u see i find that there are many diffrent ways to cope with haveing an alcoholic father like i have or mother. i find that it helps me just to try and avoide conversatiin and get on with ur everyday life but my brother on the otherhand likes to cuddle my dad as much as posibble to try and get him to stop drinking but i know this will do no use because he will only stop when he is ready.my dad is on the verge of dying if he drinks anymore and still thinks he is pretty much invinsable he has a mental heath problem called depression which i have lived with my whole like once when we moved to anoter country me my brother and mum came back to find that dad had cut himself and was bleeding to death which was very hard from any of us to see. i am 14 and my brother is 13 and even though i am this age i have tryed to understand as much as possible about the illness which i advise others to do as well because u then know not why he is depressed but about reasons form other being depressed. most of the time he starts drinking for no reason he just thinks f**k it and starts. just as i am writing this my dad is puking his gutts out. he sometimes thinks that this only effects him but no it effects the whole fammily in diffrent ways, i never bring friends home because i dont want people to know about my dad simpily because they wouldnt understand i have only ever told one person about my dad and she trys to be understanding and helpful when i am down and cheer me up whish i thank her for. sometimes i think that my dad having this illness has helped me because i know alot about this and can understand more than others.
