For NHL enforcer Brian McGrattan, rock bottom wasn't turning into a shell of a person, ravaged by drug and alcohol use, locking himself in a dark room for two days and turning off his cellphone to shut out the world.
Nor was it the final "four-day bender," closing in on seven years ago, events lost forever in a cloud of substance abuse during a hazy spree.
It might have seemed to be the morning he woke up and made a tearful phone call to his mother, the emotional decision to get help. But that also was not the lowest point.