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Intoxicated Difficult Child Went To ER - Suicidal
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<blockquote data-quote="WiseChoices" data-source="post: 752327" data-attributes="member: 24254"><p>You have been affected by the disease for sure just living with your ex. Open AA meetings are an excellent tool to learn more about the disease of alcoholism. We have even had some folks come for grief work (he was not an alcoholic but the 12 steps and the meetings helped him to deal with the loss of his wife) and and for mental health issues other than alcoholism . Meetings are like medicine through the ears. They calm people down. </p><p></p><p>I can also suggest the AA Big Book - the first 164 pages are information about alcoholism including a chapter to wives and chapters about how to treat it for the alcoholic in the program. The remaining pages are stories of recovering alcoholics - what they used to be like and who they are now .You can pick up a big book at any AA meeting. Even Amazon should carry it. </p><p></p><p>It is so important to understand the disease - not just for the alcoholic but also family members, adult children of alcoholics and people formerly married to alcoholics. When you understand the disease , you understand your reactions to it. And you hear first hand in meetings what worked and didn't work for alcoholics.</p><p></p><p>Most alcoholics will tell you that they needed tough love and they needed to come to the end of themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WiseChoices, post: 752327, member: 24254"] You have been affected by the disease for sure just living with your ex. Open AA meetings are an excellent tool to learn more about the disease of alcoholism. We have even had some folks come for grief work (he was not an alcoholic but the 12 steps and the meetings helped him to deal with the loss of his wife) and and for mental health issues other than alcoholism . Meetings are like medicine through the ears. They calm people down. I can also suggest the AA Big Book - the first 164 pages are information about alcoholism including a chapter to wives and chapters about how to treat it for the alcoholic in the program. The remaining pages are stories of recovering alcoholics - what they used to be like and who they are now .You can pick up a big book at any AA meeting. Even Amazon should carry it. It is so important to understand the disease - not just for the alcoholic but also family members, adult children of alcoholics and people formerly married to alcoholics. When you understand the disease , you understand your reactions to it. And you hear first hand in meetings what worked and didn't work for alcoholics. Most alcoholics will tell you that they needed tough love and they needed to come to the end of themselves. [/QUOTE]
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