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P.S. Her age is not a factor.
What medicine is she taking for her OCPD and depression? Is she being seen on a regular basis by a competent psychiatrist who is kept informed about how her medications are doing? Is she seeing a therapist?
Has the doctor been willing to talk with you to share what you need to know? Is there a Mental Health Association in your county and a NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, in your county or state? If so they will have some information to help you. Anytime a family member is in a close relationship like you are with another family who has a personality disorder, it is strongly adviced that a person such as yourself have a therapist to help you survive and have some tools to deal with the challenges of all this.
No Mom has Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder which is quite a different thing than COPD. Your comment about your father being fragile, applies to mom too. As it stands she uses oxygen around the clock, she tires easily and sleeps a lot. We have hopes for her becoming less symptomatic as far as CHF goes, but the real problem is the OCPD and the associated depression that goes with it. If she was not afflicted by OCPD and depression, I think she would adjust to the constraints of CHF without much trouble...but that is wishing for something that just isnt so. Anyway, I appreciate your remarks. I wish you luck with your father.
Tom
He's very fragile and can get sick really easily so our main goal is to make sure his lungs are as healthy as possible. He does breathing exercises, takes his meds and on occasion he needs prednisone to open up his airways....