I Seriously (No Joke) think My Sister is Suffering From Psychosis

For months we have been trying to figure out what is wrong with my younger sibling R. Since our grade school years R has always had a difficult time making and keeping friends. It wasn't for lack of manners or niceness, quite the contrary. When we were younger she was a very affectionate and sweet little girl. Somewhat Tomboyish, but very sweet none the less.

Well, she constantly the victim of bullys, and it was a very bad streak especially in Jr. High. At one point an entire group of children spit on her and her boyfriend as she got off the bus and he greeted her. It was terrible. But as her family we did everything in our power to help her get through this. My mom had her change schools a couple of times, I stood up for her and introduced her to my groups of friends which still would end up in catastrophe often. For some reason she simply could not get along. About the time she was 14 she started dating a mutual friend of ours and they (much) later married and had two children, then divirced and she has since remarried. But her innability to keep friends has followed her all this time.

Now here is where things get really bad.

In December, she and the family came to serious blows over her personality problem. She refuses to take responsibility for her actions or her childrens actions. She blames my mother for the fact that she ever married this mutual friend of ours, blames our mother that she didn't have an abortion with her second son (something my mother refused to give an opinion on - she said it was entirely her choice). she claims to be the victim of a violent crime, despite the fact that the entire family was present on the date of this alleged attack, and no one recalls any such incident. We recall that she was acting rather irresposnibly on that particular day, and that she made a claim to the incident after something happened. But her claim is so irrefutably absurd that it prompted a huge family scandal that has lasted for about 6 years now.

In August of last year she moved back home with our mother. By December her children (my nephews whom I adore) had caused thousands of dollars worth of damage to the pool (because she never >and I mean never< watches her children), and had taken my mom for quite a bit of money. When she moved, our step father refused to allow her to remove the washer and dryer from the house until she repaid the money she owed. They refused, and she actually had the audacity to contact the police to have them escort her to remove the items. They denied her the access to the property, as she had also claimed at this point that my mother had kidnapped the children and locked them in an office.

When my mother found out she had accused her of kidnapping she became afraid for her own safety and placed a no tresspass on this woman who I used to call my sister.

Now we've found out not only did she do this, but then later returned to the police and tried to accuse our mother of domestic violence and press charges. The charges were promptly dismissed (without us ever having known anything about it until recently).

Nowadays she frequents a website for the people dealing with family members who have personality disorders. She has each of us diagnosed with our own individual prepackaged neurosis (I am a visciously jealous person with a massive inferiority complex in case you wanted to know). And claims to have had this unbearably abusive childhood where WE (not her peers) tormented her daily, making her feel less than human. And to this day she suffers with the feelings of low self esteem and self doubt. She feels betrayed and like there is always a knife aimed at her back... And she blames it all on the family.

Not the people who really did torment her, not the people who pushed her around! THE PEOPLE WHO SPENT THE BETTER PART OF HER LIFE PROTECTING HER!!!

Ok. I've remaintained my composure. So... I am trying to find out what is wrong with this individual.

Any ideas?