Advice for my sister...HELP! *long*
My sister is addicted, maybe jsut obsessed with drugs all of a sudden...and I dont know how to talk to her about it!
Heres some background--
Shes 19 (just turned 19), we are NOT close, she grew up in Florida, I grew up here in PA. Our dad is a recovering addict/alcoholic. She used to be sooo against drugs/drinking because of seeing how he acted. She is bipolar and is supposed to be on meds for it, but refuses to take them (common for people with the disorder)
She is an AMAZING artist! She got accepted to Full Sail Unvieristy in Florida, and anyone who knows about this art school, its VERY hard to get into.
Well I guess some of her new friends there were very into acid. So of course she got roped into it. She smokes pot 24/7...literaly wakes up and starts smoking. She started drinking, not much, but when she does drink its binge drinking. Im talking whole bottles of liquor. Found out shes doing shrooms and taking aderol not prescribed to her.
She lives back here now because her and our mother stopped talking, so our mom wouldnt pay for her college anymore (not because of drugs, our mom is an addict as well--pills and alcohol) She had no choice to drop out of school and leave Florida...now she lives here with her "finance". She is EXTREMELy controlling and very mean to him.
I have been paying her to watch the girls here and there, but wont anymore once I found out about the drugs. She is upset with me, but you know where im coming from on that issue, not to mention she was using the $$ from ME to buy drugs. She should have been giving it to the people she lives with to help with food, etc.
Ive tried talking to her about the drug abuse and how its KILLING our father because he knows he passed the gene to her and he worries shes going to wind up like he did. So he wont talk to her, she doesnt talk to our mother, and she wont listen to me.
Since shes bipolar she blows up whenever I bring it up--"I dont have a problem" "Im fine!" etc.
where do I go from here? I dont want to stop talking to her, Im really all she has...At the same time I dont want my kids to pick up on any of this! I want to sit down and talk to her, but I cant just have a normal talk with her....her temper just flares to easily...sorry this is so long...
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