Alcoholic And Sickness Benefit

[kloofnek]

My daughter is an alcoholic!!!
She was on the dole for a while when her other job ended and got herself a lovely flexible little job...just right with having a 12 year daughter.Now it looks like she will lose it as she is having odd days off(|hungover),so will surely lose it.
She will not get dole(Jobseekers Allowance) and someone has told me she will have to go on sick benefit but her doctor doesn`t know she drinks so how will he believe her and also I don`t call that an "illness".

I seem to remember it takes a long time to get it...what will she live on? I am worried sick about it all and it`s not as if she is a teenager...she`s 39 years old for God`s sake!!!

[EDDIE51]

just to get back to kloofnek's original question
Your daughter HAS to get her doctor in on this problem, until she does that , sorry but there is no more you can do than you are doing now.

[FredPuli43]

Must say that alcohol dependent sounds better than alcoholic, but it's a distinction without a difference. I never got the shakes if I managed or had to go without, but I was certainly an alcoholic; anybody who is 8 stone and drinks well over a litre of vodka a day qualifies! The alcoholic feels better with some alcohol inside them; calling that alcohol dependent (the key word is "dependent"; they are dependent on alcohol) is being more medical, but it's the same thing.

[friedgreentomato]

Eddie - I said that about 2 pages ago!

[Jeza]

Sqad's input would be interesting to read.

[friedgreentomato]

Jeza why? Some of us here have lived through it - not studied it!

[Jeza]

Helen. Snap both my brother and sister died with alcohol related problems.

[Octavius]

Jeza, aside from recommending two ibuprofen and a glass of water, I'm not sure sqad has much patience for giving benefits advice.

[anneasquith]

thank you fred............at last a sensible answer. alcohol dependant seems to be more socially accepted,

[ummmm]

Errrrr, were our answers not sensible then?

[friedgreentomato]

Apparently not Ummmm

[EDDIE51]

Fredpuli some people can drink heavily for decades and never become an alcoholic , others become alcoholic after just a year or so. There is a genetic basis to this some people are far more disposed to becoming alcoholics and some have a genetic make up that means they will never become true alcoholics no matter how much or how long they drink. Alcoholic anonymous accept both types of drinker, the important point is to realise you have a problem and ask for help .