An older sister from South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
It is taking bright, educated and promising young people and utterly destroying their lives, families, their futures and their dreams. My little sister was in college, on the golf team and getting straight As. Now she has been to prison, convicted of felonies, lost everything in her life including her relationships with us, her family and is living on the streets.
We feel so helpless and unable to reach her. We have tried and tried to help her "restart" only to fail every single time. She blames us for her failed attempts. She falls deeper and deeper in a pit that we can't reach into. It happened so fast and nothing seems to work. It is very heartbreaking and infuriating that someone you love is trapped in this hell that you cannot rescue them from. You just want to run in and scoop them up and whisk them away from their bad choices and unsafe lifestyle, but every time they run back.