Mum admitted to hospital after taken pills & drink (long)

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This is a on going saga in the family, but now my mum has been admitted to hospital today after taking pills, i guess paracetmol & drink? my brother told me that she is unwell due to being very dehydrated.

This is the 2nd time in about 6mths that she has taken some pills the 1st time the paramedics didn't think it was worth her being admitted and she went to the GP who put her on some anti depressants, which she took for a little while but then stop taking them because she said that they were affecting her eyesight and making her fat! I did tell her to go back to the GP and tell her about this as there are different ones around, but decided that she was fine and didn't need to take them any more.

She has suffered with depression for many many years, had a nervous breakdown nearly 20 years ago after my dad died, she was on prozac back then and she lost loads of weight and has highs & lows off and on since then, she has threatening to take pills many times also etc.

Last yr she was signed off work due to stress in the workplace,(conflict/bullying by other members of staff) so much so that she had to leave the job she'd loved doing as it would have been too stressful to go back and then my brother had to move back into the family home after his marriage broke up and relations between mum & son have been strained for along time (he has a new girlfriend who my mum doesn't approve of as she is 10yrs younger then my bro is) it recently came to a head when my mum said that his gf couldn't stay anymore as they were living there for free as he always forgot to give her any keep.

Now this as happen and i don't know what to expect, i'm currently 6mths pregnant with no 3 and don't need this as the pregnancy is stressful enough with my ongoing medical condition to deal with.

any advice, thoughts gratefully received, sorry its long i just needed to let it all out.

hopefully this latest crisis will propel her towards some decent help and support - perhaps an admission to an acute psych ward for assessment and/or treatment?

best you can do is just look after yourself and stay positive, perhaps talk to whoever does her psych assessment while she is in hospital - family background and relatives input very helpful

perhaps talk to brother about ways in which he can help reduce the stress she has been under, without blaming him obviously

hope she makes full recovery and you are able to relax as much as possible knowing she is in safe hands for the time being

Update my mum got sent to our local mental health place who spoke to her for about and hour and then sent her home telling her to go see her gp and she would be seeing someone else.

My bro & I are confused with the whole thing now from being positive that she would be getting some help now to negative in the fact she has been sent home I guess she wasn't a threat to herself and she said the right things to make them think she was ok.

What now i doubt she will go back to her gp as she says there is nothing wrong with her.

hopefully the 'someone else' will be a community psychiatric nurse or similar, visiting her at home and keeping an eye on her

or could be home treatment team? do you have the number of the mental health centre she went to, might be handy in case you need to contact them on her behalf

glad she is at least medically fit to be home, sorry was not the outcome you hoped for

hope you are ok

Thank you for the replies.

I check on the website for the local mental health centre and it does say that they will try and deal with people in their community rather than admitting them.

I will be seeing her on saturday hopefully and i have to see what happens then and what she tells me.

Thanks once again

good luck, it so good that she has your support although hope it stays within what you can comfortably manage, given everything else on your plate

really hope the professionals come through for her this time