Family help: My mother is on meth, and has been for years, it’s tearing the family apart. - Help.com

I would recommend her to see more therapists and more professionals, whether they be traditional western medics or eastern philosophical healers. The more people she confers with, the more the old adage holds true “50,000 Elvis fans can’t be wrong,” except we are talking about medicinal science and not “Elvis”. Overall, it seems like a case of extreme paranoia.
Sounds exactly like the movie “Bug” (which I thought was a terrible waste of time…at least in the cinematic form). But I digress.

but how do i make her see these people. she thinks all doctors are out to discredit her. and the only reason she’s seeing a therapist now is because while at work one day she freaked out cause she thought her fellow employees were poisoning her food when she wasn’t looking. so the state said she had to see one. but she makes up all these reason why she shouldn’t take the pills the therapist gives her. “they make me fat, these ones make me too sleepy, these ones make me shake.” if my sister and i mention anything about seeing a different one she screams at us saying how she’s not crazy and that “they” are doing this. we don’t know how to help, cause the mental health place around here will only keep her a max of two weeks then send her home with a list of things she SHOULD do to stay normal, but she doesn’t HAVE to do them. and she’s violent. but jail wont help either. they have no grounds to keep her. i feel lost.

Pills, Jail, Therapy, etc. are not going to help her if she doesn’t want to help herself. There are plenty of non-medicinal (holistic, exercise, and diet) and medicial methods that could work, but only if she is willing to accept them. If she is unwilling to accept change for her own improvement, then it makes everything more difficult. You have to get her to realize that changing herself for the better is the best thing for everyone involved, including herself. I’m guessing that guilt trips and threats are already out of the question. Maybe its possible to get her to change her position in life and get her to do something she reall enjoys doing from day to day. Sometimes self-perception is everything. Get her doing something she likes, and the rest will follow.

People who take drugs of any kind already have every excuse ready to get what they want. I had a son who was on drugs for years and is now finally clean and sobber. It was for, both of us, the most horrible times of our lives. He was trying to live as an addict and had to LIE and cheat every where to get what he wanted. He was ugly and I DID NOT LIKE HIM at all. It is 6 years sober and I can almost look directly into his face now. THe only way to stop this is with professional help. No amount of understanding or doing on your part will help. They have to help themselves and get help. You have to get tough and hard. It works…..I do like my son now and in time I will learn to trust him again. His best friend in his drug life died the day before X-mas last year.

from all of the drugs that she uses… she is killing her brain cells… i know.. we have all learned this in grade school.. however.. it is showing in your mom.. she is losing it..and with her continuing on the road that she has been on… it is going to lead her to do things unimaginable.. she needs to get help now.. before its too late for her.. or even for you and your sister… she needs to be taken and evaluated through a mental ward.. even by this.. it will give her the time needed to completely aleveate all of the bad drugs to even see if she is mentally stable to stand on her own.. please seek help before it is too late.. great big HUGS..

i feel for you,but you will have to brave for her,if you contact the court system,file a petition with your sister,,,its called the marchman act.this is in place to force her to get help,she will be evaluated and sent to rehab,if she does not go voluntarily,,they will pick her up and take her,,she will hate you.if she
recoversa she will owe you her life,sorry to hear you have to be the parent,but it
the hand you were dealt,,make the most of it.be strong as your in our prayers.

sadly my sister wants nothing to do with it, she’s the older one and she just wants to completely ingore it so i’ve been on my own with this, ever since i was 13. but luckily i have a loving husband who will support me no matter what. i just don’t know if my word would be enough to do something, cause if i try something and fail, she has the potential to come after me. the whole reason i’m reaching out now is because i’m pregnant and i fear for my unborn son. i don’t know who to contact. i don’t know where to start. today she called the city saying that someone coated the outside of her house with lead. i need to do something NOW but i honestly don’t know where to start.

have you tried to call your local mental health center?? obviously.. there are tons of things showing that she is not stable.. including the lead thing..go there and get a signed statement showing that this was done… and all the other places in which she has called… ect… get things in writing… also.. maybe contact her theropist.. let her know what is going on.. demand that she have her evaluated… and if she refuses.. tell her that her job is on the line when something serious happens and for allowing it… for not doing her job right…

update. i called the mental health place, they said to call the cops, i call the cops they say she has to DO something before they can do anything. my mom sends a will stating the my sister and i get nothing, and now she says that i’m a witch and that i’m casting spells on her and that i’m getting my witch stuff on her property and that my unborn child is a warlock.

my mother stopped by while my husband and i were out and told my sister that she went to the local grocery stores with pictures of us and told them we were thiefs and that we shop lift there. so my sister told her to get off the drugs and my mother kicked the door open and tried to force her way in. my sister told my husband and myself about it when we got home and we tried to get her to call the cops but she wouldn’t, said she didn’t want to deal with it. so we called the cops and they said since we weren’t there and since my sister didn’t want to make a claim that there was, AGAIN, nothing we could do.

then my mother calls asking for cooking supplies then goes off about how she can’t use them cause they’ll have bodily fluid on them from my witch craft and spell casting.

i’m not sure what to do about this, and i have no idea what the she’s talking about with the witch craft stuff. i mean i don’t even have a religion really. i’ve known people who call themselves wican and they’ve explained to me that its all about energy and loving the earth. so i have no idea what my mother is talking about of what i should do cause no one will seem to help.

so since your mother wont back down and no one will help you… if she believes that you are a witch… pretend to be one… tell her that if she dont back down you willput a spell on her.. and make up stuff… tell her that if she dont leave you alone.. then this or that will happen… maybe she believes it to the point in which she will believe you.. im sorry that no one will help you… maybe you should really try to go above everyones head.. go to their supervisors.. go to the papers.. get this story out of how no one will help you..