Families & Friends Of Addicts Support Group
Addiction affects more than just the individual. This community is dedicated to the families and friends of individuals suffering from any form of addiction. Mental health professionals are increasingly considering alcoholism and addiction as diseases that flourish in and are enabled by family systems. Family members react to the addicted person with particular behavioral...
good move on not letting her in your house.
If she faces one addiction, she may uncover why she is developing all these others....
She is addicted to crack, pot (people say its not addictive but I say the feeling is), alcohol, stealing, E, and probably anything else she can put in her mouth that may make her forget herself.
She is diagnosed bipolar, but I think there is more going on inside her for all the self medicating. She has always been a difficult person. And she sees a counseller regularily but it seems like all the counseller does is molly coddle her instead of getting to the bottom of all these horrible behaviours and addictions.
However, the stealing got her caught recentley and she may be facing more jail time, so forced sobriety.
It certainly complicates things. If she gets sober, her meds may be better able to help. I hope it is not thru jail...but if it is, I hope she makes a plan for recovery for when she gets out.