Living Around the Blues

Great stuff.

I wish that there was more literature like this when I was dealing with my mentally ill mother. It would have prepared me for a lifetime of role reversal. Thank you for sharing this with others who have gone through this difficult life change. I hope to find more research on this topic, which I have always felt was under evaluated.

I personally had to separate myself from my mom because she insisted on having a love hate relationship with me. I am very confident with this decision, but feel that it is tragic that it had to happen.

I appreciate so much each opportunity to learn from others experiences with this. I now do not feel so isolated in how I felt as a child- becoming my mother's therapist, cook, housekeeper, and scapegoat when she needed to manipulate any situation where I sought help for us as a family. Good luck to all of us living with this.