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In reply to the discussion: A GOP state lawmaker who fled Texas on a private jet said he did so for his family after his house [View all]Ilsa
(61,675 posts)my dosage of an antidepressant. My thoughts have definitely been darker over the last four months.
For example, I was relieved and happy about the Biden/Harris win, but I couldn't really feel it. On Thanksgiving, I got so aggravated with my MIL (who was verbally abusing me) that I told my husband I'd had enough of her, and while I wanted to call her a bitch, I stopped and told him, "Your mother is not a nice person." He responded, "I know. She's always been unstable. The neighbors had to call the cops on her when I was in 5th grade. I was mortified." She has called the cops on him three times over the last year, including once at 1:30am.
We'll be putting her into a Memory Care Center as soon as we can get it worked out, but she threw out all of her vital documents, so we are having to get certified copies of everything.
I'm really glad that the time I spent in nursing with elderly patients did not include dementia patients. I would have resigned my license. I'm not cut out for it.