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[quote=Anonymous]She is a grown up and she will have to decide if she wants help.  You can send her to a psychiatrist and to rehab.  It won't mean a damn thing if she is not receptive to the help.  And slapping labels on her at this point in the game "Alcoholic" "Bipolar" "Borderline Personality Disorder" will just serve to alienate her and will quite likely just piss her off.  Having a label for this might make *you* feel better, it might make your parents feel less guilty.  But it won't help your sister if she resents the hell out of it.

To some degree Sis really does need some sort of shake up or wake up call to make her *want* to get her act together. The partying and the hooking up that she is doing is on the extreme side. But it is not unusual for early 20 somethings to be heavily involved in the social scene (partying, clubbing, etc). Thank goodness she is not into heavy drugs.

But your parents are enabling her to JUST party.  And that is all that she is doing, that is her life.  Why work when you can get free food, rent, beer money.  Why work when you can come and go as you please and stay out all night if you want to, do what feels good in the moment - it's not like you have to go to work in the morning.

Unless there is some disordered thought going on or she's suicidal, majorly depressed - a dose of reality may be what she needs most right now.[/quote]

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