u/malcomhung

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My daughter is 31. She always drank as an adult but not to the point where it had a negative impact on her life. Last August she injured her leg and it required a major surgery and follow-up procedures because it wasn't healing right.

Also relevant, she had lap band surgery in 2021.

Around Thanksgiving she was hospitalized with pancreatitis as a result of binge drinking. We didn't really understand what was going on yet, but she was treated and stopped drinking for a couple of months.

Since then she keeps going on these benders where she will drink vodka for several hours, sleep for a bit, then wake up and start doing it again.

I've taken her to multiple detox centers but she always started drinking within a week of getting out. This time we got her into a 30-day rehab right after and she's about three days in.

I'm an alcoholic myself. I was very inattentive for half of her childhood, and then a bad example for the second half. I've been sober for 7 years now. We are close, but I feel like I've failed her in many ways.

She doesn't seem to care about anything anymore. Her leg isn't healing because she doesn't eat, and she is constantly telling us whatever we want to hear so that we will leave her to her vices.

I don't know what to do. I can relate to the alcoholism, but not this level. If we didn't stop her, I feel like she would just drink until she died, or run out of money and die from heavy detox.

Think about it

Imagine someone is holding a piece of plexiglass right in front of your face. Mostly you can't see it because it's clear and "see through."

But every once in awhile that's like I exhale onto the plexiglass and I just get this quick burst of fog like a foggy mirror, or a foggy plexiglass, and it just pops up for not even a full second and then it's gone.

It was happening for like 10 hours after my first experience. But I think it stopped now, but then again I'm sitting in a dark room.

At one point I became very afraid because I could sense its presence, but I'm not 100% sure that I wasn't just looking for something because I thought it was supposed to be there.

I don't know if it's a situation that I just created in my head or if I was really feeling a being.