My husband has not had a diagnosis, but I and other family members are convinced that he is in the early stages of some form of dementia. It is evidenced by all the usual memory loss problems and confusions, difficulty in understanding new things, or organising his life. Recently he has developed an obsession, which is total consuming him and I can find now way of coaxing him out of it. He believes that the local council have deliberately diverted the stream which runs at the bottom of our garden, into the roadside drainage, with the result that it is silting up and becoming stagnant. Apart from the fact that he has the whole problem completely out of proportion - he says it is ruining his life, he is irrational about it. The council representatives he has spoken to have tried to explain what is really causing the problem, but he is incapable of even hearing them, never mind accepting their explanations. This is the case even when they explain that if what he says has been done had actually happened it would mean that water would be flowing uphill. He will not countenance any other explanation and becomes very angry when anyone disputes what he says (especially me). It is affecting both our lives - he won't sleep and is constantly going on and on about it, getting angrier and angrier, and is becoming very disturbed.
Is there any way I can deal with this to calm him down or to make him see that it really isn't worth making himself ill about.
We have an appointment at the GP later this week for him to have a memory test, but he doesn't believe there is anything wrong with him, and will almost certainly put on an act when we go there.
Please help.
Deborah
Is there any way I can deal with this to calm him down or to make him see that it really isn't worth making himself ill about.
We have an appointment at the GP later this week for him to have a memory test, but he doesn't believe there is anything wrong with him, and will almost certainly put on an act when we go there.
Please help.
Deborah