Welcome to Bottled Up!
A website providing help and interactive tools for the families of alcoholics and problem drinkers as well as help and support for the drinkers as well.
Online Help
Help for Families
Are you looking for:-
Reliable information to decide if s/he is an alcoholic
Information to help you understand why your drinker behaves like that?
Guidance about how you can help your drinker?
Advice on how you can help yourself and your family?
Access to help and support 24/7
Complete confidentiality.
Help for Drinkers
Are you looking for:-
A dependable assessment tool for alcohol problems
A self-help approach that does not require you say “I’m … and I’m an alcoholic.”
A place that provides options, not just abstinence
Help that can be accessed wherever and whenever you need it
Podcast
We have created a podcast for Bottled Up
You can watch or listen as Lou and John discuss issues that important to the Families of Drinkers or to Drinkers.
They discuss issues ranging from Is there a problem? to Things that make drinking worse, to Recovery.
There are also Question and Answer sessions where they discuss questions that have been submitted by members of the website or the private Facebook group.
The podacasts are unscripted and unrehearsed. The reason being that we want you to feel that we are just having a relaxed conversation with you over a cup of tea.
So why not grab a cup of your favourite brew, relax and sit down and watch or listen with us.
Get the podcast here.
To listen to the podcast wherever you download your podcasts, just click on this link.
Or if you prefer you can watch Lou and John discuss these issues on Youtube. Watch here.
1 to 1
Do you Want to Talk to Someone?
Have you been searching the internet looking for some information that you can use, only to find that everyone has an opinion and they are alll different?
Do you long to just talk to someone who knows what they are talking about? Well you can.
John was in a psychiatric hospital and was given 6 months to live if he did not stop taking alcohol or drugs.
He not only stopped but he returned to education, became a Doctor of Psychology, carried out research on addiction that was publised in prestigious journals. Wrote a couple of books about the subject.
He then wrote and taught the biggest master’s course on addiction in the UK.
Then with his wife Lou, he wrote and maintain Bottled Up, helping thousands of drinkers and their families.
So, if you want to talk to someone, John would be a good choice as he knows the subject not only on an academic level but he has been there and recovered.
If you would like to book a session with John, click here to book.
The Story of John’s Recovery
If you are looking for hope that someone can recover from alcoholism, then read John’s new book – No Cloistered Life. In this book he discusses his life, his loves, his losses, the factors that contributed to his alcoholism and drug addiction and ultimately, his recovery.
His aca
demic supervisor’s wife quipped that he had gone from “a drunk to a doctor in a decade”. This book is proof that not only can someone recover from a seemingly hopeless state, but they can recover to a life that is so much better than what they had before.
Despite the serious subject matter, the story is told in an easy to read and humorous style. But the main take away message is that people can, and do, recover. There is hope.
You can get this book from Amazon and all good book stores. Get No Cloistered Life
Living with Alcoholism
If you live with a problem drinker you know how difficult it is to get reliable information on how to help an alcoholic. We have created an ebook – Living with Alcoholism – to help. It is full of tried and tested information and tips to help you to cope and make a start at changing your situation.
And best of all it is FREE. Just pop your email address into the form opposite and you will receive an email immediately with download instructions.
Do you prefer a book?
If you would rather access your help in the form of a book that you can hold in your hand we have two books you might like. We have – Bottled Up: How to survive Living with a Problem Drinker – for the families of drinkers. And for the drinkers we have – First Steps out of Problem Drinking.
