What’s your “oh, rock bottom has a basement” story? And how did you recover?

Felt really suicidal for the first time after years of depression. I had quit smoking and drinking two weeks before and was feeling absolutely dreadful. Called the suicide hotline and waited on hold for 20 minutes only for nobody to answer. So I hung up and just cried for hours.

Then I remembered people on reddit talking about how they also felt suicidal but challenged themselves to read all of their books or make a bucket list to do before actually doing the deed. I had just bought Dune, so I decided to start it and I couldn’t put it down. While reading it, I fell asleep and had a series of dreams (after months of having no dreams at all) in which I was living the life I had always wanted to and I woke up realizing that I actually could do that. Ever since then, I’ve been literally living every day like it’s my last and working on making the art I’ve always dreamed about making.

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