You are a wonderful person for being so good to your Dad. I have also done this but with an addict/alcoholic in my life. (In fact all of my boyfriend/husbands were alcoholic/addicts and so is my son.) I am with a man now who is none of the above! I have had to learn that I can only help someone if they want it. I have had to learn to say NO. I am bi-polar and have had to deal with it for 35 years before being diagnosed. Until I was ready to face it and deal with it through medication and therapy it was like banging my head against a wall. No one could tell me what I should do because I wasn't going to hear it. I put myself in some dangerous places with dangerous people in some of my manic episodes and when I hit the concrete and the depression kicked in I would be in bed for weeks. I praise you for your wanting to help your Dad, but don't forget to take care of yourself. 
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"A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water!" Eleanor Roosevelt
"Each of us is completely different from the other, and yet we judge ourselves and others as if we are all the same." Gruvingal
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