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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: Also, yes, I wonder if she's depressed. She takes Tylenol PM every night so she can sleep. I think she has PTSD from finding my FIL dead in the bed. Tonight DH and I talked about the fact that she probably needs counseling.[/quote]

I can tell you she’ll find a myriad reasons not to go to counseling/take antidepressants. I mean, don’t have high hopes for all this. [/quote]

NP here. I also think this will happen. My own mom is 78 and recently widowed. I have been trying to get her to take the counseling 'free' offered by the hospice. My dc and I did! She refuses. She doesn't want to do much, although I do try to get her out regularly (I see her daily). I'm 100% certain my dad would not have wanted her to hole up in the house the rest of her life.

I also think OP is getting treated a bit harshly here. She has her own mother to consider, and presumably kids and a job. It's not realistic to expect her to have to give up half of her family's day off to go sit with someone who won't leave the house. I get that SIL is burned out-but SIL needs to consider that maybe she needs to step back for her own health/sanity. If the MIL is safe and healthy, then she can sit in her house if that's all she wants to do.[/quote]

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