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Are Hallucinations In The Elderly Made Up Of The Garbled Stuff Of Memory Or Just Imaginings...
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A forthcoming anniversary prompted a memory of an old woman in a hospital ward who was soon to be moved to a hospice. She was distressed and said she wanted to go home because visitors were bringing a little girl with them to see an old man in the same room and he was putting his hand up the child's skirt.
I had an uneasy feeling she might have been describing something in her own experience.
I had an uneasy feeling she might have been describing something in her own experience.
On the last two occasions that my elderly father has been in hospital he has had many hallucinations, they usually have the same theme but are very different, the theme is that there are secret cameras in the wards, a stow away and a celebration dinner. They are very real to him at the time and it takes a lot of persuading to allay his fears then later he thinks I've made it all up.As far as I can see there is little or no facts in his imaginings.
Is this old lady still alive ? If so maybe general conversation may elicit some sort of reply that would clarify the situation - but it is unlikely if she has dementia.
If the lady is dead you are never going to find out. It may be that something did happen in her childhood but it may have been all mixed up with things that she has seen and encountered through her life.
I went through a bad phase of hallucinations a couple of years back. My psychologist explained it all to me in a way that made it sound less frightening. Alas whatever she said to me has evaporated through my ears.
Our brains are fantastic things - but when they break down it all gets a bit scary and bewildering.
If the lady is dead you are never going to find out. It may be that something did happen in her childhood but it may have been all mixed up with things that she has seen and encountered through her life.
I went through a bad phase of hallucinations a couple of years back. My psychologist explained it all to me in a way that made it sound less frightening. Alas whatever she said to me has evaporated through my ears.
Our brains are fantastic things - but when they break down it all gets a bit scary and bewildering.
Bit of both
when I had a psychotic episode in hospital ( I was in hospital first ) they insisted on describing/discussing the content of my hallucinations because they were based on my experiences
I said: if you stop the morphine infusion I will stop thinking I am dead...
[ Full of book of the Dead and Osiris, and as you know I have worked on an Egyptian arccheological site....Oh and I also had snakes crawling over me crossed with the baldacchino in St Peter's Rome which looks like columns with snakes crawling up ]
and they said yeah we have done that - but we still have to discuss what you were thinking and feeling -and I said 'why, this is a complete waste of time - they are well - you know hallucinations....
and they said no it isnt actually and anyway you are the maddest post surgical patient we have ever seen, and the end results are much better if you see someone now ( and it is true - I can talk about it without difficulty )
and here we are fifteen years later, where I can tell you where hallucinations come from....
and for further operations I have been careful to hold onto my marbles - - ( and take less morphine )
when I had a psychotic episode in hospital ( I was in hospital first ) they insisted on describing/discussing the content of my hallucinations because they were based on my experiences
I said: if you stop the morphine infusion I will stop thinking I am dead...
[ Full of book of the Dead and Osiris, and as you know I have worked on an Egyptian arccheological site....Oh and I also had snakes crawling over me crossed with the baldacchino in St Peter's Rome which looks like columns with snakes crawling up ]
and they said yeah we have done that - but we still have to discuss what you were thinking and feeling -and I said 'why, this is a complete waste of time - they are well - you know hallucinations....
and they said no it isnt actually and anyway you are the maddest post surgical patient we have ever seen, and the end results are much better if you see someone now ( and it is true - I can talk about it without difficulty )
and here we are fifteen years later, where I can tell you where hallucinations come from....
and for further operations I have been careful to hold onto my marbles - - ( and take less morphine )
I hope the meat for dinner isn't sourced in any of these places.
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