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AuburnSunshine · Dec 18, 2009, 10:22 AM

Life became so difficult...money running out, she wouldn't give me any, physically, verbally and emotionally abusing me on a daily basis...that I tried to "check out" last year. I was "saved" (woohoo, lucky me) but while I was in a drug induced coma in Intensive Care for a month she got the doctor to write a note...on a prescription pad!!!...that I was mentally ill and she was granted guardianship of me.

As my guardian she has taken everything of mine...said she had thrown out or given away at least 3/4 of all my possessions. I'm not allowed to drive my car (she drives it!); she stopped paying the mortgage on my condo so it's in foreclosure with my beautiful furniture still in it; the few things she kept are in a storage unit but she won't allow me to go through it.

I just found out two days that my condo has been in foreclosure since last April but she has been renting it for $1,100 a month. I haven't seen a penny of that money...each month I struggle with $143 from the state to pay for a private physician and medications because I have not yet qualified for SSI and Medicaid. She gives me nothing to help with these costs.

Last month I had a horrible sinus infection and no money to see a doctor. She said she would give me some money if I gave her some of my pills...that's been going on for years. However, my caregiver knew the situation and watched the "transaction." I gave her three of my Klonipin and she gave me $100...she would have given me more had I given her my Lortabs but I need them too much.

As I mentioned, I'm living in a group home now. It's that or the streets...she doesn't care and she has said so.

So what's wrong with her? At the age of 14 she was diagnosed as bipolar but even I knew that was incorrect. The only other diagnosis has been Borderline PD and Narcissistic PD but that came from my psychiatrist when he demanded that she be included in several sessions.

I'm classified as mentally ill because I seriously tried to kill myself. She's seeing a therapist "about how to deal with me" but she's so manipulative and narcissistic that I doubt her therapist thinks anything is wrong with her. Alas, poor child, she's struggling with dealing with a mentally ill parent and that takes more energy than she has.

She's being arraigned this morning for hitting me with the car but she doesn't know it. Apparently they sent her summons to the wrong address. When I tried to tell her that she needed to be here for this court date, she looked at me and said I was delusional...that I was making it up in my head...oh poor mother, you're so mentally ill. You jumped in front of my car trying to kill yourself again.

After a pause, however, she turned to me and said "And if I am in trouble because of that I WILL kill you."

It's just another merry day of ho, ho, ho ~

Melanie