
Shes 72 never diagnosed she keeps making a Dr appointment then cancels. Shes Bipolar & suffers from Depression yes on meds. She.couldnt remember what school I graduated from & insists Im lieing & trying to make her look nuts. She hung the phone bcz she said shes about to get mad at me. Im 54 years old I dont live w her she insists shes fine she doesnf need help. Im an only child where do I go from here? She said she wants no contact w me pretty much...Ive always been there for emotional support she calls me everyday...what is going on?
I answered her question again on the "Why didn't my post get more answers" thread, so won't repeat it here, but am bumping up this question so it will be on page one and perhaps have more responses for our OP.
Do not take POA over her. Do not move her in with you.
Immediately order a copy (cheap used on amazon) of Liz Scheier's memoir Never Simple.
Ms Scheier tried to intervene, care for, get help for her mentally challenged mother for decades, and even had the help of the Social Services of the city and state of New York. All to no avail. All to no good result.
If she says she doesn't want any support from you, then believe that.
She knows your contact numbers if she needs you.
Mental illness in this country --the state of things, the inability of any to intervene on a citizen's rights "to be crazy" according to some judges, makes it impossible to intervene, and hopeless.
I am so dreadfully sorry. I cannot imagine standing helpless witness to this, but that essentially is what you are. Please try to get into a support group of some kind. You badly need it.
My guess is the OP isn't taking their meds.
Is there someone at the IL she will listen to about getting tested asap for a UTI?