We've been married for 28 years. He is 49, I'm 48. So needless to say I know this man well. This past January, something changed quickly. He wasn't himself, he had a "psychosis" episode even though he has no history of mental illness. He had paranoid delusions and hallucinations. He did some things like empty our bank account because he thought I was laundering money. He imagined men here who weren't here. He didn't sleep for days and drove himself to the ER one night at 2:30am without waking me up, when he is a man who I would normally have to convince to see a dr and he would never go alone. He would search everything in our house, including my purse, looking for something. He was convinced I was hiding things from him. He even demanded to see his truck title one, as if I had some conspiracy to hide with the title. He was even eating things he never would normally eat at random times of the day.
We saw the GP after the ER visit who ran some tests and did a brain MRI without contrast that was normal. They then said they would refer him to a psychiatrist which he refused. He's always been healthy but has a strong family history of heart disease and diabetes. Since then, he's gotten better in the sense that he hasn't hallucinated (or at least hasn't told me), started sleeping better, but he is still not himself at all. His entire personality is different and he still seems paranoid, mostly about me, for no reason. He had followed me to my place of work a couple of times, tries to facetime me while I'm at work, for me to prove I'm really there.
I spoke to someone about his wife who was diagnosed with early dementia, and during the conversation, it was as if he was describing my exact situation, almost 100%. Since then, I've been reading on some of the early signs of dementia and this is where it's lead me. I feel like my life may be permanently changed after learning about this and realizing this may very well be my new reality. Does any of this behavior sound familiar? Am I barking up the right tree? TIA
We saw the GP after the ER visit who ran some tests and did a brain MRI without contrast that was normal. They then said they would refer him to a psychiatrist which he refused. He's always been healthy but has a strong family history of heart disease and diabetes. Since then, he's gotten better in the sense that he hasn't hallucinated (or at least hasn't told me), started sleeping better, but he is still not himself at all. His entire personality is different and he still seems paranoid, mostly about me, for no reason. He had followed me to my place of work a couple of times, tries to facetime me while I'm at work, for me to prove I'm really there.
I spoke to someone about his wife who was diagnosed with early dementia, and during the conversation, it was as if he was describing my exact situation, almost 100%. Since then, I've been reading on some of the early signs of dementia and this is where it's lead me. I feel like my life may be permanently changed after learning about this and realizing this may very well be my new reality. Does any of this behavior sound familiar? Am I barking up the right tree? TIA