Thank you. That’s the strangest thing, she never hides anything in the same place twice. Once I find a hiding place she comes up with new places to hide things. It’s almost like she thinks she has to hide them from me, or perhaps she doesn’t remember it was me who found them and only remembers a person found her hiding place so she needs a new hiding place. She keeps telling me two woman are coming into her room and taking her things. She gets very distressed when she can’t find things and insists these women took them. X
Hi Rosserk, just a thought, do you have mirrors in your mums room? I had all the same issues with my dad constantly hiding things because he thought people were coming in and taking them, then forgetting where he had hidden them, which convinced him even more of the thefts.
I ask about the mirrors because my dad was convinced the man next door was coming in stealing his things and spying on him, which was making him very anxious and aggressive. It was by pure chance that one day when I arrived to see dad, he was rushing around very upset, talking about the man watching him, so I asked him to show me. He took me upstairs to his bathroom and pointed to the mirror which was in there and said there he is (with a few choice words). I discovered he no longer recognised himself as the old man he was in mirrors or in reflections in windows etc and it was this that was causing his anxieties. By removing or covering them up he improved greatly and the 'hiding' things calmed down a bit.