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My mom was a drug addict. I couldnt save her but i feel it is my obligation to help others. What would i have to go to college for and how long?

I have been sober for over 15 years however I have gained 100 lbs. I am over 50 years old and I was pregnant 3 times, quit smoking and have a stressed life with Autistic child and abusive mother. I may be bipolar from all the stress in life and being a reformed drug addict. Is there something I can or should be taking to control my weight gain and depression together? Thanks for all your honest and knowledgable answers.

I am devastated i just found out my husband of 10 years has been addicted to pornagraphy and talking to other women.. I have always been the devoted wife and mother… I’m ready to give up on our marriage and don’t think he can change… has anyone ever gone through this?. I mean i really HAD NO IDEA… he was really a good husband and father and there was no warning signs…he says he wants to change but can u?

My father is always gambling, and my mother is constantly rambling about how gambling has taken over my dad’s mind, how he’s addicted to it. I was just wondering whether my mom could be right about this. If there is such a thing as gambling addiction and can this be treated?

i can’t quit weed. my friends are really no help they say “oh well just don’t do it”, sometimes its not that simple. my mom is a recovering addict of harder drugs and i really want her help quitting weed but im afraid to tell her whats going on. what should i do?

My husband and i have been married for about 6 years he has a 13 year old son from a previous relationship. Well his son is coming to live with us he just got out of Rehab for Heroin addiction and his mom wants nothing to do with him at all. Well hubby and i have three son’s of our own 2.4,6 and so as you can imagine i am concerned for there safty and well being but at the same time i also believe in Redemption so to speak everyone makes mistakes and i understand that so i am trying not to hold any preconceived notions about the kid but at the same time never had to really be a step parent to this kid and everything. I mean honestly i am more worried about him relapsing into it because he got into it to begin with because his gf was into it heavily and then she introduced him to it and then she died because of in OD so he got into it heavily trying to block out his pain and everything. Sorry for blabbing i just don’t know what to do with the kid hubby thinks there isn’t a threat and that he will be fine and that we just need to love on him but at the same time i don’t want him here =/. Advice?

I want to do this for my mom. Her alcohol consumption has really increased lately. She was against alcohol before, but ever since she and my brother had a fight and my brother moved away, she’s really changed. I really want to help her get her act together, and I think I will be able to convince her to go to an addiction treatment center if I could already tell her about the centers that she can choose from.

Both of my parents have been addicted to drugs. My mom is a recovering addict, and my Dad still uses heroin (but I haven’t seen him in years, I’ve never lived with him). I’ve been feeling really weird lately… like, craving drugs that i’ve never even used. It’s odd. I smoke pot on a daily basis, and I drink on the weekends, but that’s about it. I just feel like somehow I am more prone to addiction because it’s in my genes. I have dreams of me doing drugs, or becoming a junkie, and it terrifies me because I’ve seen the damage it’s done to my parents. But somehow I feel like it’s unavoidable… Also, after doing a bit of research, the way I think resembles very much to a drug addict. What can I do before it’s too late?

I am at my wits end with my mother, I have no clue what else there is left to do with her. She spends At least 20 hrs a day on her stupid laptop. And she’s starting to look terrible from it. It’s making her sick, she lashes out when my father and I interrupt her, stays up all hours of the night on it, (with it sitting conveniently on her little nightstand so she can monitor it) She’s even fallen asleep with her hand on it! Then at odd hours of the day she’ll take naps, you can tell she’s exhausted when she takes them, We have a big computer in her room, but she only uses her laptop, and in the morning when I wake up before she does, and I check my myspace for like 5 minutes, then log off until evening, The first thing she looks at is the freaking screen. Her eyes are bloodshot and the whites are a kinda yellowing color, she stays hunched over, and complains about back and every where else pain. But God forbid you tell her the computers causing it. My dad has told me he’d rather not even be married to her anymore, because she hardly pays attention to us, we’ll talk to her, but she replies with little *Mm hm’s* and *Yeah okays* But never looks at us. She’s addicted to a twilight site. Cullen’s Online, or something like that, and is obsessed with the people she chats to on there. She tells us she’s busy, she’s in a meeting, She’s not, She needs therapy desperately, I don’t know what to do, please help, we don’t have any money for therapy. But check out the site, she’s obsessed with it. I think of it like a cult to her.

Me and my mom has been on a trailer park for 2 years now. Since my father left us for his “legal family” my mom got so devastated that she resorted to heroin. Every Monday she would go under the bridge which is about a few blocks away from our trailer to buy her stash from spoiled white-suburban kids. I feel so helpless because I don’t have the spine to stop my mom from destroying her life. My only option now is to place her under a rehab program in the hope of saving her from her addiction. Is this a wise decision? or must I try to talk some sense in her before placing her under a rehab program?

Me and my mom has been on a trailer park for 2 years now. Since my father left us for his “legal family” my mom got so devastated that she resorted to heroin. Every Monday she would go under the bridge which is about a few blocks away from our trailer to buy her stash from spoiled white-suburban kids. I feel so helpless because I don’t have the spine to stop my mom from destroying her life. My only option now is to place her under a rehab program in the hope of saving her from her addiction. Is this a wise decision? or must I try to talk some sense in her before placing her under a rehab program?

