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Jan 16, 2021, 08:31 PM
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Member Since: Apr 2014
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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
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Open Eyes, I have been thinking about this more and more as I have someone in my social circle that I keep safe distance from who is a closet alcoholic, and it's really hard to watch the people in our circle enable them. Not much I can do. I draw clear boundaries around it, and I don't enable it, but I get really frustrated watching our friends enable them and then watching my friends get upset when they inevitably hurt them because their addiction is more important that their friendships. I only say closet because we all see and acknowledge the problem but no one will deal with it directly and bluntly. I'm not really close enough with them to say anything, but I don't tiptoe around it when we are in groups together either.
It's hard to watch them essentially abuse their friends. I'll probably not be hanging around them much anymore and that will just be my boundary.
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Primary Dx: C-PTSD and Severe Chronic Treatment Resistant Major Depressive Disorder
Secondary Dx: Generalized Anxiety Disorder with mild Agoraphobia.
Meds I've tried: Prozac, Zoloft, Celexa, Effexor, Remeron, Elavil, Wellbutrin, Risperidone, Abilify, Prazosin, Paxil, Trazadone, Tramadol, Topomax, Xanax, Propranolol, Valium, Visteril, Vraylar, Selinor, Clonopin, Ambien
Treatments I've done: CBT, DBT, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), Talk therapy, psychotherapy, exercise, diet, sleeping more, sleeping less...
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