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    • 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 I never really go anywhere because my mum is...

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    • Anger

      Hello everyone I wanted to come on and talk about something I haven’t really noticed before. It’s that when my mum drinks she seems to get really angry about small things that don’t really...

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    • Feeling lonely

      Hello. I am new to this group and want to know how other people are dealing with feeling lonely. I am only 10 with 2 older siblings supporting me and I sometimes feel bad...

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    • The Anger.

      Hi!, this is my first time posting on here so a bit iffy, my teacher told me about this and printed some stuff out for me and I found that it had a message...

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    • Endless cycle

      I genuinely dont see how my mum will ever get sober, today started off ok and then we went out to lunch, she said she knew today was going to be stressful so she...

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    • Can never quite get it right

      Being around drunk people is insufferable as is but especially when it’s your mum who you know is going to start yelling any minute now, today I was trying to avoid her in the...

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  • 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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