I Am the Child of An Alcoholic Stories of Experiences

My mother was an alcoholic and a schizophrenic. She made her own choices in life and far be it from me to judge her - I am more like her than I would like to admit. I do not really drink though. I'd have the odd glass of wine once every...

This man ever knew what it was like to be a dad. He was a horrible human. My mother and him both drank like goldfish. I believe my mom drank to ease her pain from my dad. I had an older brother Davis. He would normally take my beats...

When i was younger my parents went out together with my moms buddy it started out normal and everything was grate but when my mom started coming home with beer i new there was some type of problem because of her wacky funny look on her...

I come from a dysfunctional family in which alcohol played a part in the dysfunctionality of it. But I have always felt that my family members that were, and are alcoholics, is that they used alcohol as a crutch to able to live with how...

So im sitting in my room crying, ive been crying all morning. I need to let this out. I thought about telling one of my closest friends about whats been going on in my life but then i stopped. Its embarrassing. My dad is once again...

Im not just the child of an alcoholic, I am the legacy, I too am an alcoholic, i would like to think thats the only aspect of my fathers personality I inherited but I know I also share his anger and sometimes even his violent tendencies...

my mum has always drank, it never bothered me when i was younger but i would say the past 3/4 years i cant stand her being drunk. In and out of mental hospital for cutting herself, coming home, not being able to get in and having to...

My mom. . . I don't know how to describe her. She can be sweet one minute and a horrifying, mean, vicious-tongued ***** the next. I know she screwed me up, or contributed to it anyway, but I still love her and worry about her.

My...

My parents have drank all of my life, I even remember them allowing my sister and I to drink small amounts when we were kids which wasn't necessarily a bad thing as we were given a tiny amount and to me it seemed like by their allowing...

my dad and mom both drank before I was even born! and when I was in my moms belly she drank to! now im all sorts of fucked up..i blame her and my real father now she is clean and is married to my step dad but my bio dad isent clean...

I am thoroughly embarrassed from his actions throughout the years he can't afford to pay for his rent either and he is about to become homeless he is a man that is 68 years old and is too stubborn to get help. I don't know what to do...

My father was an alcoholic, but what they call a high functioning one.

I often saw him after a few drinks, but rarely saw him drunk. Or it didn t scare me to see him drunk maybe that makes more sense, I was just used to it.

He kept...

My family is so dysfunctional for so many reasons that I never blamed alcohol for the problems and I don’t believe that alcohol was the problem but I do believe it was the what my parents used so they could get drunk and not deal with...

I miss my dad. He is alive but at the same time dead. I don't recognize him anymore and I miss him. He is cruel with his words and uses his emotional blackmail to keep people around. I live in the same house as him and we don't talk. He...

I won't lie. I have drank before, on new years have a few, or a glass of wine at Christmas. Even knowing what it can do to people. After one new years, I can see how I'm predisposed to alcoholism. It tastes good to me, too good. It's...

When I was growing up, I was never embarrassed to talk about my dad's alcoholism because it was something I had always known. I had been told by my peers, teachers, all kinds of people all the time that I should not talk about my...

Times were really hard. Mom gone and dad having a hard time finding work. I was a senior in high school and working. I tried my best to help with bills and food. I would get so mad when he came home with beer and not food. He would get...

I have a dad who suffers from a drinking problem, he and my mum separated a long time ago but I still have nightmares how he was violent towards my mum and my older sister. I'm close with my dads family but he isn't, he doesn't talk to...

I’ve recently turned 22 years old and my father has been suffering with alcoholism my entire life. I guess I’ve always tried to rationalize it, with the Hollywood concept of alcoholism, you know brash, rude, sloppy, abusive and...

I still remember all the nights too clearly. Every time is like the time before and the repetition is enough to make you sick. My adrenaline is always pumping. Fight or flight, my mind keeps reminding me. Oh, I know. Fight is always my...