I feel like it is easier to share here than most places, and I don't know why or how prayer works but my experience is it mostly does.
Anyhow she is an alcoholic and lives several hours away. She's around 65 and after my mom died (my mom was a much older sister who was kind of like her mom) she spiraled. Lost everything, reputation, job, home, car etc etc. was living in the dark drunk for a while.
We got her into a rehab facility in 2020 and she went to AA and did well for about 3.5 yrs and yesterday was actually the day my mom passed and she reached out to me again and was extremely manic. She likely is not just using alcohol but maybe other drugs or is manic. And I just begged her to go to a meeting because I do believe she has to make some step. That is the prayer I am asking for. Just find the strength to go to a meeting.
I reached out to her son this weekend (because I first heard of the issue then) and he is DONE. Also it seems my other aunt's and uncles are done..they have all been through it and in her manic states she says some awful things publicly.
She is very intelligent and works in the medical field looking at hearts and got her current job off a past friendship that vouched for her. But pretty sure she has lost that already based on my sisters information from her job where they are limited in what they can say but she hasn't been going to work.
To have her involuntarily committed there are quite a few rules and it doesnt seem very likely anytime soon. So she is going to have to go thru hell or worse.
So in typing this...I also realize I need the prayers.
Thank you dawgnation.
Mental health issues suck
Anyhow she is an alcoholic and lives several hours away. She's around 65 and after my mom died (my mom was a much older sister who was kind of like her mom) she spiraled. Lost everything, reputation, job, home, car etc etc. was living in the dark drunk for a while.
We got her into a rehab facility in 2020 and she went to AA and did well for about 3.5 yrs and yesterday was actually the day my mom passed and she reached out to me again and was extremely manic. She likely is not just using alcohol but maybe other drugs or is manic. And I just begged her to go to a meeting because I do believe she has to make some step. That is the prayer I am asking for. Just find the strength to go to a meeting.
I reached out to her son this weekend (because I first heard of the issue then) and he is DONE. Also it seems my other aunt's and uncles are done..they have all been through it and in her manic states she says some awful things publicly.
She is very intelligent and works in the medical field looking at hearts and got her current job off a past friendship that vouched for her. But pretty sure she has lost that already based on my sisters information from her job where they are limited in what they can say but she hasn't been going to work.
To have her involuntarily committed there are quite a few rules and it doesnt seem very likely anytime soon. So she is going to have to go thru hell or worse.
So in typing this...I also realize I need the prayers.
Thank you dawgnation.
Mental health issues suck
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