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My Friend's Alcoholic Mother
My friends' mother is an alcoholic. She is constantly drunk, belligerent, and aggressive, yells and passes out in front of guests. Her children cant stand living in the house anymore, but despite numerous calls to child services and the police, they have been told that there is nothing that can be done unless the mother seriously injures one of them. I fear for my friends, the stability of the family, and their mental well-being. All of the family members are kind and caring people but at home, they are constantly at each-other's throats and on the verge of a possibly much more serious problem. Is there any way to force this mother into a rehabilitation program? I really appreciate any insight you can provide, my friends are at the breaking point and feel there are no options left.
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Hi,
Yes there are several options left. Sometimes kids who grow up in this type of household are very resilient and turn out to be highly functional adults. So don't lose hope for them.
The first thing to do would be to contact a counselor at a drug and and acohol rehab program and ask for information about an intervention. Approach other (sober) adult members of this family about the intervention, once you get information. (Grandparents, aunts, uncles and so on.)
The kids living in the home should attend a program such as alateen, but I want to warn you if the mother finds out she will be very angry, so I would suggest the intervention first.
Good luck and let us know how things are with these people!
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Oh wow. Lemme tell you, my mother was an alcholic for as long as i can remember. And i have a pretty good idea of what your friend is going through. Make sure to keep in communication w/ her always, you never know what could be going on at that house. Constantly have her and her siblings over, and maybe have another adult talk to the mother. The mother obviously needs help from someone more then her kids. As for her kids depending on how they feel, they should make the final decision. Try telling them to talk to her when shes sober, and have them say they think it would be a good idea if she went to a rehab place. We tryed talking my mother into it and it took a while but she finally ended up going to one.. but other things happened from there. Make sure they research the rehab place and understand where shes going to be. They should def. call another family member to stay with and have talk to their mother, possibly someone close to the mother, their grandma, aunt, uncle or anyone like that. BUT make sure you know that their <b>are</b> options left. And that everything will eventually work out, their mother just need help now. They just need their mom to want to go to rehab and then it will be easy to send her there. Keep me updated, and hopefully everything works out. ♥ Much love
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hey, theres no way to force her. the only thing i would suggest is for the children to move out ASAP. cait ♥ = ].
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