Mom has attempted suicide, doctor does nothing.

hi everyone, 

first off, i am a college student and trying to become a doctor, so i am incredibly busy with school. anyways, after a long, long divorce process that seemed like it would never end, 4 years later, my parents finally got a divorce. my mother was a changed person after that. she went through a stage of severe depression and still is. since 2012, she has attempted to kill herself 5 times that i know off. once with a rope, and the others were with medication. luckily, with her medication attempts, she has been rushed to the hospital very quickly. over the summer, i found her on the bathroom floor with a presciption of xanex, a very faint pulse, and i immediately called for an ambulance. she stayed in a voluntary pysch hospital for one night and checked out the next day. only to try suicide a week later. i called her doctor (who is also my doctor), the same one she has had for 35 years. i was beyond upset by what happened and he said okay, ill talk to her. that was it. i saw him a week later in his office and told him something had to be done. my mother is abusing her medication and has been for several years. she will save up her xanex and one day, she'll pop all of them. now, my mom is quite dramatic, but still so, no one should talk about suicide as much as she does. she will take twice her dose of medication and drink on it. she then becomes drunk and talks about how life has been difficult since the divorce, and how she just needs to die. i keep talking to her doctor about it, and last time i did, he said shes upset with your father and you stress her out is what she tells me. my mom wont change doctors and i dont want her to die because hes clearly an idiot. not to mention, my mom worked for a nonprofit health care syste, and therefore thinks she knows everything about medicine. she also is a fantastic liar when it comes to talking about suicide. to her doctor, its always, i accidentally took too many pills and forgot i was drinking.. and he believes her and not me. i know i could forcebly place her into a hospital, but shes still my mom and as much as i know she needs it, i cant do it. i dont know what to do?

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