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shortandcute · Jan 14, 2015, 08:16 PM

There have been times (not recently) when I have talked about my oldest sister on PC. She and her husband were my legal guardians for the last two years of high school, and there was a lot of emotional, religious, and verbal abuse---although, having been raised by a dysfunctional and crazy mother, I did not realize for years that I was being abused. For years, I kept making excuses for them. In fact, they even adopted my first born baby (she's now almost 30 and has alcohol fetal syndrome).

Anyway, I've seen a lot of bizarre behavior from my sister over the years (long story) and i kept ignoring it and excusing it. In the last year or so, I started thinking that there might be some mental illness going. And lately it's getting really bad. My niece/daughter ("L") cannot live alone so she still lives with my sister. Well, lately, Sis has been doing things like barging into L's room at about 3 in the morning, almost every morning and tearing up her room looking for drugs. She takes her cell phone from her several times a day to see if she's been calling boys. One time recently, sis was painting the laundry room and just suddenly stopped in the middle of it, and without saying a word, went upstairs and went to bed and left a big mess. L knew my sister had been having a rough time lately, so she went and finished up the painting, and cleaned up. Well, my sister came down just as L was finishing and flew into a rage and had a meltdown. L ended up calling me wanting us to come over because my sis was scaring her. L was sobbing hysterically and said she was afraid that sis was gonna hurt herself. So me and my two other grown kids (19 and 27) went over. My sister was in the corner, crying hysterically, rocking back and forth, and mumbling incoherently.