I don't know if this is necessarily the correct place, but I feel like it is
My father is a really, really terrible alcoholic. He has been sober throughout my 25 years, but mostly he's been drinking. Long story short he's lost houses, gotten arrested, lost jobs, and all the usual stuff. Last time he was drinking he lasted three months before he was found by a neighbor in his apartment half dead and he'd been laying there for days blood/poop all over the place. He was in ICU forever, had MRSA and a million other things and they said if he takes a drink he will be dead within well, who knows, weeks? Months?
So he's been sober until now.
And, my little brother is a terrible junkie. He's relapsing left and right, has nothing left to live for, is suicidal and has been in rehabs for the past year and nothing is helping. I just found out he'd been at a mutual friends and she had to bring him home because he was trying to go through her cabinets etc. He's going to die too, and my dad is drinking because he can't deal with my brother and its' all so fucked up
I'm feeling bummed. It sucks because I tried to talk to my Dad and he is saying he's not going to stop drinking until my brother stops relapsing and my brother isn't going to stop because he has no support. I can't help him, and I certainly can't have him staying here because I've got DD and I can't babysit a drug addict. My mother wants nothing to do with him because she's just TIRED from taking care of two addicts, and I know that together they are going to go down down down.
Suicide or OD'ing I'm not sure, but it sucks and it's lingering in the back of my mind every day.
I just wanted to let that out I guess - maybe some advice or something would be grateful, or someone who knows what I'm going through?
My father is a really, really terrible alcoholic. He has been sober throughout my 25 years, but mostly he's been drinking. Long story short he's lost houses, gotten arrested, lost jobs, and all the usual stuff. Last time he was drinking he lasted three months before he was found by a neighbor in his apartment half dead and he'd been laying there for days blood/poop all over the place. He was in ICU forever, had MRSA and a million other things and they said if he takes a drink he will be dead within well, who knows, weeks? Months?
So he's been sober until now.
And, my little brother is a terrible junkie. He's relapsing left and right, has nothing left to live for, is suicidal and has been in rehabs for the past year and nothing is helping. I just found out he'd been at a mutual friends and she had to bring him home because he was trying to go through her cabinets etc. He's going to die too, and my dad is drinking because he can't deal with my brother and its' all so fucked up
I'm feeling bummed. It sucks because I tried to talk to my Dad and he is saying he's not going to stop drinking until my brother stops relapsing and my brother isn't going to stop because he has no support. I can't help him, and I certainly can't have him staying here because I've got DD and I can't babysit a drug addict. My mother wants nothing to do with him because she's just TIRED from taking care of two addicts, and I know that together they are going to go down down down.
Suicide or OD'ing I'm not sure, but it sucks and it's lingering in the back of my mind every day.
I just wanted to let that out I guess - maybe some advice or something would be grateful, or someone who knows what I'm going through?
