So I just feel like I have to tell someone this. (Thank you for reading.)

I have a friend that I have been helping.

She's a really old friend.

She was my mother's caregiver.

Unfortunately, she is bipolar.

She never seems to stay on her meds. 

I've given her refuge twice. The last time she really was having a psychotic break.

This is the second time. She seems to be have developed a gambling addiction, which is apparently common in women with untreated bipolar.

I've noticed money missing. I know it's her.

But I've just realized that diamond jewelry from my mother and grandmother is missing.

I am beyond distraught.

I never thought she would do something so rotten.

Of course, she denies everything. But then she always denies everything.

I am going to file a police report tomorrow.

I just can't stop blaming myself.

I'm just so sad about it but I'm trying to hold myself together.

To be the one responsible for losing something so valuable and so long in my family is making me feel so stupid and ashamed.

I can't even bring myself to tell my family yet.

I can usually bounce back from anything but this betrayal is just awful.

Money I could forgive but these are memories. These things can't be replaced.

I am also stunned by how facilely she lies about it.

Honestly she should be an actress.