How Do I Get My Mom to Stop Drinking and Smoking?
Question by Shannon: How do I get my mom to stop drinking and smoking?
Sorry for this long explanation, but I really need advice.
My mom drinks all night and day. It’s the only beverage she ever has in her system. First thing she does in the morning, goes out into the garage, grabs the phone, gets a beer, and smokes a cigarette.
She goes through 2 packs of cigarettes a day. If I counted how many beers, I don’t even wanna know. Probably 12 beers a day or more. 10 AT LEAST.
We always have at least 3 24 packs of beer alllllll the time and vodka hidden around the house. My dad quit drinking and smoking, but he was never an addict to either. My mom has gotten terrible. She seems like shes losing her mind. She’s forgetful and always sick.
I don’t even wanna be around her anymore because she drinks so much. I can barely tell when she’s sober anymore. She can’t even drive anymore. She just sits around the house all day, jobless. Depressed. Crying.
What the hell do I do? I’m just a 13 year old here. I can’t get her into any programs. We are damned outta money. We can’t afford health insurance or depression medication, and thats how she turned to alcohol.
I once asked her “When you get sick from all this alcohol and smoking, will we be able to get you help?”
and she told me straight up: “I’m just going to die.”
Its upsetting everyone. My parents are fighting more. My family is torn apart. I’ve tried to ask her to stop before, but she ended up making me cry.
I can’t keep doing this.
What do I do now?
And as terrible as this may be of me to do this, I have caught on to these habits because my half brother [who is apart from us now] is an alcoholic as well, my adopted brother used to do weed, and my other half brother still does weed. I’ve been drinking vodka myself, and I have done weed at a party. I’m starting to give in to what I’ve grown up around, so I don’t want to keep being around this. I can’t just do nothing, because I fear that if I do just wait it out, I will go down the path everyone else in my family went down and ruin my own life like they did. And I also don’t want to see anyone else in my family die.
Best answer:
Answer by Samira Arian
wow Shannon your a very strong girl I’m seventeen and don’t know how I would take all of that u its at the edge for ur mom you really need to talk to someone, counslers,closests friends, you shouldnt be putting up with this but your definetly going to learn from your family just be strong and don’t give up on your family I believe in you!
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