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The threat of going inpatient may deter her in the moment but if she were able to control her behavior with just a warning wouldn’t that be great….
If mom is self harming then her meds may need adjusting to help her with her “grief”.
I would just assure mom that you will be visiting with her doctor soon.
If they get a UTI (Urinary Tract Infection) it can exacerbate their behavioral symptoms.
exacerbate: makes the behavior worse
If a patient has had frequent UTI's needing antibiotics, they may get Candida, a yeast infection. I am sure that having a yeast infection can cause a person to cry.
You know this.
I’m sorry you are looking for an exit ramp (I don’t blame you), but this is what’s going on.
My dad told me and everyone else whatever he thought would best serve his purposes. It was crazy making at 1st and it took me a while to listen knowing what I knew was truth, not his version of the truth.
Great big warm hugs! This is hard when mental illness and dementia collide in a brain. It will be a roller-coaster, so prepare yourself, you'll be okay.
When you combine BPD with dementia, what ensues is chaos like nothing else. My mother had BPD and vascular dementia so all I dealt with was histrionics, I'm sorry to say, since I was a child. The dementia just intensified the lies and the confabulating, at least in my mother's case.
I'd take what your mother is saying with a grain of salt until you can verify it with the NP.
Best of luck to you.
It is EXTREMELY concerning.
Scans don't lie. If you had a skilled assessment done, those results do not disappear, and something here is radically amiss, especially in light of the self-harming and the DECREASE, not increase in normal mentation.
You truly need to take scans to a good neuro-psyc and this needs to be fully medically explained and worked on by a good hospital with adequate neuro-psyc department. I see in your profile that there have been mental health issues, right along. And it is often difficult to assess patients who present with two modalities going.
But scans don't lie.
Anything that a Forum of strangers would say to you now is complete guesswork.
We can't know what medications or med cocktails are being tried. We don't know your Mom, her diagnosis or prognosis, or history. It is very likely that she does have both dementia and mental illness.
I am afraid I can only wish you good luck, and advise you to follow up.
If Mom has FTD she may very well be making this up. Mom self harming herself and should be brought up to the doctor who was seeing her in the unit. She may need to be medicated.