Hi Everyone,

I have been watching my mom’s well being and health plummet for the past year after losing her job. She now has come into the grips of alcohol and drinking as a way to cope with her feelings of hopelessness. She is to the point where she hides bottles of tequila around the house, steals money to get alcohol and lies about her drinking. She drinks all day and into the night, while not eating, taking allergy and blood pressure medications. She is in complete denial she has a problem even after being told how our family feels about this.

My family which includes my father, my brother and myself have tried to tell her how we feel about this and trying to find out why she is doing this to herself, she keeps it all bottled up and won’t speak her mind to us. We have poured out alcohol we have found hidden and taken away money as well as her car keys to limit her from drinking..

But it has come to the point where she has recently walked drunk to the store and fell in the parking hitting her head to where she got a concussion and ended up in the ER, this wasn’t the first time she has fallen from being drunk and been to the hospital. It is cycle she continues to go through.

She continues to drink and seeing her so weak she doesn’t want to face life anymore. I am so ashamed and fear she is going to die because of this addiction.

I need the strength to be strong but I have feel so helpless as my father is giving up on their marriage and his love for her.. I don’t know what to do.

I love my mother so much. What more can I do?