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[quote=Anonymous]Most of the people commenting have never been through what you are going through.  Addiction is a disease and like all diseases there is a chance of recovery.

Addiction is the by product of mental illness.  You need to have boundaries and understand you didn't cause it, you can't change it and you can't cure it.

No matter how many times he tries recovery, it won't work until he is ready.

I speak from the position of someone who has a child in recovery for their addiction.  Until we stopped enabling, and even the smallest amount of enabling is bad, and until they want to get well, you have to end everything with them.  No contact.  Maybe they recover maybe they don't but it's not up to you or anything you can do about it.  It's a hard thing to go through.

Most people do not understand addiction and think it can never happen to them and when it does they go into hiding and don't talk about it.  Mental health is finally being talked about and you would be supposed how many of us have a close on in recovery or dealing with something like this.

I am not telling you what to do, that's your choice.  Our choice was to stop all contact and everything.  Fortunately things are going well many years later and continued treatment.  That's a key component that many don't continue with.   [/quote]

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