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I’m concerned about my mom. She has always liked to drink, but I’m afraid it’s becoming too much. She drinks pretty much every single day, and usually, it’s out with her friends. On a given week, she will usually go out with her friends 5 or 6 nights out of the week, and most times, I’m not awake when she comes home. I’ll be laying in my bed upstairs and hear her come in the door at 1:30 or 2 o’clock in the morning.

I will say that despite the amount she drinks, I rarely see her full-out drunk but usually she acts a little tipsy and I can tell when she’s been drinking because she just acts differently. Last Saturday she was actually home most of the day and she started drinking around 11am (she had a glass of wine) then I think she had a beer or two at home later, then went out to a bar that night and drank who-knows how much. This type of thing is not unusual for her either.

I am 18 years old and a senior in high school and I know I shouldn’t be worried about my mom, but I really am. I love her so much and just don’t want anything to happen to her. And the truth is, I really need her around the house. I’m struggling right now with an eating disorder, and I feel like I have nobody. My parents are divorced and I no longer speak to my father, so most nights I am left home alone with my younger sister. I have been trying to talk to my mom about this for months and months, but everytime I bring it up she denies that she has a problem, and tells me that I need to be more independent, make more friends and get out more often. My mom and I have always had a great relationship, but this is really tearing us apart. What can I do? Am I overreacting, or does it sound like my mom really does have a problem?

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Since I was small my mother has had problems with the nerves in her stomach she had chrons disease and irritable bowel syndrome .. the doctors say it damaged some of the nerves in her stomach.

For the past 10 years she has been taking DHC CONTINUS tablets. 60mg each.Her doctor prescribed her 28 tablets for a week .. each week. She cannot go a week without these and is on repeat prescription. It says on the packet that she is to take 2 twice daily …. yet I know she takes 4 in the morning the first day she gets them then 3 in the afternoon and another 4 in the evening … coming towards the end of the week she runs out of tablets and is in pain.

I have tried talking to her .. I’m scared she will die of an overdose but she just calls me silly and says she needs to take that amount because she is in such pain. I do believe she is in a lot of pain and that she is more than likely addicted to these drugs but I’m so scared she will overdose taking this amount. Should I worry so much about this?

She also takes depression and blood pressure tablets.