I Am a Daughter of a Mentally Ill Mom

Oh... where to start. Well, my mom is an epileptic. When she was 15 she had a stroke and survived but the result of the stroke was a crippled hand and brain damage of half of her brain. I remember when I was little she wasn't so crazy...

My mom has paranoid schizophrenia...no its not like how they portray schizophrenia on TV. She creates connections where there aren't any.  She is the center of her delusion.  When I was growing up no one explained to me what...

my mom is a hoarder. she also has some other kind of mental illness but had never been diagnosed because she refuses to seek treatment. she has a master's degree in social work and used to be a therapist before she got fired.  she...

I live with my mom and I'm 41 years old....I can't tell you how much of a loser that makes me feel. But it's not just I'm 41 and unsuccessful, but I'm terrified of turning into my mom, who is 61 and equally unsuccessful..in life. Oh...

As far back as I can remember, my mom was depressed.  We never had a conversation as daughter and mom.  We never laughted together.  We went shopping but never spoke or interacted with each other.  She never taughte me anything...

I love my mother, but she is driving me up the wall. Part of the problem is her inability to connect emotionally to me. I am 37, and my boyfriend passed away suddenly last year. When I came home, I expected her to show sympathy, instead...

Can you alienate/cut off someone who hurts you so deeply? Even when that person is your mother. There is a constant struggle between 'I need to distance myself from this' and 'can she even control this?'

My mother is both bi-polar and schizophrenic. Starting with the positive she is also my best friend, and only person I can truly talk to and be myself with. When she is on her medications and balanced she is literally the nicest person...

My mom calls me 5-10 times in a row. There's a lot of screaming and accusations, she hangs up on me and then calls back to tell me she loves me. It's truly exhausting.

Basically I am now a struggling 19 year old. I ran away from "home" at 16 because my father would beat me up occasionally and was very verbally abusive. He would get me against the wall soo close I could feel his breath as he would...

I'm guessing not the best one though. As a kid I did get into things but nothing illegal. I didn't get suspended, I never stole or took drugs, I've never even tried pot. I was asked to clean the house before they came home and watch the...

My mom used to throw the christmas trees. She would lock herself in bathrooms threatening to kill herself when I was little. She took us to the hills was gunna drive us kids off a cliff when I was little. She would go around the house...

my story well where do i start where do i end

- i dont even feel like i want to ruin peoples lives with her bad stories - im  hoping you will understand - its so bad and so awful its like weird -

ive put up with it for years...

please forgive me but this is the only place where I can vent and cry with other that know my pain . I think I'm loseing my mind I'm yelling at her and I know in my heart she ill but some times I swear she dose things just to piss me...

My mother was diagnosed Manic Depressive, Paranoid and she had attempted Suicide a few times in her life. After her age of 50, Jean developed agoraphobia and became delusional. This was a caustic combination for me throughout my life...

My mom was mentally unwell for as long as I can remember... Until today, I'm 22 years old, I still do not know what is the exact illness she is suffering from... Maybe because I never wanted to find out... I find her to be such an...

My mom has been home bound since i was 7, I'm 16 now. She has suffered with PTSD (post tramatic stress disorder) my whole life, due to her bad childhood.  I've never been able to relate to anyone growing up because most kids have...