My mother has a computer addiction (she is 65). She has just left after staying for the weekend and she needs urgent help.
Talked to my Dad this weekend - we are both really worried about her. She spends hours and hours on the computer, 7 days a week, playing bloody candy crush amongst other games. Dad says they go to bed at 11pm and she heads off back to the computer for another hour of playing. She doesn't see her friends, she no longer goes out. Has no interests. A once/twice weekly supermarket shop has been replaced by Ocado…ALL day she sits in her "office" having a relaptionhip with a screen. Dad says he has started doing all the laundry as she is withdrawn and doesn't do it.
She ignored her three grandchildren this weekend (who she hasn't seen since Christmas) and just sat here this weekend, got her laptop out for two hours and started surfing…
It was a glorious day today, we went for a walk and she opted to stay behind. When we returned she was…on the computer.
So as to not drip feed - she was an alcoholic (been dry for 20 years) but smokes 40-60 a day and won't entertain the idea of giving up (happily puffs away at breakfast in front of grandchildren - not in my house, but in her own). She has an addictive personality.
Any one experienced this? How do we help? She must be miserable (depressed?) and my Dad is miserable. What are the best positive steps forward?
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ChocolateBiscuitCake · 16/02/2014 19:13
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