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I have reason to believe that one of my sisters has anywhere between 1 to 3 different personality disorders. It's pretty severe. I'm lucky in that I don't live in the same town as her and that she doesn't attempt to pry herself into my life. She has others she does that to, but she does it quite severely.
You can't really reason with people who have personality disorders. This means that if they won't seek help, there's not much you can do but either bear it or avoid it.
If you bear it, keep in mind that they might not always be aware of what they're doing and that to them what they do might seem perfectly rational/normal/expected even when it's clearly not. It might even seem to them an entitlement. Try to find a way to navigate around that or to otherwise minimize its impact on you and your family.
Have you read any books on personality disorders? Some focus on friends and families of sufferers and how to manage it from the outside.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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