If you have a big brother 12 years older than you with a drinking disorder.?!


Question: I need help to get my brother to stop drinking cause he is always just lying around. Somebody please give me some good advice.
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Let your parents know, and have them try to get him help.
All you can do is support him, and let him know he is wasting his life away, and will likely die from Liver damage.

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If you let go of the notion that you can stop him from drinking, you have already started truly helping him. He won't quit until he wants to. If you are enabling him in anyway (giving him money, a place to stay etc.) you need to stop it immediatley. You are helping him continue to drink, not preventing it. If he really has a drinking problem make it known that you don't want any part of it.

In the meantime, you should visit this site:
http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/

Try and connect with people in a similar situation, and ask them for advice.

Good Luck.
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added: DON'T do an intervention. They just piss people off in the long run. It's not going to save him. Stop supporting him while he is drinking, that is all that needs to be done. Get friends and family members to stop to.
Unfortunately your brother must first see that he has a problem and be willing to fix it. Your family could set up an intervention with a specialist. You would of course have to trick him into being somewhere at a certain time - like for a family dinner and actually he would be coming to a family meeting that could save his life. The interventionist would explain that you are concerned and offer rehab at that very moment.

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