How do I deal with a sister who is not functional and on prescription drugs. ADDERALL?
My sister has been seeing her therapist for like 15 years and still is not functioning and suffers anxiety and depression. She had a business fail about 4 years ago and hasn’t really left her house since, and has been putting off filing for the business’ bankruptcy and closing that chapter of her life and moving on. She wants to sue her former landlord of her business, and wants to sue the contractor who did work on her business space, she wants to sue her lawyer. She seems paranoid, isolated (she doesn’t answer phone calls when her cell phone is working, and her voicemail is full all the time so she can’t accept voicemail) she doesn’t stay in touch with any of her former friends, and doesn’t communicate with her boyfriend who despite all her personality declines, has stuck with her and got another job to support her. Mom and Dad still send her money even though they sunk all their money into her failed business, and they pay her rent, her therapy bills, her prescription costs (which she is ALWAYS running out of which leads me think that she is taking more of her medication than is prescribed.) She has been not working for over four years and her house has gone into foreclosure and her boyfriend sold his truck and is now using her car to get to his two jobs that he works. She stays at home and knits and reads all this metaphysical BS that you would just laugh at to see cause of how unhappy and dysfunctional she is.
I had no idea that the drug she is on, ADDERALL, is a class 2 controlled substance because of its addictive tendencies, now that I have done some research, am realizing that there is nothing good that is on the net about this drug. She was originally prescribed it because she was diagnosed ADD as an adult (she’s 33 now) and has been on it for more than 6 years.
I was always thinking that she is still just suffering from her depression and looking for attention and sympathy, but now am realizing that we are no longer dealing with her as a person but rather dealing with HER ADDICTION. Her addiction will do and say anything in order to get her next fix. She goes for months at a time not being in touch with any family member and when she does, it is just to get more money.
I am bringing to my family’s attention that our sister and daughter is AN ADDICT. She is on the path to ruin and we are just watching it, and thinking that it must be something wrong with her brain chemistry. I tend to agree it has EVERYTHING to do with her brain chemistry that her doctor has prescribed to her and she is abusing. Her course of therapy cannot be on the right path until she is free of her addiction. It is my opinion that her addiction is very much like someone addicted to crack or to crystal meth only she doesn’t have to go to a scary neighborhood to get her drugs. she just goes to the drugstore. What happens when her money train runs out. She is college educated, and comes from a supportive family, but I think in this case, the support, combined with a blind eye is better described as ENABLING.
I had no idea that the drug she is on, ADDERALL, is a class 2 controlled substance because of its addictive tendencies, now that I have done some research, am realizing that there is nothing good that is on the net about this drug. She was originally prescribed it because she was diagnosed ADD as an adult (she’s 33 now) and has been on it for more than 6 years.
I was always thinking that she is still just suffering from her depression and looking for attention and sympathy, but now am realizing that we are no longer dealing with her as a person but rather dealing with HER ADDICTION. Her addiction will do and say anything in order to get her next fix. She goes for months at a time not being in touch with any family member and when she does, it is just to get more money.
I am bringing to my family’s attention that our sister and daughter is AN ADDICT. She is on the path to ruin and we are just watching it, and thinking that it must be something wrong with her brain chemistry. I tend to agree it has EVERYTHING to do with her brain chemistry that her doctor has prescribed to her and she is abusing. Her course of therapy cannot be on the right path until she is free of her addiction. It is my opinion that her addiction is very much like someone addicted to crack or to crystal meth only she doesn’t have to go to a scary neighborhood to get her drugs. she just goes to the drugstore. What happens when her money train runs out. She is college educated, and comes from a supportive family, but I think in this case, the support, combined with a blind eye is better described as ENABLING.
Please, any advice, or experiential comments would be appreciated. Since the proverbial “light” went off in my head that she is an addict, I can’t stop thinking about it and her eventual demise unless something drastic happens to change her course.