Worried About My Mother's Alcohol Consumption

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I'm really worried that my mother is drinking too much. I don't think she's an alcoholic in the strict clinical sense, but she drinks every day and definitely goes beyond the recommended healthy limit. She gets touchy if you mention anything, but she doesn't deny that she's drinking a lot - she just says she's tired and needs to relax. I think she's frightened that I'm judging her and it's true that I sometimes do get irritated, because she's a former nurse and she knows that what she's doing isn't healthy. There have been several occasions when I've heard her falling asleep and starting to snore on the toilet at the end of the evening - once she even fell off the toilet and came to confused and disorientated - which obviously wouldn't be happening without the drink. :( I am not the right person to get her to stop, but please pray that she's able to cut down, and that I can be sympathetic and compassionate and able to make life easier for her so she feels less tired.