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[quote=Anonymous]I hope I never foist myself on my adult children and live with them with I am elderly. It's too much.

My mom has been with us three months now. She is sucking the emotional and physical life out of me. I wake up each day with dread. I feel quilty because I should be happy she is still alive, there are so many people with parents who have passed.

But she is slowly killing me in the process. It's hell. And I resent her SO much. I didn't invite her, she just assumed she would live with us because I'm the child who stayed in the area. I knew I had to at least try it for her. But it's worse than I thought.

I can't kick her out, she would have nowhere to go. But I look at her and feel such strong dislike, frustration, grief, and sometimes even hate.

Sometimes people on here recommend caregivers get on antidepressants. Am wondering if this a route I should ask my doctor about, but it's unbearable. But would he say, "antidepressants aren't a cure for an overbearing, demanding elderly mother living with you?"
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