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Tue Jul 07, 2020 7:58 pm
Hi there.
I have been caring for my Mother since she suffered a mental breakdown in 2016.
She was diagnosed with GAD and depression and despite CBT, psychological therapy, and being under a mental health team has not engaged in any of it and none has been successful.
Her anxiety is so severe that she worries from the moment she wakes up until bedtime and requires constant reassurance. But even then will not listen to me.
I am lucky enough to be able to work from home full time but daily life is hard.
I cannot go out even to the local shop, a walk, or spend some time in the garden without my Mother trying to stop me.
She now barely eats and weighs just 5 stone and I have had the GP visit as things have become so bad. She keeps saying that she does not like food any more and every day ia a battle so I have now been using Ensure plus drinks as a food supplement. She has been on all the anxiety medication there is and nothing has worked as she really does not want to get better.
She also suffers from obsessive behaviour as there is not one part of a day that is normal. She has no empathy for me at all to the point where if I get upset she just looks blankly at me and doesn't react at all.
She has dropped out of society in every aspect and after 4 years I no longer have any hope.
I have lost my Mum, who was my best friend and I am so exhausted daily and feel like a prisoner, way before lockdown started. I am terrified that she is going to become seriously ill through her lack of eating.
Sleeping at night is my only respite.
I feel guilty complaining as others are having it hard but I don't know who to turn to.
Thank you for reading my post.
I have been caring for my Mother since she suffered a mental breakdown in 2016.
She was diagnosed with GAD and depression and despite CBT, psychological therapy, and being under a mental health team has not engaged in any of it and none has been successful.
Her anxiety is so severe that she worries from the moment she wakes up until bedtime and requires constant reassurance. But even then will not listen to me.
I am lucky enough to be able to work from home full time but daily life is hard.
I cannot go out even to the local shop, a walk, or spend some time in the garden without my Mother trying to stop me.
She now barely eats and weighs just 5 stone and I have had the GP visit as things have become so bad. She keeps saying that she does not like food any more and every day ia a battle so I have now been using Ensure plus drinks as a food supplement. She has been on all the anxiety medication there is and nothing has worked as she really does not want to get better.
She also suffers from obsessive behaviour as there is not one part of a day that is normal. She has no empathy for me at all to the point where if I get upset she just looks blankly at me and doesn't react at all.
She has dropped out of society in every aspect and after 4 years I no longer have any hope.
I have lost my Mum, who was my best friend and I am so exhausted daily and feel like a prisoner, way before lockdown started. I am terrified that she is going to become seriously ill through her lack of eating.
Sleeping at night is my only respite.
I feel guilty complaining as others are having it hard but I don't know who to turn to.
Thank you for reading my post.
