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Hi Rainbowzz
I suspect your mother would be very humiliated to have her personal problems aired on TV for entertainment purposes. I don't see how it could possibly improve your relationship with her. If she has brain damage due to the meningitis, I don't think it's possible to "bully" her into behaving the way you would like her to behave.
I grew up having a depressed, suicidal and abusive mother too. We tried everything to fix her, but nothing worked. Even after she was properly diagnosed as having familial amyloidosis, her behavior never changed. She became worse when the dementia began to appear.
My mother never held my son or cared for him physically either, though I know she desperately wanted to be a "real" grandmother to him. Instead, we had to be the ones who cared for her. She was ungrateful, mean and bitter until the day she died in 1991.
I was diagnosed with familial amyloidosis in 1996. I vowed to myself I would NOT become like my mother, but fate had other plans. My son is now 25. I love him with all my heart and desperately want to be a "normal" mother, but it's just not possible. The harder I try, the worse it gets.
Instead of making this a TV episode, would it be possible for the two of you to attend private counseling together with a real doctor or professional counselor?
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