How Do I Get My Mom To Help Herself?

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🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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How Do I Get My Mom To Help Herself? : Stephanie’s mom is overweight and suffering from diabetes. She gambles and smokes and she’s perfectly happy not changing her bad ways. - Dr. Laura: "Because I WANNA'!!!" | Become a Dr. Laura Family Member: https://www.drlaura.com/ See https://family.drlaura.com/pg/jsp/help/general/privacypolicy.jsp for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this edition of the Call of the Day.
0:03.8	Be sure to listen to my program Monday through Friday now heard on Sirius XM Triumph 2011.
0:09.9	Okay mom and Stephanie, welcome to the program. What can I do for you?
0:14.7	I was calling to get your advice to see how I can help my mother because she seems to be unwilling to help herself.
0:24.0	I help herself about what finished this ends.
0:27.8	So she is overweight. She's got diabetes that are out of control.
0:34.1	She smokes a lot. She's very mismanaged her money so that she doesn't have.
0:41.1	Okay Stephanie, I have the answer for you.
0:45.4	Okay.
0:46.6	Nothing.
0:49.4	And stop bugging her.
0:51.5	And stop bugging her.
0:55.0	Mom, if you want to commit, your mother has the right to commit slow suicide if she chooses.
0:59.8	If you believe she is a button sound mind and has no clue about the world and what she's doing,
1:04.4	then you can get a psychiatrist to say she's unfit to make decisions, go to court, and take over
1:10.2	everything. But if she's a sound mind mom, I'm assuming you are, and she just wants to commit slow
1:16.9	suicide, it's her life, her choice. And stop freaking nagging her. Get on with your life.
1:24.6	Stop bugging your mother.
1:28.6	Okay.
1:29.8	And the proof that I'm right is you've been bugging her forever and it hasn't worked, duh. So, you know,
1:35.3	let's stop bugging her. So mom, you're okay about committing slow suicide because definitely
1:41.0	we just like an understanding. Did you hear Dr. Lauren? Yeah, I don't want to commit slow.
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