When I was 14 she wanted to send me to a religious school - to which I flat out refused.

Long story short she beat the crap out of me and tied me up. Social services took me away and placed me in foster care (which is an awful place to be I must say, at least with my mother I had affection and love. Sticking a 14 year old in a home where nobody gives a crap about them isn’t nice)

I went no contact with her for three years before I decided to accept her apology and rebuild our relationship. She’s helped me out a lot and I wouldn’t have been able to come this far in university without her. But she’s still deeply religious, and there’s nothing I can do about that.

She’s not crazy per se, like she doesn’t hallucinate but she is paranoid (but only because she suffered a lot of domestic physical abuse from my dad).

I try to understand her wrongs rather than attack them.!