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[quote=Anonymous]Another plug for Al-Anon.  I had thought my brother was in recovery for ten years but after he had a debilitating accident and couldn't work I had to get more involved in his life.  Eventually I found out he was drinking again and I started going to Al-Anon after a hiatus of many years.

It's not always clear what you should do, OP, but you'll find support and hope and experience in Al-Anon - in particular the emphasis is on, as the pp noted, working your own program.  You'll try to figure out where you need to step back to take care of yourself and where you can help.  You'll learn to grieve over the loss but realize that it's the disease that's killing your brother and that you can't stop him if he wants to embrace the disease.

My brother was miserable and in chronic pain.  He wanted to die and he basically drank himself to death so he got what he wanted.  But I had people to talk to about it who understood what I was going through and that was a good thing.[/quote]

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