I am going through a rough patch with my father, and I just don't know what to do. I am 20 years old, and he is 50. Growing up I noticed that he would drink a lot, but not until my teens did, I realize how much of a problem it had become. At first, he drank beer and then he started drinking dark liquor. It went from pints a day to 1 liter almost every day. He wouldn't eat, or shower, and he would lay in his bed all day and not come out of his room. He would go days and sometimes a whole week, without even talking to me or my brother or grandma. He ended up in the hospital about three years ago because his liver was shutting down his skin was yellow and his eyes, and he had stopped eating for some time while he drank. He had also been puking blood from the ulcers caused by the drinking. Now all of this scared him to death and was a huge wake up call, so he quit for about a year. Now he is doing the same exact thing again. In fact, now he has lost his car and his job and is hopeless and continues to drink and drink and not eat or do anything, he rarely even leaves the house. I have tried everything there is to do. When he is drunk, he gets very mean and nasty, it's beginning to be hard to live with him, because the way he acts is brining me down too. I have lost hope and it's honestly depressing.