My sister (17) & I (20) have grown up in a very distressing home environment our mother is an emotional abusive alcoholic with severe issues & our father is constantly high, having fallen into a pattern of blindly following my mother so as to avoid her abusive tirades against him his blindness is so extreme that both my sister & I have experienced physical abuse at the hands of my father at the request of my mother
Growing up my sister and I were embarrassed about our family issues and hid it from everyone We would have horrible abusive fights before walking into friends houses or school & then pretend like everything was fine
When I was 18, I finished high school & moved out of home freeing myself. I left my sister behind (14) As a result she began to develop anxiety, refusing to get out of bed in the morning or go to school. The abuse from my parents intensified & to everyone else it looked as though my sister was being as my parents put it "a brat" For 2 years my sister struggled she received some respite when she was placed into boarding school (16) but this made my parents feel like they were loosing control over her & abuse intensified. This year my sister had her first suicide attempt, this caused a lot of family issues to come to light & for the first time my sister & I got acknowledgement for the abuse we suffered
The problem we face now is that since being released from hospital the only place she has to go is back with is my parents, I live in a share house & have had her live there before but it did not work. We have tried to talk to her psychiatrist however he wants to see that she can maintain a stable living situation & says he is trying to help our parents with their issues
As someone who experienced the abuse first hand & has to listen to her cry at 3am after a tough night, I know she needs to get out of there. Unfortunately we have no family. None, no uncles no aunties a few family friends but our mother is so unstable she would make things extremely difficult for someone trying to help us. She has in the past shown up at friends houses and yelled at them, making out that we were both spoilt brats etc
Does anyone know of anyway that my sister can get some kind of financial support to find a permanent living situation close to me that works for her? Or any charities that provide support? I wish I could support her financially but I'm a full time student barely making ends meet myself. we're both starting to feel hopeless.
