Question by Gs G: How to give an alcoholic an intervention?
im 17 and I want to give my mom an intervention, I don’t really know how to do it. is there some facts about how bad her health is to tell her.. shes almost 51 and i can see her liver damage,, she is a very slow healer to wounds bruises and bruises easy and retains water on her belly shes also always tired and depressed and has sleeping problems due to her alcohol consumption. also who should i invite and what should i tell them to say

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Answer by The Stupid! It burns!
http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/info2/a/aa100897.htm

Answer by Bob Vila
Honestly she already knows its bad for here. She isn’t ignorant of this fact. What you need to do is to empathize and put yourself in her position and try to understand why she is doing this and then chop at this root.

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