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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A therapist encouraged me to become estranged from my mom and blame her for all my problems. I recognize her failures and mistakes but also know she tried her best at the hard job of raising three kids in a country far away from her home that she didn’t want to live in.

I have a 23 yo who has been struggling recently with mental health issues. She is seeing a therapist and I predict she will start directing blame at me soon. If that happens I will be devastated but my main concern is her well being and happiness. Hopefully she will come back.[/quote]

I am 53 with a 22 yo dd with her own mental health problems. I have been dealing with this. She disparages me to anyone who will listen — they tell me some of the wild shit she has said, a lot of it invented. Her 20 you sister, who was raised alongside of her, says she thinks part of her illness is believing these delusions and fantasies.

It’s really very painful. She also doesn’t seem to grasp that when she says these horrible things to others about her parents, it reflects poorly on her. These people know we’re good, if imperfect, parents.

Not sure how it will end. She will be “off the payroll” soon — graduated with no student loan debt courtesy of me. Maybe when the allowance stops, I will be cut off. Who knows. [/quote]

This may be a beginning of a more severe mental illness was.  I know a few people that told some stories in their 20s (usually about how they were slighted by this person and that person) that sounded like they could be true, and were quite believable except a few minor things didn’t check out.  It all went downhill later, the stories got progressively more wild, and SSDI followed.  [/quote]

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