I'm glad you found this site my friend. Your mom's story is tragic, but it does not change the FACT that she is an alcoholic. There is no question of it. You know this. Accept it. There is, however, recovery for her if she chooses to go and get it via a treatment center, AA, or both.
I cannot imagine how hard this must be for you, but you can't stop her from drinking. It is, literally, impossible to stop an alcohlic from drinking permanently. Berate and lecture her all you want, but you are wasting your time and breath. She'll say and promise anything as long as you will provide her a place to drink and be drunk, just like you are doing right now.
Alcoholics need help to continue drinking. They need money, a place to live, people who will clean up after then and cover for them, and people who will put up with it. Even better is somebody who will keep alcohol in the house! As long as they have those things they are money!
Only she can stop her drinking, and only if she wants to, and only if she is strong enough to work a program of recovery for what remains of her life.
Read the stickies above before you do anything else, as many of them as you can, and find yourself an Al-Anon or Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOA) meeting in your area. That's recovery for you, and through it you will find the experience, strength, and hope to make the decisions you need to make, whatever those decisions turn out to be.
God bless her, for as long as she lives with you, an alcoholic will be living with you. And, as far as I'm concerned, that's a pretty tough road when you are in college and trying to build a future for yourself.
Sorry my friend, and good luck as you travel the road of addiction and or/recovery with the rest of us (for me it's my wife, rather than my mother).
Cyranoak
Originally Posted by
foool 
Well first and foremost, I'm Eric, I'm 22 years old and go to college and am in my own place. Long story short my mom finally got over her bf of years that beat her (she drank alot there too) so now she lives with me. I'm noticing ALOT of problems. First she finds pints of vodka in her purse. She will drink my alcohol in the house, wont tell me unless I call her out on it which I have had to do. She goes to my dads house every week, for a few days, and ALWAYS comes back drunk. I dont what to do, it kills me that this is happening (recently she had a seizure and the dr. said in front of all of us that it was because of alcohol and she could have died) I really thought that would've hit her but no. I can tell when she drinks and I immediately get annoyed when I see her tipsy. Any advice how to deal with her? I just want my mom back..