My mom has been acting like such a crazy b*tch lately?

[☯☮✌♥]

For the past month, I'd say, my mom has literally been acting like a psycho. We've always had a close relationship, but we've had more stupid fights in the past month than we had had in like a year before that. She keeps trying to say that everyone else has been acting up and setting her off, but none of us (myself, my dad or my brothers) have really been acting any differently than what we normally are!
She's been picking fights over the stupidest things and overreacting about stuff that really doesn't matter at all. Then she builds momentum until she's literally flipping out and yelling all because of this one TINY thing that originally set her off. Even my dad has noticed it and he's been trying to keep more of his distance from her too.

Example of something that happened recently: I'm 20, and I have a Facebook account. (Since this blowup I've rectified the privacy settings on my account but before this, I forgot to block her from seeing all of my tagged pictures. She's blocked from seeing most of my stuff, I just forgot a loophole.) One of my best friends posted a funny picture of us (not inappropriate) of us goofing around and sticking our middle fingers up for the camera. You can clearly tell it's a joke, the caption even says so. But she literally FLIPPED out, saying that "my friend is trashy and looks like a wh*re and a terrible influence" blah blah blah when this friend I'm talking about is actually one of the smartest and sweetest people I know, and my mom has met her many times and loved her.
Now mind you, we have family on there who post much worse pictures than what my friend and I did, yet my mom acts like I put nudes up on there or something. Plus, I'm 20. I can legally post whatever I want to on my account. It's ridiculous and she started a huge fight over this.

She's just been trying to micromanage everything lately and when it doesn't go exactly her way, she flips out and starts a fight. And it's driving my entire family nuts. Is there anything I can do?
I actually am in college, full time. I'm in my junior year. And tbh nobody my age that I know (let alone myself) can afford to get a place of their own because of how expensive rent and everything else is in our area so that's why I'm still living at home. Not that that part of the equation is really anybody else's business, but I'm just throwing that out there.

[Pocket Protecktor]

Here are some possibilities as to why she's behaving that way.

1. She might have had an affair and the guilt is eating her up.
2. She may have started using drugs (meth or coke or pills)
3. She thinks your dad is cheating on her.
4. She's sick of you and wishes you'd get your own place or go away to college.
5. She's worried about you growing up so fast and losing your innocence.

The more she micromanages, the more you ought to just accept it and let her do it…or tell her politely and respectfully that you think she needs to lighten up and let that stick up her wazoo die a natural death.

[bad girl]

Based on your age (20) I think your mother is going through the hormonal mood swings of menopause. Added to an expectation that a 20year old and upper age teenagers should become more self sufficient. Dad is taking the wrong approach by distancing himself fro his wife as this is when she needs his love and support most. Same for needing love and support from her children. While Mom goes through this natural process you will have to enter a new stage in life-adulthood.

[lopez_luciana]

Oh, please! Look your mother isn't acting like a literal psycho, she's just going through some emotional hardship. What you should do is sit down with her and ask her how she's feeling? Why is she doing what she is? What you can do to help? Don't just distance yourselves from her, that could make things worse.
Take it from someone who really does have a psycho mother, your mom needs you guys don't leave her out in the cold.