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Suggest Treatment For Diogenes Syndrome

Hi, may I answer your health queries right now ? Please type your query here...My mother in law may have Diogenes Syndrome. Her house has piles of rubbish and items many feet high, with tiny paths between them. He kitchen is squalid and filthy. She is rude and aggressive and has gone to extreme lengths to control her son - mainly financially - only letting him have a cheque book on the family farm 2 yrs ago (he is 46) she screams and shouts at me at any opportunity when I attempt to take him from the home (which she owns and will not relinquish) My husband says it is like abuse in the trap between her and I , what do I do?
Mon, 1 Dec 2014
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Welcome to HCM
We understand your concerns

I went through your details. I suggest you not to worry much. I do not know how you diagnosed your mother in law. Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage, and lack of shame. That is a catatonic schizophrenia stage.

Here your mother in law is acting just like so many other mother in laws. If your husband is 46, how old is your mother in law? As young and wise person you should understand your mother in law and take her to a counselor.

Psychotherapy techniques should suit your requirement. If you require more of my help in this aspect, Please post a direct question to me in this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible. I shall prescribe the needed psychotherapy techniques.

Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications.
Good luck.
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Suggest Treatment For Diogenes Syndrome

Dear Welcome to HCM We understand your concerns I went through your details. I suggest you not to worry much. I do not know how you diagnosed your mother in law. Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage, and lack of shame. That is a catatonic schizophrenia stage. Here your mother in law is acting just like so many other mother in laws. If your husband is 46, how old is your mother in law? As young and wise person you should understand your mother in law and take her to a counselor. Psychotherapy techniques should suit your requirement. If you require more of my help in this aspect, Please post a direct question to me in this URL. http://goo.gl/aYW2pR. Make sure that you include every minute details possible. I shall prescribe the needed psychotherapy techniques. Hope this answers your query. Available for further clarifications. Good luck.