Old 05-28-2007, 12:55 PM
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minnie
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Sad, attractiveness is not necessarily the key ingredient in finding a new enabler, although it certainly helps. Healthy people keep at arms length from unhealthy people, no matter what they look like.

Antabuse and Campral certainly can help, although if the drinker doesn't want to stop, then they will find ways to get around taking them. In the many hundreds of case studies I have witnessed on this site and others, having the enablers get out of the way of the bottom* that they need to find is probably more effective.

So, tell me, what help are you getting for YOU?

*contrary to popular opinion, rock bottom does not have to be skid row. Each bottom is individual (fnar) and may be anything from the threat of losing a spouse or a job, or a health scare to eating out of dumpsters and living in a cardboard box. It is a psychological bottom, rather than an environmental one.
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