Sober Bottom

Whatever is a "sober bottom?"  I have heard people say that they hit their bottom.  Usually, the blame can be placed upon some other thing, such as drugs, alcohol, food, pornography, sex.  Or it can be placed upon another person, relationship, job, or job loss, financial poverty.  Always it is something other than themselves to blame.  A sober bottom is when you have let go of something, but your life has once again become a mess.  This is when you cannot blame something or someone.  You are the problem, and simply giving up something or someone is not the entire solution.  Maybe you are beginning to doubt the God or Power that you thought had been on your side.  For me, a sober bottom is one where I can still have faith, because I believe that my God removed something, in order to open me to something better.  This transition is painful.  Maybe I had slacked off the spiritual work, and so now I must realize the penalty for that.  I am either going forward or going backward and downward to yet another bottom.