Help! I can't stop grandma from taking her drawers off at the family get togethers! Advice!?

Your dad's disability, combined with money problems and your mom being overworked may be giving your parents marriage troubles. Add to that the stress of raising children, the probability that your mom hasn't had time for any social connections and the likelihood that she has become depressed and I get why she is drinking. I hope she doesn't also have to take care of any housework.

This TED Talk may be of some help to you. It concerns a newer approach to addiction. Https://www.ted.com/talks/johann_hari_ev... If she is depressed, she may need medication.

I suspect she does need medication to replace her self-medicating with alcohol. For that, she needs to be seen by her primary care physician. The doctor can also give her a referral to a therapist who could talk to her about her problems.

BTW, by getting some kind of social connection I do not mean going to a bar to drink with friends. I'm thinking more along the lines of taking up a hobby and meeting with other hobby enthusiasts once a week, hosting a tea party for other working moms, joining a jogging group or taking an exercise class offered through the neighborhood park and recreation district.

I wouldn't classify someone drinking a bottle of wine every night an alcoholic.

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