My mom is pushing her whole family away because she can't stop pushing her conspiracy theories on others.

My (21) mom is ruining basically all of her relationships because of her beliefs, she believes in pretty much any conspiracy theory you can think of and constantly pushes these beliefs in conversations and states them as a fact, if you attempt to disprove any of her "facts" she simply does not care, gets defensive and states how she has "researched" the topic for years, "research" = google and facebook groups.

some of the more crazy things are

• covid vaccine is giving people aids.
• covid vaccine is just an experiment for the government to see if they can alter peoples DNA.
• the usual vaccines cause autism and any other negative health effect you can think of.
• the government wants to block out the sun? I asked how and she said some sort of big metal plate
• homeopathy.
• essential oils cure every illness including cancer.
• cancer can be cured just by eating right.
• energy "healing" also can cure every illness
• Lots more but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

My sister doesn't want to speak to her anymore because she is getting married and my mom thinks they should wait and be together longer before getting married, my sisters boyfriend got the covid shot and my mom texted him a nasty message basically saying that he was going to give my sister aids because he got the shot...

My mom got divorced about a year ago likely because of stuff like this. And it looks like she might cut ties with her brother too because he and his family seem like they want to get the covid shot.

My tactic with her is basically just not engage with anything she says and ignore anything that sounds crazy, I used to try to disprove her arguments but it really makes no difference, it wont change her mind, she'll just say "oh that research was done by the government so it's false!" while backing up her claims with random peoples "experience" or a website that looks like it was created in 5 minutes by a random person.

It's just really sad to see her push everyone away because of these stupid beliefs, is there anything you can do to get through to a person like this? has anyone had a parent like this? what did you do?

I want to maintain a relationship but its so hard when every conversation ends in a conspiracy theory of some sort. I just don't know why she latched on to these beliefs and basically pushed everyone away besides some of her friends that share the same beliefs, she's not religious and doesn't like when people try to push their religion on others, so I basically said "mom this is pretty much exactly what you do!" she didn't agree, lol.

If anyone else has a parent like this I'd love to hear what happened in your family, or if you somehow broke the spell i'd love to hear about it. Thank you for reading this.

TL;DR mom believes in conspiracy theories and constantly pushes these beliefs on everyone she is around, is there anything that I can do?

Submitted May 02, 2021 at 08:54PM by blob435 https://ift.tt/3vBYPtY