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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP isn’t trying to get her sister sterilized.  She’s worried.  People come on this website all the time to talk about things that worry them.  That’s a valid use of this website.  Sometimes people have useful ways of reframing thinking, or concrete steps one can take to minimize whatever it’s s your worried will happen.  People have shared some of those things.  Everyone knows OP has no right to control her sister.  She does have a right to her feelings.  Some of those feelings may be informed by unresolved trauma of being the younger sibling of someone with serious mental health challenges.[/quote]

This.

It’s very, very hard having a sibling (especially your only sibling) with mental illness serious enough to be functionally disabling, but not enough to warrant actual supportive services (I know those are extremely hard to come by in this country).  My sister struggles with drug and alcohol addiction, lots of mental illness, and I absolutely worry about her younger daughter.  Thankfully, her older daughter solely lives with her dad, but the younger has an unstable father.  People here screaming EUGENICS over a sibling’s reasonable concern aren’t helpful and they aren’t even making a good point.

Hang in there, OP.  I do hope for the best possible outcome in this case.[/quote]

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