my mom is 71. she went coucou mid winter this year.
Completely lost it. complete paranoid psychosis: sees people lurking in woods, their friends are trying to steal their land, my dad is dying, etc etc....she had to be hospitalized in the spring and she did not got out since. at least my dad can relax a bit now. he has hunting guns, the stuff that could had happened...she proposed him a suicide pact at some point. he said he wasn't quite ready
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out of the blue. never had mental issues before, we don't know what happened.
her treatments and the meds at the hospital don't seem to help much.
I'm grateful my older brother lives close to them and has experience with elderly, he his a nurse in an old age place. so that's good.
my wife is pregnant with the first grandchild of the family, so the timing is wack...
everybody is getting old, those are grownup problems.