Originally Posted by
littlefish 
As a recovering/recovered alcoholic getr345, can you think of how you might help in a 12step way?
If he had not just won a million dollars I suppose I could think of ways to help him or reach out to him (although the truth is I rarely talk to him, and only learn about him through his x-gf who will always be a friend of our family) but now that he's has all that money and all that baggage, I just cannot imagine offering him the type of help that I have offered others who were struggling with drugs and/or alcohol, which I feel like I understand and can relate to. I don't understand the gambling issue enough to offer help and on top of that I can see how any offers of help might be seen all wrong, like somehow I want to get to his money, or I'm jealous, or like I'm the crazy one offering "help" to a man who just got all the help he ever thought he needed in the form of like 6 or 7 hundred thousand dollars after taxes.