Addiction & Recovery

(they both live in same city, while I'm six hours away) and it is a struggle for both, being that C still denies a problem exists, despite being given drugs for her addiction, despite constant trips to the hospital for alcohol-related injuries, etc.

One of the biggest barriers to recovery is C's constant denial of her alcoholism, and constant desire to rely on others for her basic needs, and by this, C wants you to do everything for them.

Don't fall for this. Insist that they be responsible for every facet of their lives and don't enable them ... this is one of the harder things to do, especially for those of us that very close to such people and have that strong desire to help others. You must be strong too. These like C must relearn being responsible again. They must literally adopt a whole new way of living life, w/o the drink.

My best to all, and thanks so much for posting this (and the responses to it)...I plan to send this to my sister B as one of my regular weekly encouragement brother to sister encouragement chats that we have every week.