Validation Therapy. 100% . Even healthy people need validation when they are upset. Don’t we all need this type of validation for example when we break up ? We don’t want to hear excuses etc. dementia is something similar x200, it creates so much confusion and anger if you try to deny their reality. After few seconds they forget it so like you say, then you distract the patient. Oh gramma I love you so much I’m so sorry you go through this :-(
My mom: "My bed is on fire. My phone is screaming, can't you hear it? Make it stop." I take the battery out, still screaming... I try to show her the bed is not on fire by going to sit on it, total panic attack...
This is a great video that explains oppressed people in a home full of dominant people who enable psychological tactics ( reverse psychology ). Ptsd patients with toxic people around them with toxic personalities as well as parents who teach their kids such techniques. In some groups they try and say that its beneficial in some way and even developed words like loca or loco further oppressing them into worf synchronizations and interactions as if to liberate them later in some way or another but actually causes more damage and negate it all together. Delerium, psychosis, and other mental illnesses become worse or developed if the correct information, isolation or any kind of dominant oppression occurs.
My stepmom when she has these episodes sees bugs. We started using (as it was easy to grab) febreeze as a "bug spray" since filled with water. And we have squished or stomped on many a "bug" this year. It's the most exhausting for my sister when it happens overnight.
My grandma was just having a halluicnation like your example . It was a big bird or a butterfly . I said , here , let me help you look for it . I look all over. Then I say i think I saw a big moth fly out of the room and im going to catch it but its gone for now so we can go back to bed. Scared tbe crap out of me because i heard her talking to herself and could hear her looking all over her room 😅 hopefully I get some sleep. Been a year and a half ( late stage dementia ) and im hoping this isnt the medication change that happened three days ago . 😮🙏 Thank you for yoir examples !! i gave her a hug and said Ill take care of whatever aninalls or bugs are bugging her 🥺🥴💁
He insisted the pontoon boat being towed ahead of us was on fire and I had to stop so he could let the guy know. He was so angry I didn't know what to do, so we got the driver's attention at the stop sign. He got out and walked all around the pontoon with my husband. Of course it was not on fire. What should I have done?
Currently working with a friend who has Alzheimer's. She previously had her door locks re-keyed because she thought people were getting in. Now after all that, she thinks she needs to get new locks again because people keep stealing from her, she thinks. There's no way I want to take her on shopping trips for locks just because of delusions. Even if they were installed, she'd eventually see people taking things and want more locks etc. Any advice for this besides just changing the subject? Otherwise, it would be an endless time of shopping trips buying locks that are useless anyway just to placate a delusion.
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Validation Therapy. 100% . Even healthy people need validation when they are upset. Don’t we all need this type of validation for example when we break up ? We don’t want to hear excuses etc. dementia is something similar x200, it creates so much confusion and anger if you try to deny their reality. After few seconds they forget it so like you say, then you distract the patient. Oh gramma I love you so much I’m so sorry you go through this :-(
My mom: "My bed is on fire. My phone is screaming, can't you hear it? Make it stop." I take the battery out, still screaming... I try to show her the bed is not on fire by going to sit on it, total panic attack...
I'm a geri psych RN. I love your videos. They remind me of their point of view when I'm getting frustrated.
This is a great video that explains oppressed people in a home full of dominant people who enable psychological tactics ( reverse psychology ). Ptsd patients with toxic people around them with toxic personalities as well as parents who teach their kids such techniques. In some groups they try and say that its beneficial in some way and even developed words like loca or loco further oppressing them into worf synchronizations and interactions as if to liberate them later in some way or another but actually causes more damage and negate it all together. Delerium, psychosis, and other mental illnesses become worse or developed if the correct information, isolation or any kind of dominant oppression occurs.
My stepmom when she has these episodes sees bugs. We started using (as it was easy to grab) febreeze as a "bug spray" since filled with water. And we have squished or stomped on many a "bug" this year. It's the most exhausting for my sister when it happens overnight.
Encouraging information -- thank you!
Laura Ezell my pleasure! Working at a psychiatric hospital for dementia folks I’ve seen a lot of that
Share in the commons what hallucinations you have seen as a caregiver!
My grandma was just having a halluicnation like your example . It was a big bird or a butterfly . I said , here , let me help you look for it . I look all over. Then I say i think I saw a big moth fly out of the room and im going to catch it but its gone for now so we can go back to bed. Scared tbe crap out of me because i heard her talking to herself and could hear her looking all over her room 😅 hopefully I get some sleep. Been a year and a half ( late stage dementia ) and im hoping this isnt the medication change that happened three days ago . 😮🙏 Thank you for yoir examples !! i gave her a hug and said Ill take care of whatever aninalls or bugs are bugging her 🥺🥴💁
Thank you for this great video! ❤
He insisted the pontoon boat being towed ahead of us was on fire and I had to stop so he could let the guy know. He was so angry I didn't know what to do, so we got the driver's attention at the stop sign. He got out and walked all around the pontoon with my husband. Of course it was not on fire. What should I have done?
This is so helpful, thank-you!
Currently working with a friend who has Alzheimer's. She previously had her door locks re-keyed because she thought people were getting in. Now after all that, she thinks she needs to get new locks again because people keep stealing from her, she thinks. There's no way I want to take her on shopping trips for locks just because of delusions. Even if they were installed, she'd eventually see people taking things and want more locks etc. Any advice for this besides just changing the subject? Otherwise, it would be an endless time of shopping trips buying locks that are useless anyway just to placate a delusion.
Kwickset makes locks that can be rekeyed. Maybe you could tell her you're rekeying the lock for her?
@@johnsuechandler478 After all this time, she's in a memory care center so the original issue doesn't exist any more. Thanks anyway.
Thank you for information
God bless you
Of course, my pleasure!
great video- very helpful!
thanks girl!