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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 287660" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>Your sister sounds AMAZING!! Be sure you show her your appreciation and love for her!</p><p></p><p>I would refuse to see difficult child. If she comes by the house do not let her in unless she can PROVE she is in drug treatment and therapy to get out of her chosen lifestyle. She won't get out of the lifestyle until she is drug free, and drug free will ONLY come with a break from her lifestyle. So if you see her, and get dragged back into the tornado of conflama (conflict + drama = conflama), then it only feeds her need for her lifestyle. You ARE her safety net. Now is the time to take that net away. She can EARN it back by getting clean, sober, and out of the hooking lifestyle. </p><p></p><p>Get into a medical doctor. Preferable a psychiatrist, and also a therapist for therapy. The psychiatrist will rx medications. You need the long term SSRI medications, but do NOT take effexor until you have tried other medications and failed them. Once you hit a certain dose the side effects from effexor can be terrifying. I thought I was going to die. husband thought he was going to have to force me to check in to a psychiatric hospital. stopping it was HARD. I actually had to take prozac to get through the withdrawal symptoms. I only learned how that would help from an online friend. There is a chemical reason and it only took 1 prozac a week to deal with them and make me feel like a person again.</p><p></p><p>You also may need ambien CR or lunesta for sleep. Or trazadone is often used. I took one fourth of a 25mg tablet and it knocked me out. But I woke up in 8 or 9 hours and was really refreshed. Wiz takes 75 mg and finally is sleeping through the night. He started at half of a 25 mg tablet and titrated up until he found his dose. Elavil is also often given for help with sleep.</p><p></p><p>Sending lots of hugs to you!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 287660, member: 1233"] Your sister sounds AMAZING!! Be sure you show her your appreciation and love for her! I would refuse to see difficult child. If she comes by the house do not let her in unless she can PROVE she is in drug treatment and therapy to get out of her chosen lifestyle. She won't get out of the lifestyle until she is drug free, and drug free will ONLY come with a break from her lifestyle. So if you see her, and get dragged back into the tornado of conflama (conflict + drama = conflama), then it only feeds her need for her lifestyle. You ARE her safety net. Now is the time to take that net away. She can EARN it back by getting clean, sober, and out of the hooking lifestyle. Get into a medical doctor. Preferable a psychiatrist, and also a therapist for therapy. The psychiatrist will rx medications. You need the long term SSRI medications, but do NOT take effexor until you have tried other medications and failed them. Once you hit a certain dose the side effects from effexor can be terrifying. I thought I was going to die. husband thought he was going to have to force me to check in to a psychiatric hospital. stopping it was HARD. I actually had to take prozac to get through the withdrawal symptoms. I only learned how that would help from an online friend. There is a chemical reason and it only took 1 prozac a week to deal with them and make me feel like a person again. You also may need ambien CR or lunesta for sleep. Or trazadone is often used. I took one fourth of a 25mg tablet and it knocked me out. But I woke up in 8 or 9 hours and was really refreshed. Wiz takes 75 mg and finally is sleeping through the night. He started at half of a 25 mg tablet and titrated up until he found his dose. Elavil is also often given for help with sleep. Sending lots of hugs to you!! [/QUOTE]
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