Hi any advice would be very much appreciated if anyone’s still awake I’m really desperate!
My mum has advanced dementia and over the last couple of days has been getting increasingly distressed. Shes barely eaten a thing for the last three days. She thinks we’ve kidnapped her and are holding her hostage and won’t let her go home to her mum. She keeps sneaking out of the house and wandering off. If we catch her and try to stop her she becomes aggressive and storms off, we can’t physically restrain her. We live close to the river and she thinks she lives on the other side of the river. She is crying hysterically constantly and gets even more distressed when it starts to get dark, it’s like someone’s suddenly flicked a switch. Tonight she was crying hysterically and saying she couldn’t breath, her blood pressure was 190/70 so I called an ambulance. When they came she told them we wouldn’t let her go home and was crying hysterically. They said they felt she needed sectioning because she was so distressed and it wasn’t fair to leave her as she was, the ambulance crew could see how frightened she was. She literally ran out of the house with them, telling them as she went that we were mean because we wouldn’t take her home. She doesn’t recognise me and told me I was a liar when I said I was her daughter. She thinks she’s a little girl. The ambulance man advised me to stay away because she was really distressed by me because I kidnapped her so I agreed it was for the best.
That was at 7pm this evening, I’ve had two calls from the hospital where the nurses in A&E keep ringing me and then putting her on the phone! She’s crying hysterically wanting me to go and get her but I know if she sees me she won’t know me as her daughter. She hasn’t been seen by the mental health team and I’m guessing she’s getting on the nerves of staff at the hospital and they want me to come and take her home. The problem is it won’t solve anything since she doesn’t know who I am and just wants her mum, it will give the nurses at the hospital some peace though. I can’t keep her safe and believe she needs to be sectioned so they can get her on the right medication if I go and get her the same thing will happen all over again. I’ve switched off my phone because my anxiety levels are through the roof I really can’t cope with the way she is at the moment.. can they make me go and get her?
My mum has advanced dementia and over the last couple of days has been getting increasingly distressed. Shes barely eaten a thing for the last three days. She thinks we’ve kidnapped her and are holding her hostage and won’t let her go home to her mum. She keeps sneaking out of the house and wandering off. If we catch her and try to stop her she becomes aggressive and storms off, we can’t physically restrain her. We live close to the river and she thinks she lives on the other side of the river. She is crying hysterically constantly and gets even more distressed when it starts to get dark, it’s like someone’s suddenly flicked a switch. Tonight she was crying hysterically and saying she couldn’t breath, her blood pressure was 190/70 so I called an ambulance. When they came she told them we wouldn’t let her go home and was crying hysterically. They said they felt she needed sectioning because she was so distressed and it wasn’t fair to leave her as she was, the ambulance crew could see how frightened she was. She literally ran out of the house with them, telling them as she went that we were mean because we wouldn’t take her home. She doesn’t recognise me and told me I was a liar when I said I was her daughter. She thinks she’s a little girl. The ambulance man advised me to stay away because she was really distressed by me because I kidnapped her so I agreed it was for the best.
That was at 7pm this evening, I’ve had two calls from the hospital where the nurses in A&E keep ringing me and then putting her on the phone! She’s crying hysterically wanting me to go and get her but I know if she sees me she won’t know me as her daughter. She hasn’t been seen by the mental health team and I’m guessing she’s getting on the nerves of staff at the hospital and they want me to come and take her home. The problem is it won’t solve anything since she doesn’t know who I am and just wants her mum, it will give the nurses at the hospital some peace though. I can’t keep her safe and believe she needs to be sectioned so they can get her on the right medication if I go and get her the same thing will happen all over again. I’ve switched off my phone because my anxiety levels are through the roof I really can’t cope with the way she is at the moment.. can they make me go and get her?
