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Just because you re senile doesn{t mean you re stupid
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 417457" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>My mom was senile with Alzheimers and she was still convinced most days that she was going home. Now on any given day that could be many different homes. LOL. It varied from her last home in Myrtle Beach to my family home where she lived for years raising me to her homes in MA where she was raised. I never quite knew exactly which one she meant until she got to really talking. </p><p></p><p>I just kept telling her she was home and that there wasnt any other home she was ever going back to. This was it. She never was quite happy with that answer but she had to make due because we didnt give her a choice. Normally she tended to forget what she was talking about in short order anyway. If I could find something on TV that caught her interest, politics for example, I could redirect her for awhile. Fox News, CNN and CSPAN were my friends back then...lol. She would argue with them for hours. </p><p></p><p>One thing I did learn is that you cannot convince a delusional person anything. Nothing. If they believe it, you have to let them. It is their reality. I would simply go along with whatever she says and just smile and nod even though you know good and well its not happening. Same as when I was pregnant with twins. No one could tell me different when I was convinced I was. Everyone just played along until I came to the point when I figured it out on my own. I would have thought they were lying to me. There were many things they told me that I got furious at people for telling me. Like telling me that I couldnt walk. I was convinced I had been walking all the time while I was still in ICU but of course I wasnt but in my coma I had delusions that I was walking all over the place. I kept telling people that I needed to get up to go to the bathroom even though I had a foley in. They kept telling me I couldnt. I was furious. I could hardly move but in order to prove to me after I had fits, they tried to sit me up and of course, I couldnt even put weight on my feet. I was so confused. It made no sense to me since I was convinced I had been walking all over. Its really hard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 417457, member: 1514"] My mom was senile with Alzheimers and she was still convinced most days that she was going home. Now on any given day that could be many different homes. LOL. It varied from her last home in Myrtle Beach to my family home where she lived for years raising me to her homes in MA where she was raised. I never quite knew exactly which one she meant until she got to really talking. I just kept telling her she was home and that there wasnt any other home she was ever going back to. This was it. She never was quite happy with that answer but she had to make due because we didnt give her a choice. Normally she tended to forget what she was talking about in short order anyway. If I could find something on TV that caught her interest, politics for example, I could redirect her for awhile. Fox News, CNN and CSPAN were my friends back then...lol. She would argue with them for hours. One thing I did learn is that you cannot convince a delusional person anything. Nothing. If they believe it, you have to let them. It is their reality. I would simply go along with whatever she says and just smile and nod even though you know good and well its not happening. Same as when I was pregnant with twins. No one could tell me different when I was convinced I was. Everyone just played along until I came to the point when I figured it out on my own. I would have thought they were lying to me. There were many things they told me that I got furious at people for telling me. Like telling me that I couldnt walk. I was convinced I had been walking all the time while I was still in ICU but of course I wasnt but in my coma I had delusions that I was walking all over the place. I kept telling people that I needed to get up to go to the bathroom even though I had a foley in. They kept telling me I couldnt. I was furious. I could hardly move but in order to prove to me after I had fits, they tried to sit me up and of course, I couldnt even put weight on my feet. I was so confused. It made no sense to me since I was convinced I had been walking all over. Its really hard. [/QUOTE]
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