Me and my mom has been on a trailer park for 2 years now. Since my father left us for his “legal family” my mom got so devastated that she resorted to heroin. Every Monday she would go under the bridge which is about a few blocks away from our trailer to buy her stash from spoiled white-suburban kids. I feel so helpless because I don’t have the spine to stop my mom from destroying her life. My only option now is to place her under a rehab program in the hope of saving her from her addiction. Is this a wise decision? or must I try to talk some sense in her before placing her under a rehab program?

My mother in law is a really bad alcoholic. I feel that is not my place to say anything but no one wants to help her. She is my husbands step mother so he could care less. But I really feel for her. Her husband has tried everything and is now giving up. She recently retired from work so I feel that she sits at home all day and drinks. I really want to help her. I am a stay at home mom. Would spending more time with her help or is she to far gone. She has been an alcoholic for a long time. My husband lost his real mother to this sickness and he says it is a lost cause. What can I do to help? Sorry for writing a book.

try to get over him he calls me unexpectedly telling me he loves me and our 2 baby girls on top of that hekeeps making me promises that he’s gonna send me money so i can see him just someone please help me i don’t know what to do i think i might be addicted to him.

Last year he tried to kill himself during his addiction to cocaine and other narcotics. He smokes weed. He drinks too much. I dont know if hes tried crack or more. Anyways when he gets depressed he wants to kill himself. We sent him to a rehabilitation facility but that only seemed to work in the beggining. He spent like a a month in there and left the place looking like a new man. But this saturday his mother found him taking drugs again. He was staying by himself but due to his suicide attempt last year the family decided to have him move to his mothers place. Now on a personal note they had contacted me about a year ago to look for a good rehab facility in South Africa and I had to travel around 400 Km from Johannesburg to look for the perfect 1 called Healing Wings. Its in a nature reserve sort of a place and its secluded and really far from anything remotely urban. http://www.healingwings.co.za/ So being the perfect place to take him in he would learn to work together with the other people in the program and to build stuff and be far from all his addictions. The farm has a success rate of 90% which is really good. Now a month it would cost around 936 dollars. In rands around 7030. Its expensive but they have the money. They spend hundreds every month in games and electrical appliances. So I offered this to them and they decided to go with the cheaper alternative. So they got him into a much cheaper and less demanding rehab center and now all that has gone into crap. So Im a little hurt. Nevertheless Im still willing to help. So any tips or advice?

So my mother is addicted to Morphine, Oxys, Hydrocodone/ine, Muscle Relaxers, Anti-Naseau pills and Tylenol. We are extremely poor. Me and my dad work, she doesn’t. Because he has to buy her so much stuff, I had to get a job to support myself. I’m a senior in college.

Everyday feels like an uphill battle to stay alive. I wake up every morning and think, okay, today I’m going to be alive to go back to bed. But some days it’s really hard to make it back.

Does anyone else have experience with this?

And don’t say rehab, there’s no way my dad would allow it – he would never make her do anything she didn’t want to do. And we never EVER talk about it. It’s like it doesn’t exist, but I still have to deal with her through the highs and the withdrawals. He works from 7 am to 9 pm so he’s not really around for it.

Please help me.

I’m 23 years old and I already lost my dad when i was 10 from drugs. SInce then my mother has developed a drug problem which seems to be more important to her then her own life. She is 80 lbs with advanced cervical cancer that has spread to her stomach and blocked 1 kidney. They said they can’t do chemo b/c it will kill her. so then they said they can do intensive radiation. the day she was supposed to be admitted she took off on one of her drug binges (where she disappears for days at a time). I havent talked to her since b/c i’m at wits end with her. she has been puttin us (my sisters and I) thru this for 10 years and it is taking over my life. Does anyone know of any programs that deals with addiction/psychology. i was thinkin maybe I can yhave her commited to a place but without er consent. she is def/ not of sound mind. I’m so lost. its killin me to know she is dyin, but even worse that she is not doin ne thing about it. I’m only 23. i can’t bear the thought of losing both parent

I’m going to cut her out of my life unless she decides to go to rehab. What is the best way to say this to an addict? Will the message even get through the drug haze? Do I have to do it in person?

I have been dealing with his for a long time of my life now. And i am getting really sick of it. My mom has gone to rehab but it didn’t work, she is very mean to my family and she tries to peer pressure us into doing things we don’t want to…. i just don’t know what to do anymore
please help

My mother has been gambling for about 2 years now. Compulsively. She has lost a lot of money and my step father is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The last binge was a few days ago. Before that it was 3 months ago and he filed for divorce. She manipulated him so that he stayed. Now, he is thinking that he will try to press forgery charges against her. I have been tramatized by this. She has missed out on my birthdays, told me she doesn’t have an addiction, screams at me..I have tried not talking to her for months on end, sympathizing, screaming, cutting her out of my life. I have just ended up hurt and depressed. I honestly don’t know how to handle it. She drinks, does prescription drugs..Cutting her out of my life seems to help but it really hurts me. I feel abandoned and she places blame on me for her actions. I’ve been in counseling for this for a year now. Do I cut her out? She will probably end up going to jail and that is really sad for me. I’m so confused, hurt and angry.
I’m actually 27 and happily married, so as an adult I feel like should be able to handle this better.
My step dad has taken her name off all the accounts and she doesn’t have access to any money. What she’s been doing is forging checks in his name and also getting credit cards without him knowing about it. He travels for work about half the month so she is home alone alot. He doesn’t have any idea about the debt she has. She says that she’s disclosed it all to him, but I seriously doubt that.