It's so hard for parents to accept and deal with problems like this in their children. Parents like that are part of the problem. Maybe they do mean well, and think that if they stick their heads in the sand it will all go away, but they are making a big mistake. Does her mother think that someone who has serious problems like this and isn't being treated for them is more trustworthy than someone who is working on the problems and trying to get better? What if she had, say, diabetes or something. Would she be less trustworthy if she went to a doctor? That's a control tactic on the part of the mother, whether the mother knows it or not.

<font color=green>"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible" Carl Jung</font color=green>