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Feel confused and helpless

Posted by Daughter trying to help on September 29, 2005 at 18:12:26:

I don't know if this is a good place to start, but I need help with this situation. I have read a few of the posts here in regard to people being dependent on Ambien. My loved one, which I'm sure you have figured it out by my ID name, is my mother. I have no idea how she was able to get Ambien, but she did. I honestly haven't spoken to her about her visiting a doctor on anything like that...but that is beside the point. She is very dependent on this drug...she will go straight from work to her house and take Ambien and then go to sleep. That is all she does. She doesn't have a hunger for life, she doesn't visit her grandchildren, she doesn't enjoy doing the things she used to, and she has now become a shell of what she used to be.

I know that it is not only the Ambien affecting her, but her depression as well. A few years ago I made an appointment for her to see a Therapist...she was reluctant, but she did go. The therapist asked her if she would like to be on a medication that had just come out and she apparently said 'yes'. She started having MORE suicidal tendencies, she alredy had them to begin with, but the drugs just made it worse. Now she won't see a therapist, and she blames me for her trying to commit suicide. I know that it is not my fault she decided to think that way, and the therapy would have worked if she wouldn't have just gone one time.

Now she is just sleeping her life away with Ambien. She is also on Clonazepam, which she took from someone she knows. My fiance wants to do an Intervention, but she's my mother and I don't know how to start or what steps to take. Please, any information that you think might be useful for me, doesn't matter how small it seems to you, it might mean saving my mother's life.

I know I have lots of options, I guess, I'm just afraid of her response. If it's an intervention she will take it as a betrayal...aarrgghh! I am lost...I don't know what to do. Any advice would be wonderful...Thank you for taking the time to read this.

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