This has gone way past a celebration of harvest and appreciation.

With me only hearing updates from my sisters and now my aunt, the situation has now morphed into mom's financial descent to hell.

I still don't know what's happened to the cookies or what will happen on Thanksgiving day. I'm thinking it is best to get out of the house altogether.

Mom and I are not calling each other and the whole family agrees staying away is best. This is really scary stuff. Either she will handle getting her life on a new track or she will really work herself up into a heart attack. Worse yet, one of her friends actually committed suicide a few years ago.

I just started taking an anti-depressant and am pretty traumatized. I am tempted to get in there and help my parents, but I don't think I can. She's out of control. The thing that is so sad about it is it didn't have to be like this. I could have helped her, if she would only listen and be reasonable.