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<blockquote data-quote="OTE" data-source="post: 10765"><p>Oh Janet, mine started Valium when my father died in 65 and uses it to this day. Mine thinks the purpose of a minister is to listen to her for an hour once a week. He has assured me that he has suggested that she see a psychiatrist and a psychologist but she refuses.</p><p></p><p>I gave up hope years ago that mine would ever face reality about her mental illness. She honestly believes, I think, that I have cut her off because I'm angry. LOL. She just won't see it at all. I am 100% certain that my mother will die believing that she did everything right and she is not ill at all. I'm not suggesting that anxiety disorder can be cured, it's a difficult illness to deal with at any time. But refusal to recognize it exists means that they don't even try to control it. If they even made an effort to examine their thought process they might make some improvements.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and we missed the "I'm so ill" routine all the time. She cannot have a phone call or conversation without complaining about something, some pain she has. She's been predicting she's not going to see her next BD for 12 yrs now. LOL. But it's as real to her that she's dying (despite whatever the docs tell her) as if she had real pain. I think it's anxiety that she's going to be left alone to die... stemming from her own grandfather's long illness and death in a horrid nursing home in the 20's and 30's.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OTE, post: 10765"] Oh Janet, mine started Valium when my father died in 65 and uses it to this day. Mine thinks the purpose of a minister is to listen to her for an hour once a week. He has assured me that he has suggested that she see a psychiatrist and a psychologist but she refuses. I gave up hope years ago that mine would ever face reality about her mental illness. She honestly believes, I think, that I have cut her off because I'm angry. LOL. She just won't see it at all. I am 100% certain that my mother will die believing that she did everything right and she is not ill at all. I'm not suggesting that anxiety disorder can be cured, it's a difficult illness to deal with at any time. But refusal to recognize it exists means that they don't even try to control it. If they even made an effort to examine their thought process they might make some improvements. Oh, and we missed the "I'm so ill" routine all the time. She cannot have a phone call or conversation without complaining about something, some pain she has. She's been predicting she's not going to see her next BD for 12 yrs now. LOL. But it's as real to her that she's dying (despite whatever the docs tell her) as if she had real pain. I think it's anxiety that she's going to be left alone to die... stemming from her own grandfather's long illness and death in a horrid nursing home in the 20's and 30's. [/QUOTE]
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