Advice needed. I posted a while ago about my 74 year old mother who has mentally deteriorated lately. She lives 4 plus hrs by car so I can only visit occasionally unfortunately. My dad lives with her. He's basically ending up being her carer at the moment. She only sleeps every other night. On the nights she doesn't sleep she becomes very agitated for the next 24 hours.
Whenever I ring her she will not have a normal conversation with me any more
Anything I say goes back to how she isn't doing very well and how she is paying some new holistic therapist for a new treatment. She is very suspicious of doctors so my dad got her to a doctor but she came off the medication as she didn't want side effects.
She seems compus mentus, but she can't talk about much other than her anxiety and insomnia so unfortunately the conversation are very one way and unrewarding. I feel guilty in not doing more.
What could this be and how can I support without totally draining myself?
I also have a brother who lives nearer but cannot drive.
Her initial bloodwork came back fine. She is on the waiting list for cbt. She is clearly unwell though. Doesn't want to really go out of do anything much. My dad is just keeping his head above water.