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In reply to the discussion: Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why? [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)find the right guy and live happily ever after line. She has 3 children that neither her or her husband can handle and my grandson is not the perfect copy of her father she expected him to be. This week we have gone through hell - screaming, yelling, blaming everything on the little scapegoat of the family, sleeping long hours of the day, buying food for herself even when her children do not have a lot of food, etc. She is obviously depressed and will not go for help. I suspect the helper would want to talk about such things as unreal expectations and that is the last thing she wants to do. It would not surprise me that she would do something drastic like suicide.
Years ago I went through the discovery that life was not the American Dream I had been led to believe it was so I get it but I do not have the slightest idea what to do to help. I live with them and help my grandson keep the house up and sit with the kids when she is not into it but that is all I can do.