Adult Children of Mentally ill Parents

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Aimore

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Last Post: Oct 23, 2021 12:41am
by Aimore

Faith

Is anyone still using this forum?

Hi, I'm looking for a forum to perhaps vent, learn, listen etc. for adult children of mentally ill mothers. Any recommendations? I just wonder if finder others "like me" might help the healing process.

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Last Post: Sep 28, 2017 12:32pm
by Susan

Orestes

bipolar mother froze to death

Hi all, I'm new to this site, and not entirely sure how it works, but I hope it is a chance to share and learn from others. I'm a 28 year old male working abroad. A few months ago I learned by email that the police had found my mother dead inside our house...

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Last Post: Jun 16, 2017 7:31am
by Susan

Lola

Both parents mentally ill and suffering sister

Hello, I have never availed of an online forum before, but tonight I really feel like I need to talk to someone that understands. People that understand. I am 23 and am medicated for depression myself. I struggled with during the ages of 18 - 20 but now have m...

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Last Post: Jan 8, 2015 3:55pm
by Lola

Cindy

Don't know how to grieve passing of mentally ill mother

My mother was always worried and fearful. I didn't know how much it affected me. I blamed myself for the craziness in our home. I internalized it all. I started looking for what was wrong with me back in my teens through self help books. I never had self confidence....

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Last Post: Jun 22, 2014 7:59pm
by Cindy

Tanya Kennedy

18 year old son refusing medical care for broken clavicle.

My 18 year old son with Mental Illness is refusing to follow the recommended treatment course for a recent broken clavicle bone. I am not sure what to do because it seems to not be healing. He is diagnosed with ODD, Anxiety disorder and Bipolar Disorder since the age...

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Last Post: Jun 6, 2014 1:05pm
by Tanya Kennedy

SuperAlbeee

Mother with possible early dementia...

Where to begin... my mother has not been formally diagnosed with anything other than depression and as being a hoarder. However in recent months I feel that she suffers from a number of mental illness; paranoyer & mild dementia. Firstly about the hoarding... when I s...

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Last Post: Mar 17, 2014 4:01am
by SuperAlbeee

JEna

accused of molesting my child by delusional mentally ill mother...help

my mom has just been diagnosed with a mental illness, im just learning how to deal with it in a different way. Before i would take her delusions accusations and verbal abuse personally and would fight fire with fire with her. Say awful things back. Now that i am unde...

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Last Post: Jun 25, 2013 6:13pm
by JEna

Emilia

My Mother, A Stranger

This is my first post on anything like this in an effort to reach out for support, so here goes nothing. I am eighteen years old, my mother suffers from Bipolar Disorder. She was diagnosed when she was in her twenties, but I did not find out about my mother's illness...

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Last Post: May 16, 2013 8:04pm
by Julia

Courtnet

Where to from here? Help please!

My mother had breast cancer a year and half ago after that she became mentally unwell she was accusing my father of having an affair, she could smell gas in our home, she felt as tho people were following her when she was at home and out and About she used to follow...

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Last Post: Feb 16, 2013 10:10am
by raenah

Glenn

Bi-polar/schizophrenic mother had heart attack.

Hello, I am 43 and have cared for my parents since 2005. My father passed in 2008 of end stages Alzheimer's/dementia. He fell out of the shower after having a stroke; he passed while in respite care right before I needed to decide whether or not to remove hi...

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Last Post: Feb 13, 2013 10:43am
by Glenn

Taylor

Dealing With Mentally Ill Mother after Father's Passing, Need Suppor

I can't explain the, although unfortunate, comfort I have found by reading through posts and realizing I am not alone. To make a back-story short, I had a "normal" childhood. My Dad was my hero, and mom was most always being an amazing mother, my best friend. Occa...

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Last Post: Jan 16, 2013 1:31am
by Taylor

Healing time

best books i have read

For healing and insight for others: My Parents Keeper For insight for others who have not experienced this and let them understand: Growing Up with a Schizophrenia Mother (fast read and clear) Best for understanding and healing for the child now an adult...

