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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 749248" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>OK. This is psychotic.</p><p></p><p>I would question (in my mind, not necessarily by asking her) here what kinds of drugs she is using. I mean. It is not likely she would tell you, but it could be drug related. If not I would fear this could be the manifestation of a serious mental illness.</p><p></p><p>The thing is, a number of us here have children who are mentally ill or brain damaged or both. It kind of amounts to the same thing, whether it is drugs or primarily illness, because when they are adults we have the control that they permit us (which is usually close to zero) and we are subject to their bad behavior until we stop allowing this.</p><p></p><p>For those of us in our situation, mental illness, I think it is the hardest, because there is such a strong desire to protect, and also there is the extreme guilt that we should somehow protect them. But the long and short of it is we usually protect them best, by boundaries and the insistence that they treat us decently.</p><p></p><p>I am softening lately. I am really not clear why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 749248, member: 18958"] OK. This is psychotic. I would question (in my mind, not necessarily by asking her) here what kinds of drugs she is using. I mean. It is not likely she would tell you, but it could be drug related. If not I would fear this could be the manifestation of a serious mental illness. The thing is, a number of us here have children who are mentally ill or brain damaged or both. It kind of amounts to the same thing, whether it is drugs or primarily illness, because when they are adults we have the control that they permit us (which is usually close to zero) and we are subject to their bad behavior until we stop allowing this. For those of us in our situation, mental illness, I think it is the hardest, because there is such a strong desire to protect, and also there is the extreme guilt that we should somehow protect them. But the long and short of it is we usually protect them best, by boundaries and the insistence that they treat us decently. I am softening lately. I am really not clear why. [/QUOTE]
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