  My mom successfully had my grandma taken to a mental hospital today. Grandma was pissed when the po-po's showed up at her house, arrested her, and took her to the mental hospital. But that doesn't necessarily show that grandma's crazy. Wouldn't you be pissed if my mom showed up at your house to have you committed?
I don't know my grandma very well, but from what I gather, she simply wants to sit at home all day watching tv, drinking beer, and smoking cigarrettes. She doesn't like my parents and is rude to them when they visit her. Last week my mom wanted my grandma to be put in the Alzheimer's ward of a nursing home. I reminded mom that the doctor had said grandma doesn't have Alzheimer's. That didn't matter to my mom. Her solution was that the nursing home would keep grandma permanently sedated, in a drug-induced Alzheimer's-like state.
My mom scares me. When I was growing up, I had this fear that she would have me committed. I finally escaped her control when I turned 18. In the time leading up to me going to college, my mom got extra crazy. She slept in my bed at night and wouldn't let me go out alone. I think she was scared of me leaving her, and wanted to treasure every last moment of control. My mom is also a control freak.
Ironically, she accuses everyone around her of being a control freak. If you don't do exactly what my mom tells you, you are deemed a control freak. My mom can also be very sweat and nice, but it's times like these that make me afraid of her and scared for the people around her, like my dad and grandma. 
