Hi everyone After reading many wonderful, honest and sometimes very painful posts I don't feel so alone. For years I tried to heal myself. I have had wonderful therapists but I wasn't ready to face the demons in my closet. At 33 I am ready now. I do know I can't do it alone. So here I am. My father ...

I need some words of encouragement and some advice. My mom is an alcoholic. She goes through spurts of sobriety, but lately it seems she is drinking a lot more frequently. She binges and when she tries to get sober she has episodes of hallucinations, vomiting, shaking, etc. She knows that I will onl...

Roles in an Alcoholic Family The Alcoholic - other family members revolve around this person - likely to be experiencing quite a bit of pain and shame even though they may not see it as the result of excessive alcohol or drug use - as things get worse, the alcoholic is faced with increasing feelings...

OK so I'm new here and i really dont know how this works, but i'm just gonna tell my story. My father and I used to be very very close. We used to do everything together. We used to go camping all the time, he used to love the outdoors. Well so my dad drinks a lot. He goes to work comes home and dri...

Hi Everyone, first of all thank you for taking your time in reading my post, it means a lot because I am really at the end of the rope here. I really don't know how I can summarize my problem but I will try as best as I can. I had a real rough time with my parents growing up. My dads a stubborn Euro...

Hello...I don't frequent this side of SR, but I need to today. I am an alcoholic...so is my father. I got into a bad fight with him last night...he always knows what to say to get under my skin and really peev me off. I was becoming violent last night....not towards people, but there was a lot of sc...

Hello everyone: I'm not sure where to start - or rather what to save for other postings, I suppose; this is my first experience with any kind of online support group. Alcoholic mother, died shortly after I proposed to my fiancee. Only just now seeing the depth of the dysfunction in my choices in how...

Lately, I've been realizing that a major obstacle to what's been holding me back in life is a deep fear of success. I think this is directly tied to my mother. Whether she instilled it in me herself (at some times she did), or if it's guilt, I've always been afraid of becoming happy and successful t...

Earlier tonight I came across a baby picture of my mother that makes me want to cry every time I see it. There is a look of fear and anguish in her eyes, and I know where it comes from (I'll get to that in a second). But everytime I see that photo, all my anger towards her simply evaporates and I ju...

Hi everyone, I'm new here and have never really talked about any of this stuff on any kind of board. Anyway, here's my situation: I have the world's greatest mom... when she's sober. When she drinks, she turns into a completely different person and can be truly nasty and mean. She's been struggling ...