Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

I am 18 years old, live with my mother, and I have a history of substance abuse problems. A few months ago, my mother had me involuntarily committed to a state rehabilitation program. Since then, I have gotten a job, see a therapist every week, do not use drugs, and am healthy. In general, I am doing very well. My mother is delusional and psychotic, as well as mentally and emotionally abusive. She is now threatening to have me committed again because she thinks I am using drugs again, but I am not. She has told me recently and in the past that she wishes I was never born, that she hopes I overdose and die, that I am a piece of s***, and that she hates me and can't stand me being around. I do nothing wrong at all and am only trying to is live my life and improve it day by day. I need serious help protecting me from being committed for no reason. It is very easy for her to go down to the district court and have me committed, it required no proof, only the "concern of a blood relative." I am scared that she will succeed in doing this because she is my mother. She will lie about anything and everything to have me committed because she wants to be able to literally control my life. I need help protecting me from her and preventing this from happening. She is a chronic marijuana user, suffers from metal disorders, and like I said, she is extremely mentally and emotionally abusive to me. What can I do?

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