I just ripped into my sister over my workload in caring for my mother. My mother saw it and made me apologize. They want me to get psyche help for myself. Caring for my mother is almost 24/7 365. My sister comes to visit and then leaves and she brigs her husband and son. The inability to make changes in this arrangement has left my depressed and angry. I can't leave and I can't move on. Yes I did go ballistic on my sister. But this feels like the twilight zone.
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Take charge of your moms care and estate. Take charge and tell your siblings what to do. Take charge. Don't ask, tell.
Your mother would do either of 2 things if you weren't around (God forbid): she would pay for in home care givers or she would move into Assisted Living immediately. Instead, she's treating you like a slave and your sister like a queen, demanding you apologize to her for expressing frustration over being justifiably burned out. Stop allowing your mother to take such terrible advantage of you and put your foot down right away before you become a statistic! And tell your sister you'll apologize when SHE'S walked in YOUR shoes for a month. Until then, she should be grateful you even speak to her at all.
Wishing you the best of luck moving forward with your own life now, you deserve to.
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Now, in most caregiving situations involving elderly parents and adult children, all of the responsibility and the day to day, hands-on 'dirty work' gets dumped on just one. It's unusual for all the siblings to help out.
You're not alone in that.
Next, you are an adult. No one can make you apologize and you should have never allowed your mother to reduce you like that. It doesn't matter if you live in her house. It doesn't matter if she pays you to be her caregiver.
No one (even kids) should have to apologize if they aren't sorry and if they didn't do anything to be sorry for.
It's sounds to me like your sister who does nothing to help with the care needs had a telling off coming. Don't apologize again.
Your other option would be appropriate placement for mom. IL, AL, or MC.
You do not say what type of care mom needs or her medical problems so it is difficult to say what placement would be safest