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Last Post: Jan 5, 2013 12:36pm
by Healing time

jade

Getting tired of staying strong

I hope i find what im looking for on here but if i dont atleast i can get some venting done! Where to begin! Well im 21 years old and have been a mother to my mom for the past hmmm aslong as i can remember she suffers from depression bipolar borderline personalit...

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Last Post: Dec 26, 2012 10:02pm
by jade

Casey

I don't know what to do

So this is my first post and I'm not quite sure what I expect to gain from it...I have a mother with paranoia personality disorder and I have lived with it my whole life. Throughout my childhood she was extremely hurtful, would constantly tell me I was a terrible per...

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Last Post: Nov 12, 2012 10:01am
by Casey

Doug

Daddy getting ECT again and this adult son feels empty

Thanks for the opportunity to share a moment. I'm at a cross road, petrified to move forward. I'm the only son of an only son who in turn was also an only son. There is a deep vein of extreme mental illness (manic depression)in my family line and I seem to carry the...

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Last Post: Nov 4, 2012 6:09am
by Doug

Marin Sardy

Sharing Our Stories

Hi, I am the adult daughter of a mother who has some form of paranoid schizophrenia/schizoaffective disorder. I just discovered this chat room, which seems to have reached a completely different community of people than the Facebook forums I usually frequent. I'd ju...

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Last Post: Oct 5, 2012 2:58pm
by Marin Sardy

Aimee

Bipolar Mom Deciding to End it all

Hi! This is my first post. I have a mom who is bipolar and has been since I was little. I lived through abuse by her hand with beatings and belittling. She almost chocked me to death when I was 8 with a dish towel. She told me if I told anyone I would be taken aw...

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Last Post: Aug 20, 2012 12:22am
by Aimee

Emma

Don't know what to do anymore, help!

Hello, I am currently living at home and I live in a two bedroom house in the Uk. My mother has mental health issues, my brother has depression (I have to look after him, he can look after himself sometimes) and my dad has diabetes. My dad is the only one tha...

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Last Post: Aug 5, 2012 3:52pm
by cj80

Michelle

Need Help with dysfuntional relationship

Ok. I have been dwelling lately over my mentally ill mother and how I want to move forward with our relationship. My delima is that I have a hard time cutting her off completely without feeling guilty, however her emotional abuse is too overwhelming for me to handle...

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Last Post: Aug 2, 2012 11:04pm
by Janie

Janie

Need Support

I'm very glad I found this forum. After I dealt with many of the issues of growing up with a mentally ill mother and abusive father, I'm only now facing how truly bad it was. I've just started therapy and am finding that connecting with others like me--with paranoid...

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Last Post: Aug 2, 2012 10:57pm
by Janie

cj80

Lose-lose situation

Hello- I've posted once before, things have calmed down since then, but have now blown up into something huge. The reason I'm posting is because I really just need to talk. I feel like I am at my wits end and am alone. I do have a therapist and she has been help...

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Last Post: Aug 1, 2012 7:12pm
by cj80

Zoe

A Rant From A Recovering Adult Child

I always knew I was a perfectly normal freak of nature. Non-human. Humanoid. Like I grew out of my father's head, rather than inside of my mother's womb. I developed uncertainly, while the people around me sat idly by, silently sanctioning our self-imposed exile....

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Last Post: Jul 23, 2012 9:14am
by Lisa

Ashleigh

Starting Adult life with a childhood full of the unresolved

Mother with yet to be diagnosed Bipolar- she has refused physiological help over the years and will only see 'family Councillor s' I am about to reach my 23rd Birthday, If i could have seen how far i have come. From a young girl terrified to walk through the front d...

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Last Post: Jul 15, 2012 11:20pm
by Janie

Tiffany

help me please. need some advice

I'm not quite sure what my mothers diagnosis is exactly. She has been unstable for as long as i could remember. When i was younger, about 14, i just assumed that it was because she was on drugs. But now that she is sober she is worse then ever. now she is acting the...

