alcoholics

Well for depression, medicines are not solution. Do Meditation, try breathing exercise, it will help you balance and handle depression.

Hello manda panda, My Father is an alcholic and has been for a long time. It lead to my parents divorce when I was in 7th grade. I remeber a lot of traumatic experiences when growing up. He ruined my Brothers sixth grade birthday party by showing up wasted drunk. He got banned from little league games for always coming to coach them drunk too. I have spent a lot of time trying to help resolve this problem. My Father still drinks heavily and doesn't feel he has a problem. That is the main issue that needs to be overcome. The only way for denial to be overcome is for somone to show the individual how much the problem hurts them. AA recommends intervention, but it is not an easy process and you need the support of everyone who loves that person. My familys problem was because my Father's parents were not willing to help with an intervention. My Grandfather who is passed away had the same problem as his son (my Father). I felt I would never grow up to be like my Father but I started drinking heavily in highschool and found out that I have a genetic disposition which is partially caused by my depression that lead me thru very hard times for about 10 years of my life. So just remeber that you are not immune to this "disease" either. Just give your Mom the love she needs and tell her how much it hurts you that she is doing this to herself. If you really care about her and she loves you she should be willing to change. But like I said you will need a lot of support.