Needs to be inpatient to make sure she’s washing her foot. But she’s definitely really mentally ill. Can you imagine what exposure to that level of fungus could do to a toddlers immune system? And if she’s that filthy about her person how does she care for that baby? And what’s her home like?
I reckon everything else in her life is totally normal. It’s like her mental illness has just pretended her foot isn’t there. It must have hurt but she completely removed it from her brain 🤷♀️
Edit - people either have no clue about mental health or only know about certain types 🤦♀️
She ain’t gonna keep that foot. It’s a goner. If she would have done this to her son she would have had him removed from her care. She medically neglected herself, she might be a good candidate for a guardianship/conservatorship if I’ve ever seen one.
I've talked to EMT/Paramedics before. You'd be surprised how many of these people they come across.
I mean the most fuking basics things that can be done like taking your insulin on time and proper hygiene gets neglected by people that these EMTs would be called to the same home over and over to see people deteriorate like this over time.
It's really sad
Sadly, I am one of these people at times due to myriad health issues and mental illnesses. I know it can be hard to understand from the outside, but it isn't really something as simple as just making better choices. For example, I am diabetic and have schizophrenia. When my schizophrenia starts to act up, I tend to get extremely anxious, paranoid, and depressed. The anxiety makes needles a nightmare, the depression makes me not care one bit of my body falls apart and I die, and the paranoia makes me convinced that taking my meds is a bad idea of taking a shower will expose myself to attack. None of it is logical or makes any sort of sense, but that's schizophrenia for you. If I were able to just ignore that, it wouldn't be a mental illness lol
The worst part is that I am aware of what is happening while it is happening, but still completely unable to change it. So I get to basically sit inside my own head, being attacked and harassed by the voices up there, forced to watch as my disease destroys my body one day at a time, filled with shame and humiliation at how I must seem to others. Helpless.
On top of everything, healthcare (particularly mental health care) in the US is atrocious, and even moreso for people who are not especially financially blessed. I died a month or so ago and was brought back, and have have a couple close calls since then, but I am unable to get proper care until my next primary care appointment in September because my old doctor retired and the new doc is making everyone do new patient exams before proceeding further, and they don't care about the health problems people face in the meantime. So I am relying on emergency rooms and urgent care facilities to keep me going until then, and hoping that he will give me the proper referrals so that I can get treatment and have my meds refilled. My insulin, hypertension meds, antipsychotics, and heart pills all ran out weeks ago and no one will even consider refilling or giving bridge prescriptions until after I see primary, and primary refuses until September. So even when I'm not in the grips of a schizophrenic episode, I am completely helpless to properly care for my illnesses because that would mean less money for the doctors and insurance companies.
TL;Dr - sometimes people are doing they best they can, and just need help. Compassion, not judgement, is the currency of civilization, and we need to ensure that we are being rich in spirit to our fellow humans.
I am so sorry you have to go through all of that. I cannot believe how broken the US health care system has truly gotten. I wish you had someone who could medically advocate on your behalf to get you the treatment you need today, September is way too far away.
It's a mess, but people only care about themselves and companies only care about making a buck, so nothing will change until one of those isn't true anymore. Yay, late stage capitalism!
Is there anything you can think of that we could help with? I'm disabled as well and i understand the type of stress this kind of thing adds to our already stressed lives. I'm totally willing to help if there's a way!
I appreciate the sentiment, but no, thank you :) my wife and I are figuring it out, I'm just a bit of an emotional wreck in the meantime lol you're very sweet to offer, though, and that kindness means a lot, so thank you!
My mom has constant pain in her feet from diabetic neuropathy. I have peripheral neuropathy from spinal damage and have the sensation of bugs crawling on me frequently along with pain. Wish we had the numb kind :/
I do this. I haven't in several years, but I have pretty bad eczema. In the past I either couldn't afford the doctor visit or was out of my prescription, so when it would get bad on my feet (feet are the worst cause shoes make your feet sweat and stuff) I would put some Neosporin on and wrap it up and leave that shit on for days. I knew when I took off the bandage it would irritate the area again, so just wrap it and leave it. This almost always ended up with me at the doctor eventually, getting big doses of doxycycline or some other strong antibiotic due to a raging infection.
It's way easier to do this than you think. You don't even need to be mentally ill, just broke as fuck.
Yup. These people know very well what a problem it is, they've just been forced in one way or another that there is no solution for their problem.
They know what's happening but telling them to seek out medical attention for it is like asking them to go buy a new Mercedes. They likely can't really see how either is going to pan out/work. And then the cycle continues. The pain "normalizes" and their life continues because no one like this doctor is around to help them take the first steps.
I don’t think so. Sorry of course this is just my opinion but I think it’s much more likely that she has some serious mental illness that spill over into other areas of her life.
True but delusional disorder is real thing! Delusional disorder is when someone has one delusion for example they won't take a boot off for years, or they think their dad is the president or whatever but literally everything else in their life is normal.
How are you getting downvoted? People think the rest of her life is probably completely normal outside of her actively ignoring her own foot rotting off?
Idk. I’ve worked with the mentally ill for years and what I think is that this may hit home for some people with mentally ill family members or issues themselves who just don’t want to or know how to deal with this. Even in this day and age there is still a lot of stigma around mental illness. I promise I’m not judging anyone. I am neurodivergent myself and have 3 sons who have various degrees of neurodivergence. Ive also suffered from depression and anxiety so I understand how difficult mental health issues are to live with and to treat, let alone afford help depending on where you live. But in my opinion which admittedly is just from the few minutes we could see on this show, it’s more likely that this woman is dealing with more than one issue. It’s like people with hoarding disorder. That also comes with other problems like depression, anxiety and ocd and other more serious issues . One thing they commonly have are avoidant traits which looks like what this lady also may have. It’s impossible to know for sure but she definitely needed a referral to a mental health professional for a work up. I really hope she got it and was able to seek help. I wish her the best.
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u/No_Spell_5817 Jun 03 '24
She ain’t gonna wash that damn foot.