Dear all,
After last week's problem with being pushed to the ground, we now have a new one.
Mum is hearing voices calling her name. She has been mentioning this for a couple of weeks. Last week she told me to listen and tell her if I could hear it. Of course I couldn't. She has been going round the other residents asking if they can hear it, and of course they can't either.
I have tried to tell her it is just in her head, but she won't have it. She gets angry with me "Margaret, I am not making it up, they are shouting me". Sometimes she says they are just muttering her name outside her bedroom door.
But it is constant. When I took her shopping a couple of weeks ago, whoever it was had followed her to the shopping precinct and was shouting her name there as well.
All that would be okay but on Wednesday she told me that she couldn't stand it any more, and would be on the lookout for some pills she could take that would kill her.
Two questions. One, should I tell the CH staff and her GP? I would think so. Two, can anything be done to get these voices out of her head?
I would appreciate anyone's advice.
Love
Margaret
PS I do like those little messages that some people put on the end of their posts. Mine would be "It never rains but it pours".
After last week's problem with being pushed to the ground, we now have a new one.
Mum is hearing voices calling her name. She has been mentioning this for a couple of weeks. Last week she told me to listen and tell her if I could hear it. Of course I couldn't. She has been going round the other residents asking if they can hear it, and of course they can't either.
I have tried to tell her it is just in her head, but she won't have it. She gets angry with me "Margaret, I am not making it up, they are shouting me". Sometimes she says they are just muttering her name outside her bedroom door.
But it is constant. When I took her shopping a couple of weeks ago, whoever it was had followed her to the shopping precinct and was shouting her name there as well.
All that would be okay but on Wednesday she told me that she couldn't stand it any more, and would be on the lookout for some pills she could take that would kill her.
Two questions. One, should I tell the CH staff and her GP? I would think so. Two, can anything be done to get these voices out of her head?
I would appreciate anyone's advice.
Love
Margaret
PS I do like those little messages that some people put on the end of their posts. Mine would be "It never rains but it pours".