My Father Is an Alcoholic..please Help Me?
Question by LovelyK: My father is an alcoholic..please help me?
My father always tells me “oh i’m just gonna have one beer”..then it turns into two then three then into about five or six beers. I am too scared to confront him because he always say it won’t happen again but it keeps happening and it’s a never ending cycle..he is wasting money on alcohol..and he mixes it with sleeping pills too and I don’t know what to do.. I know he has a bad branch of friends..and I want to tell all of his awful friends to back off…
I tried just about everything, what can i do?!
Best answer:
Answer by savemefromstupidity
take him to rehab
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Denial in the prominent symptom of alcoholism. “It’s only beer”, “I only drink at night”, “I don’t have to drive until tomorrow morning”. The excuses go on and on.
An alcoholic will only engage in treatment when he feels that things are so bad for him that they can not possibly get worse. This is called hitting bottom. Your father has to hit bottom and chose treatment. Nothing you do will expedite that decision. Trying to talk an alcoholic out of drinking will have the same level of success as trying to talk a cancer patient out of his cancer. Alcoholism is as much of a disease as cancer.
At this point, you need to take care of yourself. Join AL-ANON or Ala-teen. You will meet people who have been where you are now. They can provide both emotional support to you and tell you how they coped with the situation you’re now in.
Best of luck,
Sean Roberts
i honestly know. my father is one too. he always says “oh ill stop honey, itll be okay, im on the right track now.” then 3 days later i am heart broken! but they best thing to do is to actually take a stand and ssay something to him. it might not help, but it just might make him reconsider that “one” beer. stay strong.