Was Roxy's mother in a normal mental state?

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Yes, in my opinion, she was in a normal state of mind. Though the loss of her daughter seems to have traumatized her, that was her personality because as a Christian she never stopped cursing and swearing
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I don't think she had any mental illness. She just was in denial that her other daughter had died and was just not accepting that fact.
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I did not like how Roxy's mother was portrayed. Clearly she is still grieving for her daughter, but the writer did not make her sympathetic enough. Roxy's treatment of her mother was harsh.
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Yes, I think she's delusional and suffering from a mental illness because she mistook Roxy for Audrey and it's very obvious that Audrey was her favourite child so her death must have affected her mentally
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Post by Candy1Candy »

Well, we didn't get much of her to be specific about what she was suffering from. But all I can say for sure is that she might have suffered a real breakdown after losing all the members of her family that she cherished, being left with the only daughter she didn't like (which didn't even sound motherly), and she didn't seem to recognize her as a family anymore.
Plus, I think her over-religious character was because she wanted to cover the sadness hole in her by finding comfort instead of tightening the relationship between her and Roxy.
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Post by Eruore Ekpoh »

Roxy's mother was not in a normal mental state. She had suffered the loss of her husband and her child. Mrs. Fisher struggles to overcome the grief but is in denial, and she no longer recognizes her only surviving daughter Roxy.
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I would say it was the traumatic experience of losing her husband, then her favorite child accumulated until even the anything and everything became unbearable. Plus I don't think she like Roxy. How a parent can be so biased...i don't know.
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I think the trauma of her dead child changed her irrevocably and drained from her any love that she might have had to give to Roxy and as such this stopped her from being a good mother to Roxy. I wouldn't say its a mental illness but just the result of pain and loss.
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Roxy's mother was just fine. The action of Roxy was just too much for her to bear. This is what most parents would do. Only that she needed a forgiving heart. At least to care if she is not coming back.
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No, I do not think she is in a normal mental state. I think she had to much expectations for her daughter and wanted her to act in a certain way. I think she also does not love her daughter so much.
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No,she was not. Emotionally, Roxy's mother was not okay. The fact that she lost a daughter could bring any mother to an unfamiliar state.
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I believe Roxy's mother has not accepted the fact that she lost her favorite daughter , the one that could have followed her footsteps. Trying to mould Roxy into what she was not definitely frustrated her and caused the reaction to her moral decadence.
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In my opinion, I think Roxy mother is not mentally stable because the death of Roxy's sister. The death affected her to the point that she was going nuts. The death of a loved one can shake one's mind to the core.
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Post by Raggedy Grace Anne Trono »

Roxy's mother, for me, isn't sick or doesn't have any mental illnesses. My insight with this is she's just hurting and still agonizing with the lost of her other daughter. Though I'm sad about how she treat Roxy, no one can really argue that she's wrong because she's really helding her own beliefs. She's a religious woman and not even her daughter can be tolerated to her sins. I just wish she would talk to her daughter in a nice way and treat her own daughter like hers.
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Post by Danny reviews »

Roxy's mum was very unique to me. I don't think anything is wrong with her. I just loved her. I can just say she was a little bit unfortunate.
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