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    • How do I live my life

      My dad has had issues with alcohol misuse all my life. As a veteran with severe ptsd, he has used alcohol to numb his memories. The last few months, he has been drunk every...

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      Posted by: pixiepenelope
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    • 77 year old mum

      Mum has always had a few drinks but after my dad died in 2021 it has become progressively worse. I'm 45 and she is 77. She lives alone most of the time but family come to...

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      Posted by: rachel
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    • One of three

      This is a mess. I’m approaching my 40s. One of three children of an alcoholic parent. Two years ago we found him, nearly dead at the bottom of his stairs, he’d fallen and being...

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      Posted by: thisisamess
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    • Mum’s gone

      My mum has been an alcoholic all my life. The last decade things got worse and worse, and she died from decompensated liver disease on 3rd March. I have been trying to make her better...

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      Posted by: daffodil
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    • Is this alcohol related?

      I’m in a really difficult place right now and could use some advice on navigating a situation that has only grown more complicated over time. A few years ago, I went through cancer treatment, and...

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      Posted by: ephe1
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    • Birthdays

      I could only wish for you to feel at peace that was all you ever deserved I can't pretend this doesn't come with a heavy sadness you aren't here with us we don't get to...

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      Posted by: tm19x
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Recent topics

  • Reaching out
    My partner has been sober for a while however he is no longer worker. I went to work one day and came back and I…
  • Alcoholic and manipulator MOTHERS
    Anyone here with alcoholic and masterly manipulative mother? I know some alcoholics are clumsy and ‘fun’ but mine was and is so evil when drunk…
  • Reaching out
    Hey so I'm new here and this is the first time I think I have ever shared my experience, partly because I'm the youngest of…
  • Trapped
    Hi everyone This isn’t a new thing I have just been struggling a bit more with it lately. When ever I get home from school…
  • Navigating grief
    Hi all, I'm new here and usually just view the message boards. I lost my dad in October 2025 to an alcohol overdose, he was…

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  • Hi, Thank you so much for sharing here and I’m so sorry to hear about what you’re having to navigate with your partner. It sounds…
    listener on Reaching out
  • Thank you so much for sharing your experience - so many will relate to the different things you have shared about growing up with an…
    elisastar on Reaching out
  • Hi Thanks for reaching out and posting on this site. In my case it was my father who would disappear into his study with whisky…
    papaya29 on Alcoholic and manipulator MOTHERS
  • Hi Just wanted to say you're not alone in feeling like this and hope it's been helpful in reaching out on here. As the previous…
    papaya29 on Reaching out
  • Hi my mum was an alcoholic and I totally get it . I lost and grieved my mum little by little every day . When…
    kezza2 on Alcoholic and manipulator MOTHERS

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