Hi, I really need someones advice on something really important which is my mother has lots of stress and anxiety and I found out she was talking to a social worker. I have the social workers contact information and my mother doesn't know about it. My father has problems and I know my mother's stress is mostly because of him. My mother changed the past three months in a way to do positive things which is good of course but their is one main thing she is doing that is causing her more problem for herself and others. We are Jewish and Friday's at sundown until Saturday evening is Sabbath and what she is doing is that she doesn't want to use car at all to go synagogue and she walks all the way there which is more than 1 hour walking. My mother doesnt have the energy to do that and when she gets bored at home during Sabbath she mumbles around a lot. She gets on my nerves like this to.
Thank You So Much,
Melissa
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Thanks for your reply. What ever I talk to her about she just walks away and doesn't want to listen to me. Most of my talking comes out right but by the way she is there is no way that anything can help. She is posing risk to herself and that's because she doesn't have energy to do so much walking, she is 57 years old, she is very stressed out and has anxiety and recently she even gets fast heartbeats. She does have some health problems to. The help of a professional just makes her happy but not 100% because the source of the problem is my father and I can see that my mother can't tolerate it.
She's not going in a positive direction though she is putting more stress to herself. In general nobody listens to me only in the end when they see I'm right that's when they like to say that I'm right.
I still can't figure out what to do though. I'm try to do something sooner and the sooner the better. What do you think I should do?
Melissa
March 30, 2013 - 4:13pmThis Comment
Melissa,
The purpose of a social worker is to make living easier for people and families that need the help. So, if your mom has been talking to a social worker she's taking the right steps.
As far as her needing a psychologist, this is something that you need to address with her first. You cannot have her committed just because she takes an hour long walk and mumbles at home when she gets bored-- she isn't posing a risk to herself or others but I can see how it can be concerning if this is new and erratic behavior.
Talk to her about possibly soliciting the help of a professional and see where it goes from there.
Good luck,
Rosa
March 30, 2013 - 2:14pmThis Comment