I have an aged Mother into her 80s. I live in the US, whereas my mom lives in India cared for by my sibling brother.Lately my mom is acting crazy and delusional. Trying find some answers to help my sibling brother cope with the situation.
She is going back into her history of early childhood and coming up with situations wherein she says she has had bad experiences with others at that time. We as her children, have no idea what she is talking about. My mom has been very mean to my brother and sister-in-law who are providing care and demanding too many things making no sense!
Just now I got a call from my brother, where my mom in the middle of the night was packing her things in a suitcase hoping to move out of my brother's house for no apparent reason. Each day she is coming up with something new. We had her checked out with a mental health doctor and he has put her on some meds to see if it helps
Any suggestions on how to cope with this situation?...thanks
It sounds like your mom is suffering from dementia of some kind, but like Alva said, it could be anything really. What did the mental health doctor have to say? Did he give her a cognition exam to see where she stands, cognitively? If he wrote a prescription for her, he had to have arrived at a diagnosis for her, right? Are the meds helping?
Very difficult situation for you to be in, and also for your siblings. Old age is hard enough to deal with, but when they start hallucinating and acting totally out of character, it makes a bad situation 100x worse.
Wishing you all the best of luck trying to figure out what's going on with your mother!