Re: Additional Questions Depression & LBD Lottery mom

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Dodie,

I was wondering the same thing about the long term depression and now

this LBD. My mom has been miserable her whole life and has gone

untreated. She is in serious denial. Thinks all her problems are

because of everyone else. A year and a half ago she was talking

suicide so the Dr prescribed anti-depressants. She wouldn't take

them. Now she has just been diagnosed very recently with LBD.

Prescribed Aricept which she seems to be taking but still in major

denial.

Every day we have to hear about the rotten people doing terrible

things to her. This is a theme she has complained about her whole

life. Only now the rotten people are coming in her house, stealing

her food, stealing her money, drugging her and stealing her lottery

check. Yes folks she is still on that one. If I don't agree with her

she goes balistic and says I am on everyone else's side. I am

practicing my empathy skills. " Sorry you are having these problems

Mom " .

We have longevity in our family and no one that I know of had any

form of dementia or mental illness. Seems that if those poor

neurotransmitters are not functioning properly for years there would

be a consequence. LBD? Has anyone read about a correlation?

Hang in there Dodie,

>

> Do the money issues EVER stop? She can't go to the field trip

because

> it costs 12.00 blah, blah, blah. She has money, but was very

> dependent on Dad, so can't quite seem to grasp making decisions

> herself (LBD or dependent personality) Anyway, all these

exxageratted

> pre-existing issues make me crazy. The paranoia, the need for

> approval...I was the oldest of six, and basically the mom-cleaning,

> cooking, laundry. In retrospect, my mom had suffered clinical

> depression with no treatment for years. I kind of wonder if there

is

> correlation between neurotransmitter malfunction in the brain and

the

> subsequent development of LBD. Also, we have a long standing

history

> of psych disorders, bi-polar disease, OCD, anorexia, alcoholism,

> suicide. Not all at once-over time. But I tend to wonder the

> biochemical aspects of these conditions and whether there is

> correlation. Me, I've been treated for severe depression forever

and

> function fairly well. I will take my antidepressants until they

> forcefully remove them. At one time they considered EST-seems a

bit

> rash, so I'll continue to take my morning cocktail of meds.

>