Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 2 Location: wallkill,NY
My Moms Weird Behavor Posted: 06-10-06 14:19pm
Hi,
my mom is 80yrs old and we placed her in a
nursing home a little over 2 months ago
due to her not being able to care for
herself due to alzheimers disease or
dementia....We have seen a pretty rapid
deteriation of her memory over this
time,but just recently she became almost
obbsessed with god and jesus....She will
someties sit for hours doing her so called
prayers (thanking god and jesus) other
times she will keep telling them over and
over she is sorry for her sins and the way
she treated my sisters(she was a good mom,
so not sure why she thinks she wasn't)the
other nite she rang my phone and my
sisters appp 20-30 times and just kept
repeating over and over about god,don't
think she even knew there was someone on
the other end. Last nite she was holding
down the button on the phone,so now calls
would go thru and then talking and praying
to god and jesus. Yesterday and today she
became very upset because I came to visit
when she was "praying" and decide that now
I was cursed and was going to die. Is
this a form of psychosis?....Yesterday a
psyhcitrist prescribe a low dose of
respirdol for her phsycosis.....Can any
one give me some ideas of what might be
happening with her?
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sandyallen
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Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 4580
Posted: 06-10-06 17:20pm
I would try to get hold of her Dr. I am
not a dr, it could be a lot of things!
My .Dad had alzheimers and it was
horrible, he did not know anyone, could
not feed himself, dress himself, he went
from 225lbs to 90lbs but I would try to
talk to her Dr.
My thoughts are with your mom and your
family!
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Boilerman
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 2 Location: wallkill,NY
Moms Weird Behavior Posted: 06-11-06 11:34am
Thanks so much for your info and for
thinking of my mom and our family. It's
really appreciated. Will talk to her
doctor and see what they come up with.
They took blood on fri to have tests done.
Never knew it could come on so quickly.
Don
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