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Tired of the cycle

The cycle always goes like this: 1) for 3-4 days, sometimes more than a week no one hears from her or can get in touch with her 2) she starts calling or just showing up all confrontational and aggressive bc she needs/wants something - 9 out of 10 times this leads to verbal abuse and threats when she doesn’t get what she wants 3) a day or so later she is paranoid and delusional and can’t focus on anything other than her personal conspiracy theories 4) after sleeping for a couple of days she is depressed, anxious, sad, and sometimes willing to take a step towards getting some help. We can actually communicate a bit and I can maybe even talk her into going to see her therapist……except she ends up back at #1 before any of that can happen and within a week she has again become the abusive person we refuse to let into our homes because she can get so violent. Meth is the devil. I want to help but I’m tired of dropping everything and putting everything and everyone in my life on hold only to have her start the cycle over the next day. It gets hard to forgive and forget all the ugly words she says and ugly way she treats us. Anybody else dealing with this? 7 years and I’m so over it.

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