Families & Friends Of Addicts Support Group
Addiction affects more than just the individual. This community is dedicated to the families and friends of individuals suffering from any form of addiction. Mental health professionals are increasingly considering alcoholism and addiction as diseases that flourish in and are enabled by family systems. Family members react to the addicted person with particular behavioral...
what my mum did to me? Shes an alcoholic & im finding it hard to deal with everything else at the moment. Ive come to terms with it and accepted whats happened to her. But everything else around me seems to be bugging me. I hate alcohol. Everything about it. Because of what mum did to me, i cant be around people drinking or getting drunk. I've got my birthday party coming up soon & people are drinking.. I dont know how to deal with it. Even when my friends mention "drinking" or getting pissed i get angry inside. Not at them. At the alcohol. I cant get away from it its all around me. It sounds stupid but sometimes i feel like im going mad. I just need help getting over it...
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Hi all! This is for those of you that have or have had the same neurologist for 4 years or more. I have been with mine now since 2009. He is one of the best movement disorder secialists in the midwest. I know he is extremely busy on the lecture circuit now and in fact not taking new patients there is a huge waiting list for him. BUT.... I feel like my visits are not what they use to be. He...
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I gave my 2 week notice last Friday 13th. Now to join you fine people in a life of leisure and nothing else to do but to look out for myself....is it just me or does that sound pretty boring? My goal was to live to retire and I guess having to take early retirement because of health reasons wasn't exactly the way I had planned things. I just can't stay in that building that is reeking mildew...
i only know alcohol as a 'bad thing'
due to my mum drinking so badly throughout most of my life....ive come to realise that others that drink dont always get violent and abusive.
my 9 yr old daughter has witnessed my mums episodes wen she was younger and now always associates violence with alcohol...to me alcohol is the worst form of 'drug' u can take.xxxx