How to survive an alcoholic rehab
This is the best account I’ve ever read of an alcoholic going through rehab and struggling with his subsequent recovery. It’s honest, compelling and darkly humorous.
It’s not for the faint hearted though - he graphically details his most debauched binges, his most horrific withdrawals and embarrassing bed-wetting episodes. But he balances this with some wonderfully insightful thoughts about the recovery process, about Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and of course, about his time in a detox and rehab centre.
Augusten Burroughs is a very clever writer, and he engages you from the first page, by the end you feel like you know him inside out. If you’re struggling with alcohol, or you’re thinking about going through rehab, you seriously should read this first.
If you fancy a copy for yourself, here’s the page on Amazon.com where you can get it.
It’s always difficult to persuade other people to seek help for an alcohol problem. The decision that she needs to stop drinking is one that your mother must finally make for herself - all you can do to help is to get her to talk about what alcohol has done to her and her family - openly and honestly. Be brutally honest if need be.
You could suggest that she read through some of the articles here, particularly -
Are you an alcoholic? and,
How to stop drinking alcohol.
Hi,
My name is Priya and I live with my mum who is an alcoholic. This is driving me and my dad totally crazy and we’ve on numerous ocassion tried to help her and we cannot win any longer. She is driving us totally crazy. Please help, as I don’t know how much more longer I can take of this.