Dear Abby: Woman’s mental health negatively affects her kids

Dear Abby: How can I protect my mentally ill daughter’s children?

DEAR ABBY: My daughter, “Aline,” 40, has gone from crisis to crisis since childhood. She can go from kind and generous one minute, to vindictive and mean the next. She’s easily triggered into rants, hurling the most hurtful words she can come up with. Men move in and out of her life on a regular basis. I’m sure Aline would qualify as mentally ill, but she insists she’s too smart to go to therapy -- she knows more than they do. I have become exha…

Dear Abby: I would cut my mentally unstable daughter out of my life if I could; I stay for her kids

DEAR ABBY: My daughter, “Aline,” 40, has gone from crisis to crisis since childhood. She can go from kind and generous one minute, to vindictive and mean the next. She’s easily triggered into rants, hurling the most hurtful words she can come up with. Men move in and out of her life on a regular basis.

Dear Abby: My daughter’s mental health crisis affects her kids

Dear Abby: My daughter, “Aline,” 40, has gone from crisis to crisis since childhood. She can go from kind and generous one minute, to vindictive and mean the next. She’s easily triggered into rants, hurling the most hurtful words she can come up with. Men move in and out of her life on a regular basis.

Dear Abby: Woman’s mental health negatively affects her kids

Dear Abby: Protecting kids from emotionally abusive mom

Abby hears from a woman whose mentally ill daughter is doing emotional damage to her children; while a reader struggles with grief after boyfriend's death.

Dear Abby: How can I protect these kids from their horrible mother?

The oldest fled at 18, but his younger siblings are still in her house.