A Cry for help?
Hello
First off I'm not asking for myself, but someone who I live with.
Tonight I heard a loud bang from the kitchen upstairs, (I live on the ground floor), at first I thought conflict as id heard loud voices coming from upstairs. I went upstairs later after I thought things had calmed down, and met some of my other house mates, who seemed a little worried.
It turns out that the person in question had met them in the kitchen, if I understand it correctly he was already drunk, but then took a 1 lt bottle of vodka out of the kitchen cupboard and then drank it (with a little juice) within the space of 30 minutes. Kind of tried to start a fight with the boyfriend of one of the house mates (to no avail as they both (girlfriend and boyfriend) work in the health sector and knew what was happening, then fell on the floor and made no attempt to get up, well sounded more like he didn't want to, he just wanted to lie there.
Eventually the boyfriend got him to get up and he's currently asleep in the livingroom on the couch.
But what we talked about was how he could be a risk to both himself and us, as he smokes A lot, and if he's going to get this drunk and pass out while his fags still lit, then it could cause a fire, also apparently he's not been going to work, been driving drunk when he does leave the house been sleeping through the day, getting up at odd hours in the morning and watching TV.
We think he might be depressed as well, we know he didn't see his daughter this weekend (she usually comes round on Sundays) weather or not this was because or caused this I don't know, I think he's been 'on the wagon' for about a week as I haven't seen him since last Wednesday, and to be honest I didn't see this coming from him (house mates said they did since they moved in not long ago.)
He apparently has an appointment to see the GP next week, but I'm told that if need be we should maybe try and get him an emergency appointment, or even see if the Doctor could come here, but really what we can only do is just keep an eye on him and make sure he doesn't cause himself harm by either falling down or burning the house down.
What my question is, I'm wondering what else I could do at this point, what would in your opinion my options be, or how would this be best to handle this, to be honest I'm quite intimidated and upset by this situation (and I'm not the only house mate) as I don't know how to handle this and I'm worried for the guy as well as he's a decent bloke and its not nice seeing/hearing about him acting this way.
Cheers in advance for any and all replies.
Im going to have to post and run as I'm up for work at 3 and need to get some sleep, but ill be back tomorrow to reply to any questions.