First of all i apologise for the long post.
I believe my mum has dementia.
She has most symptoms.
Her memory is declining, shes anxious, depressed angry and paranoid.
she's forgetting where she has placed stuff but ends up finding them in strange places ( the other day she put her bank card in her glasses case which she never does)
She struggles remembering how to do daily tasks like cooking and using certain cleaning products for different things.
She keeps putting rubbish in the food bin instead of the recycling bin.
She walkes around the house at night packing her most important possessions into a bag which she says is just in case someone takes them.
She thinks the tv talks to her, it started with sky news now she thinks Mr tumble from cbeebies, Rylan Clark and Emma Willis from big brother, the cast from strictly come dancing and the news team from itv all talk to her.
I live with her and she sleeps in the floor below me and I can hear her talking and laughing with the tv.
Unfortunately there is one presenter on sky news who she hates and she keeps telling me she comes into the house and tries to steal her bed.
She got so upset one night two weeks ago telling me she had nowhere to sleep as the woman was coming to take her bed.
It took a lot of reassuring to settle her down.
She's getting paranoid also of people outside our house, we live in the centre of town and she thinks people are going to break in. If someone stands near our door she screams and bangs on the window to get them to move.
She's shouting a lot which causes people to look up to our window which makes her more anxious and angry. I have to keep the blinds down which seems to calm her.
She was upset earlier, thinking I was calling her stupid as she keeps forgetting stuff ( i would never) and she shouted for a while, she calmed down and gave me a hug, we had tea and she sort of went back to normal then at bedtime she started getting anxious again and shouting.
Are these common symptoms of dementia?
She does suffer from depression and has done for most of her life, ( she's 62) and has ptsd for the last 7 years but only this past few months have these symptoms started.
I've had many conversations lately with her asking her to go to the doctors to get some help, she seems to think it's all her depression and doesn't seem to recall some of her erratic behaviour, and she refuses saying I'm interfering and she's worried the doctors will give her medication that will make her sleep all day.
I try my best every day to deal with her mood swings but it's getting extremely hard for me to cope without outside support.
Can anyone give me any advice on what to do next?
Thankyou for reading.
I believe my mum has dementia.
She has most symptoms.
Her memory is declining, shes anxious, depressed angry and paranoid.
she's forgetting where she has placed stuff but ends up finding them in strange places ( the other day she put her bank card in her glasses case which she never does)
She struggles remembering how to do daily tasks like cooking and using certain cleaning products for different things.
She keeps putting rubbish in the food bin instead of the recycling bin.
She walkes around the house at night packing her most important possessions into a bag which she says is just in case someone takes them.
She thinks the tv talks to her, it started with sky news now she thinks Mr tumble from cbeebies, Rylan Clark and Emma Willis from big brother, the cast from strictly come dancing and the news team from itv all talk to her.
I live with her and she sleeps in the floor below me and I can hear her talking and laughing with the tv.
Unfortunately there is one presenter on sky news who she hates and she keeps telling me she comes into the house and tries to steal her bed.
She got so upset one night two weeks ago telling me she had nowhere to sleep as the woman was coming to take her bed.
It took a lot of reassuring to settle her down.
She's getting paranoid also of people outside our house, we live in the centre of town and she thinks people are going to break in. If someone stands near our door she screams and bangs on the window to get them to move.
She's shouting a lot which causes people to look up to our window which makes her more anxious and angry. I have to keep the blinds down which seems to calm her.
She was upset earlier, thinking I was calling her stupid as she keeps forgetting stuff ( i would never) and she shouted for a while, she calmed down and gave me a hug, we had tea and she sort of went back to normal then at bedtime she started getting anxious again and shouting.
Are these common symptoms of dementia?
She does suffer from depression and has done for most of her life, ( she's 62) and has ptsd for the last 7 years but only this past few months have these symptoms started.
I've had many conversations lately with her asking her to go to the doctors to get some help, she seems to think it's all her depression and doesn't seem to recall some of her erratic behaviour, and she refuses saying I'm interfering and she's worried the doctors will give her medication that will make her sleep all day.
I try my best every day to deal with her mood swings but it's getting extremely hard for me to cope without outside support.
Can anyone give me any advice on what to do next?
Thankyou for reading.
