Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit rock bottom?
I&#x27;d agree with some other comments here that you are pretty far away from rock bottom.<p>Rock bottom is a complete dismantling of your life. Failed relationships (romantic, friendly, professional, etc), lost job, bills piling up, apartment a disaster, inability to build a mental model that can cope with your current situation.<p>It looks more like you&#x27;re in a relative minimum. From what I understand about psychology a healthy balanced life generally follows a pattern of building yourself up to a relative maximum, getting something completely wrong that challenges the framework you&#x27;ve built to orient yourself in the world, hitting a relative minimum, and learning to build yourself back up to a new relative maximum.<p>Consider the alternative, where there are no relative minimums. That would imply you either know everything, in which case your trajectory would be completely flat or ascending indefinitely. Well, that certainly can&#x27;t be the case because not even the most brilliant people in history knew everything.<p>There is no advice or shortcut we can give that your therapist hasn&#x27;t given you. These things take time. There is something about life that you&#x27;ve gotten wrong. This is your opportunity to learn what it is, fix it, build a new mental model, and prepare yourself to not make the same mistakes again.<p>You&#x27;re in the fortunate position to have a lot of opportunity. More people are in the dysfunctional family history boat than you think. Sounds like you&#x27;ve done well, despite that.<p>Keep going.