[paolina1919]

I have been with my partner for 8 years.

He suffers from depression and mental health issues and he is drinking “to calm himself down” (his own words). He has gone through periods in which he drunk really a lot, and periods in which he managed to control his drinking and cut down.

When he is sober he is absolutely lovely. Sometimes it’s enough for him to drink just 1 beer that he becomes erratic.

I am not sure if it’s a mental health issue or an alcohol issue…I guess they go hand in hand.

Last year he lost his job and since then he has got worse and worse. He has stopped washing himself, spends long periods in bed, then binges on alcohol, becomes erratic and acts insane. He can spend the entire night shouting, treathening to kill himself, when he talks he doesn’t make any sense.

He is refusing all forms of help. He admits he has an issue but refuses to see a doctor. I have been told that as we are not related, I cannot have him sectioned but that the police could section him. Is this true?

I have called the police some months ago, he had been drinking and was harming himself (he has never hurt me). He was refusing an ambulance so I had to call the police. I was hoping they would section him because he was acting really irrationally and insane. They didn’t. They simply threw him out of the house “to sober himself up”. The police were extremely patronising with me

I am at loss of what to do, and it’s affecting me badly. His behaviour causes me stress and the relationship is breaking down, at the same time I don’t have the strenght to kick him out because he would become homeless. It’s very difficult for me emotionally.

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