How do you pick yourself up from hitting a brutal rock bottom?

[FriendlyChattyChrisy]

Lets say you have hit rock bottom in your life, and everything has been impacted.

Financially you are ruined, legally you are in trouble, and personally you have no relationships of value. Lets say you have lost all hope and any sense of purpose, and struggle to do even the most simple tasks.

How do you build up from such a low place?

[jennifer_bloom]

In middle school, I was unbelievably smart. In the first year of high school, I got a disease that affected my energy levels so much, that even graduating was a very hard thing. I improved by being obsessed with the bible. I got D’s in first year university, and straight A’s in my last 3 years. And my school was ranked number 10 in the world when I first got accepted.

[BetaBucks]

Quit all addictive substance, including the legal ones. Take multiple walks per day. Do at home workouts regularly. Use free forms of entertainment to stay distracted and out of trouble. Find any job, and stick with it until you can find a better job. Keep doing that until you can afford to save for a trade school program. Do the trade school on the side. Avoid all relationships. Finish trade school. Start working. Build life.

This is what I did, minus the relationship part. And the relationship is what almost ruined it all. But I was dirt poor, in debt, in legal trouble, drinking constantly, smoking constantly, mentally all over the place. Now I have a healthy family and I used the trade I was in to pay for higher education and make even better money.

[DryGermanGuy]

"On Robben Island, when things got very bad, I found inspiration in a poem. Just words. But they helped me to stand when all I wanted to do was to lie down."

- Nelson Mandela, Invictus

You should read inspirational literature, for example Mandela's autobiography:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Walk_to_Freedom

[Zack-Bann]

I don’t know.
I’ve been laying on these rocks forever trying to climb out.
And every time I do someone throws a boulder that pins me back down

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

The good news about rock bottom there's nowhere to go but up so you might as well get up because the future is bright.

The key to success is to never stop.