In addiction circles the cliche term is “hitting bottom”. We don’t know very much about why/how this event happens. My old sponsor in a 12 step group had a story different than the addiction we were both decades clean from. He smoked cigarettes heavily for 30 years. Many times he surrendered the habit and prayed to “God”. Didn’t even make a speed bump. Then one day after coughing up blood a doctor told him in a year you’ll be on an oxygen bottle. Then he REALLY prayed, really had the “bottom”. He never smoked again. He would laugh and say, “Well, see all those times before when I quit I swore I was serious and sincere but until the day with the doctor, well, I guess I was just kidding.” I so wish we knew more about the psychic event this story describes. Someday maybe we will have the means to evoke the moment earlier in the process.