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Old 11-01-2013, 12:39 PM
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NWGRITS
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Oh, sweetheart. I know that your pain is so raw right now, and that everything seems so hopeless. Please keep talking to your psychiatrist and to us. There is nothing, NOTHING you could have done. You couldn't force her into treatment, you couldn't make her quit drinking. You couldn't even force any other medical intervention on het unless she was declared legally incapacitated. She seemed to know exactly what she was doing. More than likely, she hid a lot of stuff from you that you probably don't know about. Yes, you were close, but she would only tell you what you wanted to hear. Think about that for a moment. She did NOT want help. Period. That was a choice she made, and no one could have changed the situation. The disease of alcoholism leaves nothing but chaos in its wake, and like suicide, the families are stuck with the burden of the person's illness after the fact. It's not fair to anyone left behind. But just know that this is not your fault. Your mother wanted this, hard as it is to accept. But once you do, things will start moving along, little by little. (((Hugs)))
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