How To Get Mum Sectioned for Mental Health?

You have to focus and work on yourself. As previously said the addiction of your mother is not your business nor can you do anything about it, let alone control it or force her to act in a certain way, decide something on her behalf or help her.

What you are sharing about yourself reminds me partly of myself. Wanting the sober version of a loved one, worrying about the fuckup the person causes when drinking.
Fact is, detachment, hard boundaries and distancing from the drunken drama AND your own worries is necessary. You need help, to me it sounds you are knee-deep stuck in codependency. Go to therapy, join an al-anon meeting daily, block your mother and her friends to keep away from you what is not ment for you. It’s not your responsibility, it’s not up to you to fix anything, it’s HER problem. You are effected because you love and care. That’s the horrible collateral damage addictions cause.

One thing I want to make clear: You don’t stop loving your mum when you withdraw from the situation and stop to enable, engage, call, visit, listen & answer her friends.
When you stop acting on her behaviour and your own emotions, you learn to sit with it.
When you learn to sit with it, you create space where new things can happen.

Sending calming vibes, focus on yourself and let go the things you can’t control :people_hugging:

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