My sister’s mental health issues are starting to affect me.
So I’ll try to explain this the best I can, My sister who is 30 has been struggling with her mental health since college. She has bipolar as well as clinical depression which causes her to constantly spiral in a never ending cycle. Her depression gets very high or her anxiety which causes her to abuse alcohol tie high he has to be sent to programs to help with it but she soon begs my parents to come and get her sometimes because she misses them and her mental health gets even lower there. She wears down my parents and they pick her up to which flounders but eventually gets better but then flounders again. This was been going on since I was 14 and I’m 23 now and while I wish I could say I’m perfectly fine and well adjusted adult, I’m not. My mental health while better than hers dips when these moments happen because it takes up all of my air mats attention leaving me all alone. I don’t know what else to say it’s just difficult and it doesn’t feel like it’s ever going to end.
I also forgot to mention she self sabotages friendships so my parents and family are her only friends now
Update: my parents decided to be firm for once and say she may need to get more care then the place she was at so she’s at a behavioral facility (which she still begged my parents she didn’t want to go there) I also realize I messed up with the diagnosis because I was tired. That is my bad but from what I understand she has bpd, bipolar and anxiety I’m sorry for the confusion.