Alcohol replacement

I was just wondering... like Methadone exists as a drug replacement, is there anything that we can administer him as an alcohol replacement? He's destroying himself, and he's destroying his family, and he really saddens everybody. He refuses to seek help, he doesn't acknowledge he has a problem... what do you do in these cases? I've asked a lawyer, he said that if he poses no threat to himself or others, he can't be forcefully committed.

Then what?

My closest friends doesn't even know about this. It's embarrassing. Am I a terrible person to be embarrassed by my own brother, no matter what he does?

I am glad to hear from you on this forum. Thanks for your post.

It always sad, when I am ready and willing to help someone I love, when the person I love doesn't WANT my help. There IS, I believe, no easy answer to that dilemma.

Perhaps you will find some direction if you click on the following link:

http://www.mdjunction.com/forums/bipolar-support-forums/ tips/938-bipolar-or-addictedhelping-a-friend

I wish I could offer you more, but, until your brother wants help, there is little more to offer.

Take care. Message me if you care to.

Jim

One of the traits (or folklore, not entirely sure) of mental illness is that most often the sufferers don't realize they are not OK. My dad used to say: if you think you're crazy, then you're surely not. I've read a lot here, and I realized that there are people with psychological disorders that do realize the dimension of their disease, and actively fight to get better. I didn't know that, I'm ashamed to say, until I read you guys.

Well, my brother is just the paramount of a mentally diseased person as I know it, and thought it is like. He considers everybody around him crazy, and judges everything through him. And HE IS NOT OK. Am I rambling? Guess I am, and venting. But I don't want that. I just want to know if there is a way to make him realize he is ill.

I guess I put the stigma of "mental disease" on him, unconsciously - crazy people don't know/believe they're crazy, and should get forceful help.

My perception on Bipolar people changed SO MUCH since I am here.

So... again. How can he be convinced to get help? I just don't see it coming from him anytime soon. At all.

OC

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