How do I help my sister? She has problems with drug abuse, possible bulimia, and cutting. Nothing’s working!
Question by a girl: How do I help my sister? She has problems with drug abuse, possible bulimia, and cutting. Nothing’s working!
I am 18, and she just recently turned 15. Yes, we have had some troubled times in the past, but she was much more sheltered from it than I was. We have a stable living condition now, and I am positive the root of her problems can be traced back to the crowd she rolls with.
I know that as teens we all have those friends that aren’t exactly ‘straight edge,’ but none of her close friends are good influences to her. Seriously, her friends are ridiculous. She hangs with a much older crowd usually, and I have seen her get used by countless numbers of guys just looking for a naive little girl to prey on.
She eats very unhealthy, mostly junk-food. I cook meals for her and will try and offer her a side salad to go with her dinner of potato chips and soda, but she always refuses. I know she has been throwing up. One of her very close friends runs a pro-mia website too. She used to eat normally.
She cuts words like ‘worthless’ into her wrists. The principal found it once, it was a big deal.
We try taking away her razors and anything she could use to cut, but she always finds a way.
She is out of town now, and we have found empty prescription bottles under her bed. Some of them were my old medicines that I needed after coming out of the hospital, but I couldn’t find them. She has also popped 192 Sudafed sometime within the last 2 months. She doesn’t have allergies.
We try talking to her all the time, but the more you talk the more she resents the family. My mom tries, and she trash talks her behind her back and tries to stay as far away as possible.
She goes to counseling weekly, sometime bi-weekly. She was tested, and does not have depression.
What can I do as her older sister besides set an example?
Morbidxxx… Bulemics eat nothing but junk food. They binge and puke to keep from gaining weight. Why eat healthy is you’re just going to purge?
And Sudafed is relatively dangerous, especially in large doses. 10 in one sitting could kill a person. Why do you think they restrict the amount you buy at the pharmacy and make you show ID? It works similar to cocaine. It speed up your heart rate immensely. She is most likely using them to stay awake at night, but she might also be using them as a depressant.
Yes though, I do think much of this is for attention. She wants to fit in with her drug abusing friends, her ED friends, and her cutting friends. The problem is that she is combining all these things while her friends have smaller scale problems on their own.
Lostindarkness- Yes, it does seem depressing for her to do such a thing. That was probably her intent. Not to say that she doesn’t have problems, but why carve words if it’s not for show? Why cut your wrists rather than parts of the body that you can more easily hide? Some of her friends cut too, and their behaviors are rubbing off on her.
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Answer by joseph adam jonas luvr <3
shell grow outta it sorry
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