Look, anyone can fall into a horrible situation and I am never one to say never…..but in  the scenario regarding my mother, she has been an amazing contributor to society. She has been burnt out, overwhelmed, freaked out……but she kept on plugging away to give me the best life possible and to teach me that anything I want to accomplish is mine for the taking. She taught me to never blame other people for what is happening in a negative way in my world, but to take my own life by the horns and move forward in a positive way.

My mother worked at minimum 70 hours a week and always made time for me. She used to say, “It’s quality, not quantity.”  My mother is an author, of more than several books. She didn’t go to school for this, she had an idea, a passion and she found a way to be one of the very few people who got a book published on their first attempt.

With that said, she has paid her debt to society. She also has paid the debt to be in what is meant to be a professional enviroment. She doesn’t deserve to be overmedicated such that she is not a “bother” to the staff, she shouldn’t have to have her face pressed to the glass of the ward window wanting and needing so much to get outside breathe some fresh air, to have conversations with inteligent people, to have herself elevated by the facility back to a place of normalcy for her. I know that she will never be the person that I have always known, but my MUM is in there and I am so afraid that they are breaking her spirit and pushing her to regress within herself.

If this was up to my mother, she would be much more responsive and interactive with her care to get herself back on the right track…..but they have already counted her out. Count out the people who blame everyone else for their problems, who take others down with them, who don’t do anything in the world but breathe in the air around them.