My mom is an amazing woman... she's done so much for herself and her children. Now that we are all grown (at 24, I am her youngest child), she has taken to drinking on occasion, which is okay... but in the last year, her fiancee hit her and they split, my sister and her started fighting all the time, my aunt died, my other aunt got breast cancer, and numerous other things have gone wrong. My mom went from drinking on occasion to drinking every day. Sometimes she's drunk by noon, sometimes 10am. I've tried to talk her into AA, and I've tried to talk her into rehab, but she won't do either. Now she gets the shakes (withdrawals) if she doesn't drink within a couple of hours of waking up. She sleeps more than ever before, she has no energy, she's turning into more of an alcoholic than I could have ever imagined. I love my mom to death, but I don't know how to help her. Should I stage an intervention? If so, how do I go about doing that? Can I get her checked into rehab? HELP!!!
2006-12-12
15:20:47
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