They made my mom’s life miserable and therefore it affected our whole family.
I was engaged not too many years ago to a woman who had lost a child when she was young, and every year around his birthday she would go through a few weeks of mourning for him. Her place of work had comprehensive health and free psych counseling, and she decided to take advantage of it. Those people took a healthy, happy woman and diagnosed her with a host of psychiatric ailments, and hooked her on a couple psychoactive prescriptions that totally changed her personality. We were never married. They took an intelligent independent woman and turned her into an erratic dependent addict who wouldn't take a trip to the grocery store without her medications.
Having a loved one die is one kind of loss, having someone just disappear and be replaced by a totally different person...there's no way to prepare for it.
Even in Elder Care, I feel way to many Drugs are prescribed.
Yet, it seems there is no choice when the Courts side with the EXPERTS and parents are left to the mercy of the Pros., on what happens to their loved one. Sad world.