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fatboyfat
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Hello everyone, this is my first post and I'm looking for advice/guidance in respect of my Mother in Law.
She was admitted to hospital in May last year with what we were told was a severe nervous breakdown, she is 68 years old and not really had any symptoms in the past.
This was a massive shock for all of the family as overnight she became a different person.
The next few weeks were very difficult and included a suicide attempt. Various forms of treatment were administered but they settled on lithium.
After a few months she was slightly better and started having day visits at home, so everything seemed rosy but it turned out that on these day visits she was building a stash of paracetamols and she took an overdose when she was back on the ward. She was obviously admitted to A and E and recovered but was then sectioned and not allowed home visits.
She has just had 8 sessions of E.C.T. and again seemed to progressing really quickly and has last week just been allowed home visits again.
Today she was found at home trying to hide a knife in her things before she went back on the ward so we seem to be back to square one.
We don't know what to do, she remarried 2 years ago so her new husband is looking after her well, visiting her everyday but also making all of the decisions and liasing with the doctors etc, they won't really tell us anything without her permission. She has refused counselling and we don't know how to help her.
We just want her home again, (she's been in the mental health unit since last May), we want her well and back to being a mum and grandma, we miss her how she was.
Will she ever be the same again I wonder?
Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.
She was admitted to hospital in May last year with what we were told was a severe nervous breakdown, she is 68 years old and not really had any symptoms in the past.
This was a massive shock for all of the family as overnight she became a different person.
The next few weeks were very difficult and included a suicide attempt. Various forms of treatment were administered but they settled on lithium.
After a few months she was slightly better and started having day visits at home, so everything seemed rosy but it turned out that on these day visits she was building a stash of paracetamols and she took an overdose when she was back on the ward. She was obviously admitted to A and E and recovered but was then sectioned and not allowed home visits.
She has just had 8 sessions of E.C.T. and again seemed to progressing really quickly and has last week just been allowed home visits again.
Today she was found at home trying to hide a knife in her things before she went back on the ward so we seem to be back to square one.
We don't know what to do, she remarried 2 years ago so her new husband is looking after her well, visiting her everyday but also making all of the decisions and liasing with the doctors etc, they won't really tell us anything without her permission. She has refused counselling and we don't know how to help her.
We just want her home again, (she's been in the mental health unit since last May), we want her well and back to being a mum and grandma, we miss her how she was.
Will she ever be the same again I wonder?
Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated.
