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I’m not sure how to help.
My mother is biopolar and has borderline personality disorder, growing up I was a very quiet child and hid all my feelings inside despite how hard everything was. My 14 year old sister is very different, she's vocal about everything and has gone through a hard time with her drug addict father (whom she spent most of her life with sadly) passing away recently.
My mum recently got my sister into her care and she can't handle my sister and has asked everyone she knows (including me) if they could take her in, but no one is able to. My sister is suicidal, self harms, runs away from home and needs proper help which my mum claims she is giving her but all she seems to do is drink and play the victim which is what she's done her whole life instead of looking out for her children's needs.
I told my mum to step up, get help and focus on helping my sister and building a relationship with her but my mum thought that was too harsh to say and just threatened to disappear herself.
I want to help my sister, I don't think being with my mum is helping her at all, my mum is too focused on herself. I thought about calling child services but my whole life child services came to me and did nothing when I was clearly in need of help so I'm not sure what else to do. How do I get my sister out? Would foster care be a better choice?
