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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Mother in the Psych Hospital
Had to put my mother in a psychiatric hospital on Friday. She became violent, hitting and kicking me and one of the caregivers who had just stopped by her house. She had stopped taking her medications. Now, since it is a 96-hour involuntary commitment, she will have a right to a hearing, on Monday or Tuesday. It will of course be incredibly distressing, both for my mother and for me. She only lasted in her home, with full-time in-home caregivers, and taking her medication, for about a week. I don't know if she will ever be willing/able to live at home again, unless we just let her live the way she has always lived, before... doing exactly what she wants to do, with no interference from anyone. And if we were to do that, it would soon be a case of elder neglect, because she just can't (or won't) take care of herself. My mother now hates me (she looked me in the eye and said to me: "I will hate you forever," and then she hit me in the face, again), because (in her eyes) I am taking away that which is most valuable to her (her capacity to control her own life).
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My Elderly Mother
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