I am a teenager who has just recently moved away from home and have a question to ask all of the psychology buffs here on Yahoo answers.
When I was born, my mother wanted very little to do with me. Apparently, before I was born, she was a very active and energetic [and happy] woman who spent a lot of time with my sister and was absolutely beautiful. After I was born, however, she began to lock herself in her room all day and my sister had to take care of me.
That behavior soon progressed to violence. She started drinking, and she would throw things and incite my father to the point that he was disgusted to be around her, and then she would make up lies that he had hurt her when he never even touched her. As I got older, I realized that not only did she want us to believe her lies, she actually believed whole heartedly in them herself. They were fact to her. At some point, she had gone to a psychiatrist who started prescribing her Xanax and a doctor who prescribes her Lortabs, both which she takes at least seven times her appropriate dosage even to this day.
When my father passed away, all the anger that she had towards him turned towards me, and she would frequently scream and call me names, scratch me, do wierd things like take my door off its hinges and just verbally abuse me constantly. Pretty much the same thing she did to my dad. She has gotten to the point that she tells lies constantly, she can't follow a track of conversation, and she's *always* the victim. Recently she's also been given disability, and she constantly waves that in my face and says that she's too weak to do this and that. And she's not.
My question is : can post partum psychosis last this long? are these the symptoms? Originally all the anger was focused on my dad, but it did start happening when I was born. But now she just seems crazy (And amazingly unintelligent)? What sort of mental illness does this sound like to you? I know it is a form of illness, because she isn't just a bad mother, she's *disturbed*, she doesn't understand things like other people do, it's like she's in her own little world where she's always right and always the one who is being hurt when it's clear that she's the one causing the grief.
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