flailing, probably for about 4-5 years after that (maybe more). I don't know what 'recovered' means. I'm only a couple months into recovery from alcohol abuse, 14 years later.

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