Have your wife check out Al-Anon. She'll learn the ways she can help herself and that will help you, too. Alcoholism is a sickness that likes to infect others around the alcoholic, too, in emotional and spiritual ways that they need help for in order to heal themselves and understand what's happening to you, too, and what ways they might have fed into it. I have a 24th birthday coming up on May 5th and I owe my life to AA. I strongly recommend it. I'm a widow now, but I was an Al-Anon member when my husband was alive, too.

I'm proud of you for having the courage to come out and admit publickly that you've got a problem. That's a great big step in overcoming your problem.

You definitely need to talk this over with your neurologist, though, because drinking affects your central nervous system and you'll need his help keeping a balance while you sober up.