I probably should find a thread on an AARP or Dementia forum about this. But I'm really worried about my health after my mother passes away. I don't want to have a heart attack from the stress. Does that sound silly? I don't have a support system of people -- I don't have a social network or support group I can lean on for emotional support when the time comes and she passes away. I constantly worry about this. My siblings have their spouses, children, coworkers, and friends. And I have...myself and some friends on Facebook. My best friends live in Portugal. If I have the money I'd fly to stay with them when the time comes but who knows when that will be. I know this is weird but her incessant phone calls lately have my anxiety levels just ramped up, because I remember how cruel she was to me growing up. She was not a nice mother. She was never emotionally supportive, she constantly sabotaged or undermined me in front of people. She made my college counselor - her close friend - betray my trust and tell her everything I talked about in my sessions with the college counselor to grieve my father's death. So I had no privacy. And now she's "gone" so to speak and talks nonsense most of the time and calls me 10-30 times a day and I just let her calls go to voicemail. It's really stressful.