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I started a second PT job working at a womens group home for individuals with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems.
One of the girls is the sweetest person but due to her MI she makes terrible decisions and doesn't remember basic safety rules. We literally have to tell her every time she leaves "OK Alice (not her name), remember don't get in anyone's car, knock on doors, or go with anyone you don't know" and she's like "OK ". She will think random people are her husband and ofc some sick people take advantage of that. She also does meth sporadically so that doesn't help anything and there's a meth house literally one house down and one house over. She has disappeared before and will be spotted on the highway or one time she was found in a cornfield she slept in because she "wanted to see what it was like (she was high)".
Well I go in for my shift this morning and she's gone. She left yesterday, came back around midnight wanting her meds and we refused them to her because she was clearly intoxicated and protocol is we don't administer if we suspect they're high/drunk, we offer to take them to the hospital for a toxicology or they can fess up to what they're on. Can't risk a negative drug interaction. That pissed her off and she left (they have choice, we can only advise) and hasn't been home since. I'm super worried about her and the worst part is that she could be literally 100ft away from me at that fucking drug house and there's nothing I can do. I even knocked and asked if she's there and was told no but honesty they wouldn't tell me if she was. She goes over there and they'll basically use her for sex and keep her high and it pisses me off so much CE. She will literally do whatever you tell her to do and she asks permission to do anything, so somebody broke her long ago and she's going to get hurt someday.

It really fucking sucks caring about people sometimes. I've gotten less than 2 hours sleep because I'm worried about her and keep looking out the doors and windows to see if I spot her walking around.