Just remembered a time about 18 months ago when my mother lost her mind (actually). She was deeply addicted to stimulants, but had been dependent on her opioid medication for a couple decades. She decided to quit everything cold turkey, and to cover that base now, it was a terrible idea, but it turned out she didn't have stimulant psychosis, but acute withdrawal from the opioids had done it. She heard voices until they resumed those specifically, after a month or two of utter insanity.
I remembered a moment when she was at my house downstairs (I sleep upstairs): She screamed for ten seconds and threw a remote at the television, breaking it, and woke me up. I threw some clothes on and went down to see what was going on, and told her she couldn't destroy my house (I stressed the last two words, since I said that often enough when she was lucid that it seemed like firm ground). She was still pissy and stammered about how something was wrong with the TV, she was the new sheriff in town, and she was going to shoot everyone, and I just looked in her eyes and told her, "You're going to shoot me, your son, and the rest of your family, that you love? Bullshit."
She stopped there and said, "No, of course not," and I told her she needed to get some sleep, so I drove her back up to her house.
I remember her curling up in her recliner as I wished her well, knowing it probably wouldn't last long, but seeing a full view of someone whom I used to know completely detached from reality, whom I was fully convinced (this was a few weeks into it) was never coming back.

cool story bro, so how much you inheriting and when are we gunna spend it all

>>82137812
She's back to the normal side, so she'll have to spend her wealth (like most people here) to make it out of middle age alive. At least I won't have an excuse to stress constantly (children) like she has.
The only inheritance you and I get are time, and we're spending it right now how we want.

>>82137792 (OP)
>seeing a full view of someone whom I used to know completely detached from reality, whom I was fully convinced (this was a few weeks into it) was never coming back.
this one fucking hurts man, my mom's a recovered addict as well and it's clear her brain got irreversibly fucked up as a result

>>82138207
Even the most egregious neural wounds have small recoveries, which is good for them; you have to remember it for everyone else, because I bet she can't. Even if she does, what would WE do knowing we fucked up so badly?