To both you of you parents and the sister: I am very well aware of your pain and frustrations.
As much as my heart goes out to the daughter and sister with this desease, I know all
too well that only they can make it change. For you family members, many do not
realize how much it hurts and frustrates you. The constant hurt to see it, nightmares,
other peoples judgements and often hard to find the 'right' help. I certainly know how
you feel. Mom: as hard as it is to accept you cannot help her with her very personal
pain, you have to stay strong for her. That is so damned hard to do. Your baby is in
trouble and I know your many thoughts on it and the extreme nightmares. Find a safe
way to show your pain, frustrations and anger over this, do what you can to not show
her because it feeds the guilt she already has and gives her more cravings for the
attention and fixes like when she was a little girl. Dad, how bad you feel, I can't know what a Dad feels except what my daughters dad has said but to not be able to be strong enough for her
to feel safety from you, take your advice and watch so much you can't fix is hard. Best
way for you to help the family you love is to keep pushing the strengths, powers that a
head of household has to. I understand your delema and you was right to speak out on
your daughters control in the house, it is yours and your wifes and keep that!
Life has rules, unfortunately many do not see that many who have these kinds of
disorders do get all the rules and stick to them, like your house your refrig is your
business! They also sometimes do not get that no matter what thier age they are always
our babies! I do have advice for you, I did not see it was done? Get legal guardianship
over your daughter as fast as you can and use that authority UNTIL she is safe!
The sister, I am one of thseo unfortunate people who lived with losing a sister very young,
having a younger sister with a life full of problems and near death a couple times, in trouble
still and understand it hurts and all of the above to the parents. I'd suggest you do the same
thing in gettign guardianship.
Legal Guardianship over that adult is hard to accept you need to do but it does ensure that
when they refuse to save themself because of thier probelms, you aren't so helpless to
sit back and just watch them die! You can get with Doctors to force their hand into a hospital and treatment so much better, keep them in treatment and hospitals and if things get to
a point a 'sound decision' needs made, it wont be by them who is not thinking right, it
will be from your heart of what can be?