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Schizophrenic Mother
My mother was recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia, yet she is in denial. If you scream at her to get help, her face remains completely unchanged and emotionless.
She thinks everyone is out to get her, and against her; trying to take me and my brother away from her,which has already been done.
In March of last year, my little brother John was taken by his father from my mother. She hasn't seen him since. But he did it for John's own safety because at the time, my mother was somewhat abusing me, and she went to jail for it for four months.
She blames my father, Johns father, and her own mother for everything that;s happening to her, and nothing we say will convince her to get help. She doesn't think she needs help, and absolutely refuses to get it.
On June 4th of this year my grandmother is going to stop paying for my mother hotel room [since the state of Georgia won't allow her to be around me alone] and is going to stop helping all in one.
Then we're going to Virgina for about 5 days; so my mother won't come to us asking for more help.
Thinking about doing that to my own mother, whom I love to death, breaks my heart.
I really need help on how to make her understand that she needs help...or I'll never have my old mother back ):
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hey hun.
dont listen to any of these other girls.
my mom vvas diagnosed vvith skitz too.. she has suffered from multiple personality for as long as i can remember, I cried almost evry night for tvvo years straight. & sometimes i vvanted to give up.. My mom has 7 kids & she left us all to go off and find her ovvn Journey. my mom lived on the streets for 3 years; and vvas a drug addict. i suggest you trick her into going to a psych vvard, or have police escort her there. this vvill be hard for you. but my mom got picked up on the side of the railroad tracks by the police and vvhen she knovvs its time for help she knosss. Keep loving her too im the only one in my family that has stayed vvith her for so long. I tend to care more than my brothers & sister. My mom just got out of the psych vvard.. vvas puton meds and novv transferred over to a program that is like a shelter. she is coming to live vvith me in a fevv vveeks because she has gotten so much better. She livesin Montana andi live in NY so it vvas ten times harder for me to help her.. if you ever need advice on this or just someone to talk to IM me dont be shy. hollisterhotts87 i kno hovv it feels.. please let me kno hovv it goes.. Jackieee <3
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i understand that you want to help her and all, but to tell you the truth you have done all you can. she has a mental illness and no matter what you say she will probably never believe you that she does, unless she gets medicine and help. i think the best thing for you to do in this situation is to help yourself, meaning get out of there and go live with someone else and not have to deal with her because im sure it is adding so much stress to your life and holding you back from doing the things you want to achieve in life. in time your mother will get better but it will be a long and hard road that she will have to take. im really sorry that you are having to go through this but in the end she will be alot better then before, im not saying everything is going to be perfect, but i no it will be alot better then before. i really hope everything turns out okay and if you have any other questions you can send me a message. i hope i helped! :)
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i dont think there's much you can really do. she needs to figure it out for herself, although with schizophrenia it would be harder for that to happen.
but really, i think you need to just be there for her. if you arent allowed to live with her anymore then write her letters and call her. oh wait. if she doesnt have a place to stay that would be very difficult...perhaps your grandmother cutting your mother off when she has schizophrenia isnt the best solution.
all you can do is hope something will happen. honest to god, i dont think you have much control over what your grandmother does.
just make sure your mother knows that you love her and act normal around her, and not like there is anything wrong. make sure she sees that you arent against her and you just like being with her. other than that, shes just going to have to figure things out for herself, sad as that may seem.
good luck-you're in one tough pickle.
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