My son is an alcoholic. He is almost 26. His life is a disaster. The alcohol is killing him. He has been in the hospital 4 times in the last year with alcohol related problems. Alcohol overdose, pancreatitis, and 2 seisures due to the binging and withdrawels. Actually,it's now 5 times because the police took him to the hospital yesterday for assaulting his father and grandfather while grossly intoxicated. I live in constant fear of a phone call saying he's dead. In my head I know there's nothing I can do. He's been in detox many times,rehad for a month twice, the most recent 3 weeks ago. For the most part I appear to be handling all of this well, but inside I'm just crazy with the pain of knowing that my son has chosen this destructive path for himself. The problem is I have no one who understands what I'm going through.My husband is so angry with him for making me upset that I have to fake being happy for his sake. My son's brother and sister are no help whatsoever,just feeling that this is something he's done to himself and that he should just be able to stop. I guess I just needed to vent. Like I said, there's no one around me who understands how I feel.
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Hi Karall,
Al-Anon offers support to family members of those afflicted with this disease. Try to find your local chapter, you are not alone.
Good luck.
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I have a brother who has been in the hospital 7 timesfrom drinking.He has siezers and goes into phycosis from the amount of alchol he drinks. He has also been to rehab but started back at it again. I no how you feel its hard to watch but i have to agree with your other kids you cant make him stop it is his choice and he has to be the one to do it. The last time my brother went to the hospital it was by police as well and he ended up on the physic ward for a month I tried to help him but all i got was lies and now he will no longer talk to me.Good luck and i hope your son gets well soon
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I think I do understand how you feel ,, All I can say is PLEASE tray giving it to the good LORD ..win all is lost the lord is with you I know that this my NOT same like a thing to say but I hope the 4 of you will fined a CHURCH and go to it . I am asking you to do this OK ?? THIS is just my HELP.. TO the 4 of you ..with understanding LOVE from.. Hazlehurst GA USA my call name on this page is CHIPDIPE
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I can say that unless your an alcoholic you will never understand how difficult the struggle is to stop drinking. I am 46 years old and have been binge drinking for about 8 years. It has caused me so much agony and my family so much agony. I have 2 DUI's and legal issues. I got them within 6 years of each other and its worse now than ever. My family doesn't understand why one just can't stop it, but until they talk to someone or get some help from others who have been in the same position and can understand the disease/addiction they will not understand. I just came off a 2 day binge and am really scared this time for my health. My lower back/right side is hurting really bad its almost unbearable. I have decided to go to a rehab center here on Monday for my assessment and evaluation. I really really hope this will help me. I also heard about a medication that got great reviews and I have heard nothing but good things about it Maybe you can google it and read about it. I am going to ask my doctor at the rehab about it, maybe your son will go see someone when it gets bad enough....(acamprosate)
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