In the past few years I've been on KHI I know I've brought up my domestic problems before, but I don't think I've sought advice exclusively on dealing with my mothers illness.
My mother is an alcoholic. She has been drinking for as long as I can remember, but it was never a serious problem before my dad had an affair and our family started to collapse. Her drinking gradually got worse and worse until it peaked last summer and she was literally drunk 24/7. She would spend entire days wandering around my house, drinking in front of me and my younger sister and sobbing like a child. It is beyond my capability to describe how pained I was to watch my mother self destruct like that. Eventually, my older brother and my mothers cousin were able to convince her to check into a rehabilitation center. There, for a course of two weeks, my mother was treated for alcoholism and manic depression, and for nine months after, I enjoyed a peaceful life with my sober mother.
However, this last week, my mother experienced a relapse. It was very minor in the grand scale of things, but it shook me greatly to have nine months of sobriety get washed down the toilet. I still love my mother very much, and she is now sober and doing all she can to stay that way, but I'm having moments of extreme anxiety when I don't know if when my mom picks me up from school, or comes back from work, she'll be drunk. It's really stressing me out. I want to trust my mother, and I don't know how.
Any advice?
My mother is an alcoholic. She has been drinking for as long as I can remember, but it was never a serious problem before my dad had an affair and our family started to collapse. Her drinking gradually got worse and worse until it peaked last summer and she was literally drunk 24/7. She would spend entire days wandering around my house, drinking in front of me and my younger sister and sobbing like a child. It is beyond my capability to describe how pained I was to watch my mother self destruct like that. Eventually, my older brother and my mothers cousin were able to convince her to check into a rehabilitation center. There, for a course of two weeks, my mother was treated for alcoholism and manic depression, and for nine months after, I enjoyed a peaceful life with my sober mother.
However, this last week, my mother experienced a relapse. It was very minor in the grand scale of things, but it shook me greatly to have nine months of sobriety get washed down the toilet. I still love my mother very much, and she is now sober and doing all she can to stay that way, but I'm having moments of extreme anxiety when I don't know if when my mom picks me up from school, or comes back from work, she'll be drunk. It's really stressing me out. I want to trust my mother, and I don't know how.
Any advice?
