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[quote=Anonymous]I am in this situation now, with my father. I have asked my mother to call his doctor, in advance of his next appointment (already scheduled) to discuss depression + other anxiety issues he is having, and ask to have him screened in a way that is couched as a normal aging-process-screening sort of thing. It's clear to us (the kids) that he needs some kind of mood-stabilizer, but he absolutely does not see that there are any problems, much less something that he needs to talk to a doctor about. This is about the only thing we can think of to alert his doctor of the problems, without doing it in -front- of my father which would be an absolute disaster.

My mom has agreed to do that and the plan is that if she feels like she can't, then she will give me the number to call. The tricky thing is that my mom has to live with the repercussions of this, not us because we are out of state. So if the doctor screws up and says, "well your wife says X,Y,Z", then it will be awful for my mom.[/quote]

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