Posting here for traffic as I’ve tried “chat” but no replies. Name changed for obvious reasons.
Growing up, my sister has a few mental health issues. The main issues my sister had through her teens and 20s were eating disorders. She got through it but would then fall back into it. At one point, she stopped drinking alcohol as if she drank alcohol she’d end up binging and purging at the end of the night. Instead of just stopping drinking though, she replaced it with taking cocaine, as that didn’t have the same effect. When she told me all of this I did my best to help her see sense, that she was substituting one problem for another. As far as I know, she stopped doing that.
Anyway, quite a long while down the line, I realised that she was drinking quite a lot. She was sort of embarrassing herself at family events and anyway she ended up blurting out that she’d drank every day for the last 3 months. She seemed depressed at that time. I told her to try to quit alcohol for a spell, even a few weeks or a month to give her body a break. She looked at me in disbelief and said she really didn’t think that was necessary, she’d just cut back. She quit smoking a number of years ago and she has now started again. At the last family event we were at, she told me during the day that she wasn’t going to drink much on both nights of the trip, but she ended up wasted.
I feel like maybe she has an addictive personality or something and I’m just a little worried about how she’s been acting recently. Do you think any of this is a cause for concern or am I blowing this out of proportion. Thank you.