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Last Post: Jul 8, 2012 8:33am
by Annie

Wolf Cub

Caring For Elder Mental Mother

Hi! Sometimes I feel guilty for being somewhat cold to my mother of whome I only take out to run errands. As it seems to me if Im not "cold" emotionally distant she verbally abuses me, it's so sad, but I have to maintain my boudaries. Ive been in therapy for yea...

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Last Post: Jul 2, 2012 3:41am
by geciktirici spre...

I dont know how to cope.

My father has schizophrenia and went off his meds a month ago. He currently is not in his right mind. I dont know how to deal. I cant seem to accept the fact that my father can turn into someone I hardly recognize overnight. I'm very close to my father and seeing...

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Last Post: Mar 17, 2012 3:55pm
by Curt

The Daughter

Mom refuses teatment

My 57-year old mother just suffered a breakdown 4 months ago and has been diagnosed with either bipolar 1 or paranoid schizophrenia. We have been given so little information, we do not even know the actual diagnosis. Please read my blog for more details, and maybe...

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Last Post: Mar 6, 2012 4:53pm
by The Daughter

Gretchen

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Last Post: Feb 4, 2012 2:32pm
by Gretchen

Amy

How can I help?

My sister is paranoid schizophrenic, with bipolar tendencies. . Based on the recent emails I’ve received from her, I think either her condition has worsened or she’s gone off her meds. Among other things, she’s asking for my help. I am praying fo...

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Last Post: Oct 14, 2011 5:17am
by Russell Sova

Sophia

Setting boundaries

I am a 21 female. My mother is a paranoid schizophrenic with BPD tendencies. Only recently I decided I needed to stop contact with her. It hurts because I know she will take it personally, she will not be able to see why I feel I need to do this. She will think I am...

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Last Post: Oct 7, 2011 6:14am
by Russell Sova

Pamela

bipolar mom

product of textbook bipolar (manic/depressive) mother, divorced father...brother committed suicide, i'm nearly the last and afraid for my children -- I guess I'm afraid one of them will be bipolar. As a child of a bipolar mother, i've seen some very crazy things. i d...

Views: 863 Replies: 1

Last Post: Aug 24, 2011 5:33am
by Jonna

Eileen

My 29 Mothers... Accepting my Mother with D.I.D. (aka MPD)

I have a mother who was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (used to be termed Multiple Personality Disorder) a few years ago.... The cause of her disorder was insane sexual abuse from her father for 17 years of her life. How can i hate her when she has gon...

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Last Post: Jul 18, 2011 6:44pm
by Ed

Jae

Abusive schizophrenic parent...can't cope without support!

I was raised by a schizophrenic mother who refused to take meds. Mainly, because it was a "government conspiracy" against her and our family...we were supposedly on the news, camera men lived in our vents, etc, etc. Now, you know, you'd think that almost 30 years lat...

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Last Post: Jul 1, 2011 3:48pm
by natalie

Beth

If Anyone Can Help

After three years of trying to help a mentally ill partner, I finally realized that whatever I do will never be enough... I thought with enough love and support, that I could help her to feel whole and stable. The withdrawal and pulling away has been never ending and...

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Last Post: Jun 3, 2011 7:13am
by Sherri McLain

Sherri McLain

A book about my experiences

Hi everyone, My mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in her early twenties and my father was an alcoholic. I was born during one of my mother’s many stays in a mental hospital, and she was in and out of hospitals throughout my childhood. When I w...

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Last Post: Jun 3, 2011 7:08am
by Sherri McLain

Brittney

The more I try, the more I'm hurt.

to explain my situation, i'm going to type a pretend letter to my mother explaining my feels. Dear mom, Mothers day is here, but not all mothers diserve recognition. I recently visited you in the mental hospital but you tore me apart! You told me that your priori...

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Last Post: May 8, 2011 5:55pm
by Brittney

gmilch

How to best deal with it?

My mom has a plethora of mental disorders and her illness is considered moderate. She uses her disorder as a scapegoat for the relentless grieving she subjects our family to. I wasn't raised by mother but instead by my maternal grandparents. After 31 years of fee...

