This is the first in a series of stories chronicling a young mother's efforts to get help for her mentally ill teenage daughter in Rankin Inlet.

A Rankin Inlet mother is terrified that mental health services in the community are going to ignore her heartbroken pleas for help and let her daughter slip through the cracks.

The mother, who is being granted anonymity, told Kivalliq News that her teenage daughter presents a danger to herself as well as others. Last month, her daughter tried to assault her with a large knife, she alleges. 

In police custody at the time of the interview, the daughter has experienced drastic negative changes to her personality and behavioral patterns during the past year, according to the mom.

She said up until the past year, her daughter was a very smart, very sweet girl.

SA国际影视传媒淚 would make her hats and she would go down to the start of the town and work her way back up home selling these hats,SA国际影视传媒� said her mom. SA国际影视传媒淎nd, she knew how to manage money. She managed to make herself enough money in one day to buy herself a bike.

SA国际影视传媒淪he came home with a brand-new bike and all hats sold.

SA国际影视传媒淪he's very smart. I know she has lots of potential. She can do anything she wants.SA国际影视传媒�

The teen's mother said there have been acts of violence in the family home since the daughter started her downward spiral.

She said one of the more traumatizing ones for her family was when her daughter burned her belongings in the porch with nine people still in the house.

SA国际影视传媒淢y daughter goes in and out of herself, so you can't really understand what she's saying or you can't really take it in what she's saying. Half the time she doesn't even know what she's doing anymore.

SA国际影视传媒淚 have a son who is 18 now and started showing signs of mental illness in November of 2021 and was admitted into hospital in February of 2022 and diagnosed with cognitive behavioural delay, bipolar and schizophrenia.

SA国际影视传媒淚 could see in my daughter the same signs, and I told all the health officials that I don't want to wait. I don't want to fight for another three years to get my daughter help until it gets to the point where it's probably too late,

SA国际影视传媒淢y daughter threatened to harm herself numerous times and was hospitalized down in Winnipeg this past June at the HSC Hospital psychiatric ward for two weeks because she tried to overdose. Both my daughter and my son were hospitalized at the same time in different wards."

The mother said she's been fighting for help for so long that she knows the signs and can tell when her children are about to go into episodes. It takes about a day or two when she notices it.

She said she's not a doctor, but she knows her son and daughter need medication and they both need to be monitored on these medications properly for a period, not just sent home.

SA国际影视传媒淚 could take them into the health centre how many million times after they started their medication and tell them something's not right with my kid. I've been dealing with [my son] and his schizophrenia for almost four years now and, as of March 10, he's been hospitalized for good and he's not coming home.

SA国际影视传媒淭hat makes me feel like [expletive]. I'm a Mom. I give up my life. I give up my body and my mental health to be a Mom. I didn't come from the best childhood upbringing you know, and, growing up, I didn't feel the kind of love that I should have. I got it from my mom, yes, but that's it.

SA国际影视传媒淪o, I give up myself to have kids and to give them that love that I didn't have and for my kids to love me and give me that love back. With all the incidents that happened with my daughter, cops know all of it because cops were always involved when my daughter would have one of her episodes or whatever and do frigged-up [expletive] SA国际影视传媒� the cops were involved.

SA国际影视传媒淭hey know the story. They know my daughter and they know she needs help. They, themselves, the , said they know she needs help SA国际影视传媒� but mental health said to me that because my daughter doesn't want to talk, they can't help her. But yet, the cops went in there themselves with my daughter a few times and told mental health that she needs help. But my daughter was always being turned away. Just recently, I talked to a supervisor over at social services and was told they couldn't do anything to help my daughter because mental health were not listening to them and were not helping them.SA国际影视传媒