JD, Your therapist is right. This is serious and you do need help. I'm not sure that his observation means your mother is the one to help? Seems like more addiction recovery help is what's needed.

I visited my sister in the hospital last month after her most recent bender. She looked like an 80 year old carcass--not even human really, and that was after she'd gotten better. Her brain is shot from decades of addiction. She will never live independently. Her life is one long slow death. She always thought she knew better than everyone and could do what she wanted and was in control of her drug and alcohol use. She is a shell. She can't even put together much of a sentence.

You actually have a shot here to get better. I would listen to your therapist on this one and get help.