My parents just moved to Asheboro and bought a new car.

[DebJ]

17. Actually one day my sister said my mother needed medication

because Mom is always talking about politics and religion and people in the news that she doesn't even know... this was just
after a big storm where an infant had died. To my NC sister, this is a sign of insanity or severe depression. I told her no, it is a different world view, where you care about other people. Mom has always been that way, and i am too. But to Cheryl, caring about strangers is a sign of mental illness. Seriously. That is exactly what she said.

She did take Mom to a doctor within her first week down there and got a prescription for an antidepressant. Mom took it a few times then refused, and we see no need for her to take that crap. But it would have made the guardianship request more feasible, you know? An anti-depressant is not going to cure the alternate isolation and badgering that my sister imposes upon my mother. I told Cheryl that, phrasing it more diplomatically. She told me that she studied psychology in nursing school and already knew everything she could ever need to know, and didn't want to hear anything from anyone about anything. She was a nurse for about 2 years 33 years ago, then quit when she became a JW. The little that we did talk, she was quoting things like from a nursing home manual (she worked at one for about 18 months). I said Cheryl, Mom doesn't need you to relate to her like a nurse. She needs you to relate to you like her DAUGHTER.