I am afraid I would feel all awkward at those meetings because I don't believe in a higher power at all. They emphasize that and pray together and.. I don't know, how awkward! Do you know if atheists/agnostics are accepted without judgment or attempts to convert in those places? I don't want to go to a place that is meant to be safe and find myself having to defend my point of view to people who may not understand where I am coming from.

Broken, I don't know what she did to deserve being called a wh*re, but I know that she would not hesitate to do the same thing to a friend who angered her. If that is not a friend, then my sister has never been a friend. There is not a friend she has that she has not abused in this way. I wouldn't be surprised if she instigated this. At all. And no, she is not getting help. And she doesn't think she needs it.

teacher, my parents have mostly given up on my sister. They have offered her a place in their home if she agrees to clean up her act while living with them (i.e., no drugs, stops dressing like a homeless person, stops using fowl language with such frequency, etc), but she refuses. It makes sense to me that she would refuse because my parents are crazy. They won't help beyond this. They say they can't afford her rehab and they don't think it will help her since they tried it with my brother and it didn't work. They say they've thrown enough money down the drain with her. Besides, she is so caught up in the lowlife lifestyle that she would refuse rehab at this point even in her clean moments.

So, what now? We just let her wither away? And then my other brother and sister just let her do whatever. They don't even try to talk to her or change her. And they don't help her. But when I don't help her everyone calls me selfish, because I am supposed to be the responsible one.

This all feels so hopeless.