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Last Post: Apr 6, 2011 9:57pm
by gmilch

Katie Roberta Stevens

My Mother Killed Christ

This forum is a great resource for adult children of mentally ill parents. Until, at age 50, I wrote a book about my experiences growing up as a Catholic school student with a mother who thought she killed Christ, it was never really clear to me that my mother had a...

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Last Post: Mar 29, 2011 8:32am
by Katie Roberta St...

Raquel Silva

Would you mind participating in this study?

Hello, The Dare Institute is conducting a pilot study of moods. We are trying to gather data from a wide range of people and hope that turning to various internet groups will help. Participation is anonymous and all information will be confidential. Th...

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Last Post: Dec 17, 2010 8:07am
by Raquel Silva

Danielle

support groups?

Hi, Does anyone know of support groups for children with parents that are mentally unstable? My mother is bi-polar and I really think it would be nice to find a place where I can meet other people with the same problem.

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Last Post: Oct 23, 2010 2:37pm
by beto vidal

Andrea

Shadowed past, Shadowed future

I really need some advice from children of schizophrenic parents in their 30's and 40s. I'm in my early 20s. I've just graduated from college and am starting a career that I love. There is a wonderful man in my life who I want to marry someday. I have everything...

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Last Post: Oct 12, 2010 8:42am
by Jaime

new- happy to have found this forum

How great to find this forum! There don't seem to be many, and it can be so isolating dealing with our parents alone with no-one that understands. Finally, I see people do understand! My mum has, thankfully, not done any of the extreme things I've read about on thi...

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Last Post: Sep 15, 2010 2:39pm
by fyllys

Pamela

Remembering People

Something i've found, is that i have a hard time remeber faces and names. i think it's a symptom of constant moving by my parents to escape their problems, but I can't remember ANYONE'S name. it's terrible. escpicailly now that I have children of my own and am ready...

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Last Post: Aug 28, 2010 12:27am
by Pamela

TISH

ADVISE IN TIME OF CRISIS

My mother is mentally ill and has been so for the past three years. It has been hell trying to get help for her everytime I try to help her she say i just like the enemies she verbally abuses which cause me to get emotional and distressed to be honest I am a nervous...

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Last Post: Jul 16, 2010 9:41pm
by TISH

Ben Peterson

Blog by Adult Child of Mentally ill Parents

Greetings--my name is Ben Peterson. Both of my parents have suffered from major mental illness. I am in my 40s and writing a blog about working through issues surrounding Adult Children of the Mentally ill. Here is a sample post from the blog. Please feel free...

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Last Post: Jul 3, 2010 11:12am
by Ben Peterson

Alicia

Any feedback is appreciated...

Hello. I was removed from the custody of my biological mother before age 2. Her refusal to get the support she needed resulted in me becoming adopted by my foster parents. Around age 18, I was curious about my biol. mother so I found out all of her diagnosis and b...

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Last Post: Apr 20, 2010 10:31pm
by Ben Peterson

Angie

I really need some advice!

Once when I was about 4 or 5 years old I begged my grandmother to let me live with her and I spilled my guts about everything my mom was doing to me. But, nothing ever happened and I was terrified that my mother would find out about it. So after that, I never told...

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Last Post: Feb 13, 2010 6:25pm
by Wolf Cub

Fed up and Hurting

Need to vent - Please tell me if I'm alone

I am a professional 29 year old woman who looks like she's got it all together from the outside, but years of dealing with my mother's mental illness and my dad's denial around starting to make me come apart at the seams. My mother attempted suicide when I was 13 an...

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Last Post: Dec 13, 2009 8:06pm
by Heather

Jill

Is anyone still using this site? I need some support

I've recently entered therapy and I'm finally getting to the bottom of some of my issues. I realize how I grew up with a mentally ill mother has influenced who I've become. I'm not sure exactly what my mother's problem is. She's diagnosed manic depressive with psych...

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Last Post: Oct 12, 2009 7:31pm
by shar