I live with my brother. Financially it's an awesome situation, as I don't pay anything to stay here. Any money I make goes to quality food, medical stuff, and salon appointments. If I left it would be more difficult getting through school, and I'd likely need to take a few semesters off throughout to work full time and accumulate money.
But he's getting pretty bad. Goes through ~4 fifths of vodka each week, and is fucked up on coke on a daily basis. It really doesn't help that he's working crazy long hours, like sometimes 15 hour shifts. He's angry always. Punches holes in the walls, breaks shit and threatens me with violence. He hasn't hit me or anything in a long time, but sometimes I'm scared he might. It's frightening watching him act so destructively, toward himself and everything around him. I'm really tired of picking up broken glass. He looks awful. Lips so chapped they look white, bags under his eyes... just so unhealthy.
And it's affecting me. Quite a bit.
He's seeing a counselor since the courts made him after his second DUI, and he says he's going to detox soon. But he's been saying that for over a month now. Nothing is getting done. He misses his counseling more often than makes it, and when the counselor pressures him to start detox he makes up some lame excuse.
I'm not sure what to do.
