My other sister got married last weekend and Rach was great! She wasn't sober, but she held it together and I am so proud of her for that. She didn't try to turn the attention to herself and stayed very positive.
Last night she called me, she said she was mortified at hearing how she had behaved at the wedding. I told her I didn't know what she was talking about. Over the course of the night we exchanged several phone calls and text messages. She was convince my parents had been talking about her all day to relatives and friends, saying she was an embarrassment to the family. She was sobbing. So finally, even though it was very late, I called my parents to ask what was going one...they had no idea what she or I was talking about.
I told Rach something was wrong because Mom and Dad were not talking about her and no one thought she'd been inappropriate at the wedding or the reception. Rach then told me Mom was listening to our phone call and repeating what she said to someone on the other phone line. Then she told me our other sister and her new husband had some how tapped her phone and were listening in.
So, knowing Rach had a doc's appointment today for an anti-depressant, I emailed my Mom and told her about this so she could tell the doctor.
This morning I woke up (late for work after all this late night madness) and discovered two text messages. One from Rach telling me she hadn't slept and was stressed and she couldn't handle me calling her an addict bitch (which I never said). The other message from my Mom telling me to ignore the DTs.
I called my Mom this morning and asked was DTs were and she explained that sometime when someone is going through withdrawal they can have hallucinations and become very paranoid. She said the doctor told her he couldn't do anything for it so it was better to keep her at home. My parents are going to keep Rach until she dries out then take her back to her apartment a couple hours away.
I read online that DTs can be extremely dangerous when it reaches such severity as hallucinations (Rach's are auditory, not visual as far as I know). It even said sometimes DTs can cause heart attack, seizures and sometimes death.
I'm scared.
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