u/Impossible-Use3816

Is risking myself worth it

My mom has a psychotic breakdown, probably her first as far as I know, and schizophrenia runs in the family. We did not have contact in almost a year, but she reached out now.
I miss my mom terribly, but I thought for at least half a year that she just stopped loving me, and I have gotten used to that and started healing.
Now she reached out.
I want to have my mother back, but I am afraid that she won‘t be the mother I know.
I could start up contact again and try to get her help, but she wants to press charges for things which her delusions convinced her, and I won‘t teastify that my father abused me when he didn‘t, yk? And that would end the contact again.
I want to know, how long do these delusions last? And will she go back to the person I know if she gets help/medication?
I love my mother, but I don’t want to risk my mental health if she will never get better, I don’t think that I can survive thinking my mother actually hating me.
She does not trust the healtcare system or medication, getting her help will be very, very hard.

Tldr: my mom has an active psychotic breakdown and reached out. She does not like medication. Can I get my mom back or will this be her forever? I can live without my mom, I can‘t live with my mom the way she is right now.

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u/Impossible-Use3816 — 4 days ago

Hi, I need help I guess
Okay, short breakdown: I love my mother, sehe wasn‘t always great, sometimes a bit abusive in the verbal sense, but after I (24) moved out it was good, fine for years.
It started last year I guess, she started voting for the right, which was unusual because I grew up with her going to left-wing demostration all my life, so I don‘t know what happened.
Maybe it was the start or just her changing.
She moved and we had less contact, and then she broke off all contact, changed her number, moved, all of it.
I was a wreck. I did not know what I did or what was happening.
I haven‘t spoken to her in almost a year. Today, she contacted my sister to talk.
I have schizophrenia in the family, more or less. Not many got diagnosed, but from what I have heard and seen my cousin, grandfather and uncle all showed signs of some psychotic disorder.
My mother seemed to follow. She told my sister about se*ual abuse on us that didn‘t happen, about my father and grandfather.
She had some weird opinions before, like vaccines, before, but never like this.
She wants to talk to me.
I spend the whole year thinking my mother stopped loving me and I was/am so, so angry with her.
But she does love me. I want my mother back, but how do I talk to her? I think some of the things had been done to her, I want to be kind, but I am still so angry.
So just, what do I do? I want her to get help, but I am so hurt by her actions. How to I talk to her? Can I help her in any way?

Tldr: mother broke off contact, 1 year later I find out she is psychotic, I want to talk to her but am very angry.

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u/Impossible-Use3816 — 7 days ago