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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ash_3" data-source="post: 1706557" data-attributes="member: 49975">My sisters and I had an intervention for my mother about her opioid use disorder. It went better than expected, she still is in a crazy amount of denial, but she did say she would consider going to rehab if she could speak to her therapist first. It seems like a reasonable request but our mother is a pathological liar and has used the "I want to speak to my therapist" excuse for a very long time. I just don't trust her word. Anyway after a fight with my mother the other night and a few more discussions she has said that she is going to go to rehab but wants to look into places first that deal with chronic pain and addiction. I called my sisters to tell them the good news, however I am still skeptical, and asked them if we could meet with our mother tomorrow to do the research with her and help her find a rehab facility. I'm trying to strike while the iron is hot. After asking my older sister if she could do it tomorrow she flat out said no, she has a midterm to take and she can't do it tomorrow. I completely understand that school is important but I think getting our mother into rehab has more weight especially when her professors have even told her that family comes first and assignments/tests can be figured out later. I just think she is being really selfish and I want to slap some sense of reality into her. It makes me so incredibly frustrated. Especially when I'm currently still living with my mother and have been exhausting myself all week to try to find somewhere to live. I don't have time for the uncertainty, or the yes or no game my mother is playing because it is jeopardizing my ability to save myself, my livelihood is literally hanging on the line and all I want is some cooperation from my siblings. Is that really too much to ask?</blockquote>

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