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I don’t think we can help until they want it. We can be at the end of the phone and try to be supportive, its all we can do.

I have spoken to my sister this morning on the phone.

She is now three weeks without a drink, going from eighteen cans a day plus cups of whisky. I cannot remember a time that she’s not been on the drink.

She never seems to get a hangover so thinks she isn’t an alcoholic as her husband calls her. But she definitely has a drink problem, she was violent and spiteful the majority of the time. She went to the doctors and told him that she had a problem, he prescribed anti depressants which obviously didn’t work washed down with a can of beer. She also went to a councillor that said she hadn’t got a problem. So no help was provided even though it was asked for repeatedly.

The thing thats helping now is realising that she will lose her loving husband and son, which she does not want to happen. They had a heart to heart and he told her that arguing and falling out with family and friends could not continue. My other sister and myself had refused to talk to her for months. We cannot help.

We talked about the cause of her drinking she says there is no reason for it. We have come to the conclusion that it is a habit. She now doesn’t go shopping on her own so she can be persuaded not to buy drink. If she wants a drink her husband is there to persuade her not to and it is working. She wants it to work and has accepted the help. She feels much better without the drink now and she didn’t turn anything I said into an argument.

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