When someone you love struggles with addiction, you need support too!

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In the 70s when my mother who also had
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her own mental health challenges was
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trying to become free from that abuse,
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she found Alanon
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and I think it likely saved her. I I
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grew up with a suicidal mom and she did
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not end up committing. Right. It was
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largely, I think, uh, beneficial into
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giving her a supportive environment
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where
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she could learn to stand up for herself,
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have boundaries, seek treatment and
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things like that. And Alanon became a
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very, very big part of her life for
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probably 60 years. And as someone who
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loves an addict,
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that gave her a support system to
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understand that those behaviors in him
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were not about her, which probably
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helped her to feel less isolated and
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things like that.
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>> Um, I think isolated, but to also have
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uh community, right? She grew up in an
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environment where you didn't talk right
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>> about what was going on in the

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