I believe you are all paid up with your mother. It’s more than just difficult to live a healthy life with your daughter as long as your mother is around constantly — it is, in fact, impossible. When you face that fact, because you have spelled out all the facts even with photos (which in my view were not necessary — I believe you), you will know what you owe your mother at this point: Nothing. You don’t have to call the Salvation Army to get her a bed, or get her a doctor’s appointment. She has taken and taken and taken from you for long enough. YOU are a healthy individual, Shannon, and you deserve a peaceful, non-toxic environment to live in and raise your beloved daughter in. Amen to you for writing all this out. For, in Neil Gaiman’s words, “The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself…That is the moment, you might be starting to get it right.” You ARE getting it right.