My mum is 65. Has chronic health conditions and has done for 15 years.
She is sadly a classic narcissist. Our relationship has never been good due to some pretty shocking treatment towards me throughout my life.
At this stage she is alone in a sheltered housing flat. Has lost all her friends bar a few acquaintances due to her treatment of them. All other family have walked away I am literally all she has.
She refused to move to where I live when my father died a few years ago. She moved to shelter accommodation at start of this year but hates it and everyone in it.
With corona I have not seen her in 7 weeks as she lives an hour away from me. She is in hospital for treatment 3 times per week and has help where she lives.
Every pain she gets is “the worst pain she has ever had”. In the last few weeks alone she has told me she is having a hand cut off, has cancer and god knows how many other things none of which are true.
The doctor today wouldn’t give her medication for a pain she had, this resulted in texts to me saying she was going to slit her wrists tomorrow. This is about the 5th time I had had such a text.
My own mental health is at breaking point. Everything I have tried to do to help her has been rejected and then she complains nobody does anything for her.
I just can’t cope with it anymore and feel horribly guilty all the time. What has brought it home to me is I must be the only person who does not want lockdown to end as it means I have to be at her beck and call again. I sound awful I know but it’s killing me inside I am utterly broken and exhausted.
What do I do