There is such a thing as a professional intervention that sometimes work. It worked with my Dad.
Other than that there is not much. Don't enable them, don't cosign their BS, don't bail them out. Basically let them suffer the natural consequences of their actions. You can refuse to be a part of their lives but don't expect that to change them.
Main thing is to take of yourself as sewerrats said.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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