How do you know when you've hit rock bottom? So often people think that their life can't get any worse but low and behold something knocks them down a little more than before. So again I ask you, how do you know you've hit rock bottom? When the whole world has turned their backs on you and you feel completely alone in the universe? When you become homeless? When you are broke? When you are literally starving because you can't afford even a loaf of bread? Is there a definition to it in wiki-pedia? The definition of rock bottom is this: blah, blah, blah. I wish that there was a universal definition out there so that patients like myself who battle mental illness would be aware of. Because lemme be the first to tell you that all those things I mentioned earlier I have been through. Right down to sleeping under a bridge. Not one of my proudest moments I assure you. And me having mental illness as bad as I do and didn't deal with it at all. I wanted to die. I had no bubble to hide in and my situation was on display for the world to see. Which in turn sent my social anxiety into overdrive.