I am new to this forum and struggling to deal with my mums diagnosis and hallucinations. Before the lockdown mum was coping fairly well, living on her own at the age of 90 with help from myself, her only child, and my husband. She heard voices mostly concerning a young boy who was in love with her and she wasn’t too distressed so we went along with the story. She became Increasingly distressed as she heard more voices, some quite unpleasant and created a whole story to explain them all, involving the boy and the horrible aunts who looked after him and his awful friends. They started to threaten her at night and she would ring the police and myself. She was referred to the mental health team who have tried different medications which haven’t helped much yet. She has some terrible days and nights now with hardly any sleep because she is so afraid and then sleeps really well as she is so exhausted and seems almost normal again until the whole process starts again.
We got some carers to come in to help her and us but this seems to have made her more afraid as she thinks they are part of the bad gang of awful friends and are trying to rob her especially as they have to wear masks at the moment.
She has now been taken to hospital as she refused to take her medication and food or drink as she thought the carers and ourselves were trying to poison her and started throwing things around. They thought she might have a urine infection.
She doesn’t have an infection and has now had a couple of good nights sleep so the hospital are talking about sending her home. I’m really worried as I don’t know how we are going to cope now. My husband is 77 and I have a neurological condition and I’m scared for the future. This all seems to have happened so quickly.
We got some carers to come in to help her and us but this seems to have made her more afraid as she thinks they are part of the bad gang of awful friends and are trying to rob her especially as they have to wear masks at the moment.
She has now been taken to hospital as she refused to take her medication and food or drink as she thought the carers and ourselves were trying to poison her and started throwing things around. They thought she might have a urine infection.
She doesn’t have an infection and has now had a couple of good nights sleep so the hospital are talking about sending her home. I’m really worried as I don’t know how we are going to cope now. My husband is 77 and I have a neurological condition and I’m scared for the future. This all seems to have happened so quickly.