New… Dealing with Mom’s Hallucinations

I'm so sorry that you are having to deal with this. My Dad, too, has delusions. He thinks that the authorities are coming to get him for something that's he's done. When we ask what's he's done, he says he doesn't know, but the authorities will be coming to take him away. We thought that the medication he was on was helping to stop the delusion, but it wasn't. It was still always there - he had just stopped talking about it for awhile. It resurfaced a couple of weeks ago.

Who else is helping you with your mom? I highly recommend placing hee in a facility if you all have the means. It's too much to deal with for anyone. We're going through the process to get my Dad placed now.

Send you positive thoughts and prayers for strength. You're not alone.

I live 500 miles away from my mother, who is by herself. If I got that medication, what assurance would I ever had that she would take it. She only takes the few meds she has now whenever she feels like it.

My mom has many delusions. One is very strong and it affects everything else. She believes the house she lived in 40 years ago during a brief second marriage is still hers, and she wants to be taken there to live. She has lived in several different apartments since then, one for nearly 25 years, but has no memory of that at all. All she talks about is going home to her "house". She is 91 and in memory care. We try to make her room at the facility nice, but she undoes everything I do. She packs everything up so she'll be ready when we come to take her home. She won't even leave the sheets on the bed. She gets very annoyed when I bring her anything, like clean laundry. "You don't need to be bringing that here...I'm going home today!" I don't know how to change the delusions. I think you just have to deflect and redirect and get through it as best you can. It is very stressful for all involved.

My mother has dementia but I can't tell what phase/stage she is in. My dad passed away a few months ago and that seemed to set off strange hallucinations for her. She believes he lives in the house across the street and is cold and needs a sweater. She just started on Seroquel two days ago. She seems less stressed and able to enjoy food and listening to music more than she was before Seroquel. She still thinks my dad is across the street but doesn't talk about it as much., Not sure if it's too soon to really tell if the meds are why she seems slightly better. Our doctor thought she might have had a UTI but it turned out she did not have one (she still went on the antibiotics though). Are your mom's delusions seeming to be a result of the antidepressants at all?