My father has been an alcoholic for 16 years. What do you think worked to make you realize you should take help seriously? I am on holiday with him and my brother but last night he went to buy alcohol sneakily and and fell down for being drunk, the police took him to the hospital and needed stitches. Not a big accident, he said sorry today but still is acting as if last night was just a minor thing. Everytime I say something for his well being or place a limit he thinks I hate him.

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He has to want it. My advice to you would be to go to an Al anon meeting for friends and family of alcoholics to get support and guidance. Your choice is to decide to accept him as he is, flawed and drunk, or cut off or minimize contact.

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As an alcoholic who's 5 years sober he's not going to change by you telling him he needs to. He has to want it for himself but if it is trauma related like mine was you got to fix what's broken before you can rip the Band-Aid off! It's hard it's scary it's non-stop in your brain at first but it never goes away. Knowing what he's going up against will be beneficial for you educate yourself on what it's like to be an alcoholic and maybe you can be there for him better I know it's frustrating because even as an alcoholic myself I've also dealt with alcoholics it's a hard disease to understand also one of the hardest to kick but I agree with the other comment up there about an Al-Anon meeting. Not only would that be very beneficial for you and potentially him in the long run joining support groups on Facebook is also helpful! Good luck!!

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Tell him you love him and he’s a great guy that can do anything he sets his mind to.

Lost my father last month after a 5 year struggle. He lost $ million + in that time. Everyone’s story is different but DM if you want to chat. Anytime

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I was addicted to Alcohol and Heroin for 6 years I have now been clean for 2 years. The only advice I can give you is just be there for him when he falls go to meetings with him people who have addiction issues need positive energy 24/7 it's hard but that's what is keeping me clean my family are active in e everything I do my sister calls me every day just stay strong keep faith things will get better.

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Also every time I try to tell him something he always brings up how he always gave us the best of the best financially and it ended up taking a toll on him.

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Know that none of that is your fault or your responsibility. We were all kids and we never asked for anything, except to be loved and cared for and protected. As a kid we didn’t care about the “best of the best”, but somewhere along the way our parents believed a falsehood that money = safety and money = love and money = success.

For most of us (the lucky ones) our parents were doing the best they could with what they have, but unfortunately they weren’t equipped with the tools needed to provide an environment free from some level of dysfunction. In their attempt to keep us free from the pain THEY felt as children, they’ve managed to recreate it and pass it on (again, because they know no other way, and they don’t even realize they’re doing it).

Without some level of therapy or recovery, we’re basically destined to continue the legacy of family dysfunction. Taking the smallest steps today can have a massive impact on what your own life will look like in 1, 5, 10 + years.

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I had to hear my story told by someone else who lived the horror. I had to hear them describe the feelings and the pain, and recognize that though they might look totally different from me and have a totally different story, the way they felt is EXACTLY how I felt. I also had to hear enough stories to believe that if I kept drinking the way I was drinking, it was only a matter of time before things got worse (and that there was no possible way they wouldn’t get worse). Eventually I would get a DUI, hurt myself or someone else, or hurt myself intentionally. And finally, I had to SEE that this AA program actually works. That it’s actually possible to get and stay sober.

The TL/DR version of all this (as I’ve experienced it) is as follows:
- Surrender is necessary for AA to work.
- Family members of alcoholics benefit tremendously from Al-Anon.
- ACA/ACoA is another incredibly powerful program for the family member of an alcoholic.

We can’t fix or change an active alcoholic, but we can start to heal from the impacts if we start working on ourselves.

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