She's not on drugs as far as I know or can tell. She does have Xanax, and she does self-medicate with wine. She has indeed been abused in the past - her father was a black-out alcoholic and would come home and beat her mom and yell at the children. One night, the mom took off without a notice and never came back. They are in touch now; mom lives in retirement home way down in the deep south. The father after that happened, ended up meeting another woman and ran off with her. Even though they live just twenty minutes or so apart, they only see or talk to each other when they need something. She's been living in this same house all this time, fixing it up, living here, etc. Her father just told her that he's not giving her the house - but to his wife (her stepmom's) son and his girlfriend since they are getting married and planning a family. After both the mom and dad left, she was raised by her grandmother. She will tell both funny (cute grandmother stories) and mean stories about her grandmother - like the grandmother pulling her hair, calling her an ugly slut when she was a little girl, locking her out of the house at night and then calling the police in the morning saying that R/L/F ran away, etc. The grandmother was sexually molested/raped by her father her entire childhood until she left home (generations of sexual abuse in this family). The R/L/F ended up having two kids when a teenager with a guy that ended up being addicted to heroin (they don't know what happened to him now - last saw him a few years ago on the streets all skinny and with all his teeth missing - would be in mid-30s today). The R/L/F ended up marrying a man that is a registered sex offender (found out he was having an affair/relationship with his pre-teen/early teenaged daughter), with her son and daughter living together with them both. She would tell me stories about how much she loves her husband, and yet she was so afraid for her daughter that she wouldn't let her out of sight. If R/L/F was in the shower - she would make the daughter sit outside with her back facing her! She thought this was so loving and doesn't understand why her daughter can't stand her - and when she told me that I thought, "Holy hell!!! I don't blame her daughter for having too much of her mom! No wonder she wants away so badly!" Both her daughter and son have been taken out of her custody and are living with her father (no longer an alcoholic). Her son has been diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Disorder - and both kids are in alternative school and have emotional problems. Blames the judge's decision about the kids saying that the judge didn't like her because she was jealous of her (her pretty blonde hair, etc).

She's had numerous people block her on Facebook, avoid contact with her, freak out on her, etc. Always, she's the victim, they were jealous of her and didn't like her, etc.

She does have animals. In fact, in her country home she has an entire family of chickens, ducks, rabbits, five dogs, some foster pets, and many numerous cats around the place.

She has attempted therapy many times in the past... but each time there's always a "problem." This last time things seemed to be going great until she missed an appointment (bad time management) and the therapist never called her - if he's too busy to call me then he doesn't have time or care about me, etc. She's never gone past a few appointments. Totally turned off toward the idea of therapy.