Her Mentally Ill Mother Moved In With Her, Again, And Is Making Life Unimaginably Tough So She’s Wondering How To Deal With It
Struggling with mental illness is undoubtedly challenging. But, it can also place a tremendous amount of stress on the caretakers or family members involved.
This woman is struggling to manage living with her fifty-year-old, mentally ill mother.
The woman is only twenty-six years old, and her mother moved in with her again after being evicted from her apartment for erratic behavior.
Her mother is diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and has made living in the apartment very difficult for her and her boyfriend.
“We have been constrained to staying in our bedroom because of her actions. My mother does not take medicine and believes there is nothing wrong with her,” the woman explained.
When her mother has visual or auditory hallucinations, she believes they are from God. For example, the mother believes that God told her she did not have to pay rent.
So, she was evicted from three apartments in the past three years. She also scared tenants and was disruptive.
“I’ve kept her once before after being released from a mental hospital, but she was in a better mental place from the medicine she was given,” the woman said, “As soon as the medicine worse off and she did not follow up with it, she has been very delusional.”
This woman also has no outside help from other family members. Instead, her mother acts like she owns the apartment.
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She will not let the woman clean, sleep with her dog, and even tampers with the temperature control in the woman’s bedroom. Then, at night, things become even worse.
“She screams at the stuff she sees and, whenever I bring up her moving out, acts like she doesn’t hear me. I am at my wit’s end,” the woman said.
She has even looked into getting an ECO (Emergency Custody Order), but it is not possible unless her mother threatens to harm herself or others.
This woman is at a loss for what to do anymore. She has been taking care of her mother since she was only twenty-one years old and even dropped out of college to ensure that her mother did not end up homeless.
The saddest part is that her mother treated her terribly as a child, yet she still feels responsible for her wellbeing.
“She was mentally and physically abusive to me growing up and was a drug abuser. Now, I feel like my life will only revolve around taking care of her, and I hate myself for how much I love her regardless of all the cruel stuff she put me through,” the woman said.
The woman has dreams and goals of her own. She wants to have a family and be happy, which she cannot do with her mother around.
But, making the choice to cease caring for her is also very difficult. So now, the woman is seeking advice on dealing with her mother.
How would you navigate this upsetting situation? At what point should the woman finally put herself first?
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