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Elder Rage

Daughter's Initial Attempts

I had to give up my life for a year as I tried to solve his bursts of rage on my own, riding a roller coaster of emotions as some days he'd be my loving dad and so normal, and then all of a sudden something would set him off and he'd go into a screaming tirade calling me every nasty name he could think of.

As I tried to make safety changes to my parents' home and help them, he threw me out and even choked me because I added HBO to his television for a caregiver who had requested it, even though he had previously given his permission. The police were called and he was 5150'd to a psychiatric hospital for 72-hour observation.