belistiwa
Status: Losing my mind
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- On 11/24 my younger brother died. As my older brother and mother are the only remaining members of the family, and my mother has dimentia and my older brother is homeless, it is up to me to handle the estate and arrangements.It was during this that...
- I just lost my home in Maine and my daughter and I returned to Rhode Island and moved into my mother's house. She is 15 and bi-polar.Things between us were pretty good when we arrived, in September, but she was enrolled in public school here, and...
- I moved in with my mother so she would not be alone when she got out of the nursing home - and I lost my house and have no where else to go. I have a child to take care of, as well, and it is too much. She has come home now, and will lose the house...
- I was living in Maine for 7 years, with my daughter and my brother. My daughter and I had a PCP, therapist, and med management Psychiatrist, as we are both on psych meds, and it was under control.My brother stopped chipping in and I was over budget...
- My teenage daughter, who has a mental illness and is in treatment, can become quite abusive. She is socially inept, and most of her troubles are because of this. We, together, have recently experienced a trauma, relocating due to the loss of our...
- My mother is in the dementia ward of a nursing home after having fallen and fracturing her spine -- and when I visited her yesterday morning, she was not wearing underwear, and had not showered. I went back after dinner time, and she had been pushed...
- I have a 14 year old who is bi-polar. Sometimes she loses control of herself, and all the adults in the family are aware of her condition.I adopted her - she is originally my granddaughter.A few weeks ago, I sent her on vacation to visit her aunts...
- I have adopted my granddaughter, who is bipolar. Her mother, my younger daughter, and her aunt, my older daughter, are still trying to control her life and upbringing. They are basing their controlling behavior on their own upbringing, which was in...
- 7 years ago I moved to an old farmhouse to start a new life in partnership with my brother. We were both divorced and on our own, and at a loss as to how to work out lives out in out late middle age.We came up with the brilliant idea of getting an...
- 7 years ago I bout a 1 1/2 acre farm in Maine and moved in with my Brother. It has been one disaster after another. I had a pipe freeze, which blew up part of the plumbing and heating, which needed to be replaced, as well as a new well needed to be...
- I compulsively save things. I was brought up in a home so jam packed in places that you had to turn sideways and slip through the tiny isle between the excessive piles. While my house is not that bad, I have a very hard time throwing away anything...
- Two years ago I had a major manic episode. The doctor I was seeing told me that it was an anxiety attack and put me on anti anxiety meds.Well they didn't work. They put me to sleep. By the end of the year I was in agony and so depressed I could...
- I live in Maine, am covered by Mainecare, and am in therapy. I need therapy so much that I cannot work, and haven't been able to for a few years now.My therapist told me that she was told that the legislature of Maine signed a thing stating that...
- I moved from RI to ME 4 1/2 years ago and I hate it here. I actually bought the place, and am going to have to sell it in order to afford to relocate back home. But I can't seem to get moving. The place is a really old farmhouse, with a huge barn...
- I am not one of those people that likes to live in constant "crisis mode", but my life has been like that - constant crisis; constant drama.I've been in crisis mode since 1995, when my parents, who lived in Maine (and I lived in RI), had a car...