Posted by joslynn on March 20, 2007, at 14:35:11
In reply to I'm considering alcohol to replace medications, posted by jealibeanz on March 17, 2007, at 16:25:21
My Dad drank heavily from about 15 to 50...in my opinion, it was to self-medicate depression and perhaps bipolar. Anyway, after all those years of drinking, he is a shell of a man. I love him, but he is a shell of a man. He doesn't drink anymore, but I think it took its toll. When he did drink, it was literally coming out of his pores, you could smell it. Eventually it got to the point where he woke up in his own bodily fluids from all ends and realized he just couldn't do it anymore, so he quit and joined AA. But he's had relapses and I think he has done permanent damage.
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