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My sister is bipolar and is on a really bad downward spiral right now. I found out today that someone saw her in a crack house a couple of days ago. Some of my family and I confronted her about it and she said she was just curious. I don't believe she has done it alot because the person who say her said she looked like she didn't know what she was doing. She already has a habit of abusing her perscription drugs. She has an affinity for pain killers and will buy medicine off the internet. She will steal my mother's meds any chance she get and has bought them off the street. My mother has to lock her room up or carry her pills with her. She will steal the nerve and pain pills. She says she wants to be numb to her feelings. I tell her you can't live in this world and not feel. Its part of the human condition. I may not understand the depth of her pain, but its very difficult for me to watch her destroy herself and not try to do something about it. I care for two of her daughters and try to use them as inspiration to push her to do better, but I think she is too deep into her own pain to care or try. We lost our brother last May due to an apparent suicide and our Uncle in October due to a heart attack. The family is very split on how to help her. Most just keep their distance and turn a blind eye to everything. My mother and I have been the only ones who where there for everything and as a result she has the most anger towards us. I don't know what to do anymore. It makes me sad and often angry to see her constantly give in to the sadness and pain. I thinks she need to go to the hospital to detox and get some real therapy, but she is not having any of that. What do I do?

 

By agriffin on Wed, 04-11-12, 14:45

It's not that she doesn't want to get better, she probably needs someone to sit her down and point out to her that this is beyond her control and she can get back the reigns if she would consider a short stay a a hospital. I've been where she is and the hospital worked wonders.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

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