My oldest sister is currently caring for our mother in her home. My mom has recently become obsessed about bugs. She was in the hospital not long ago and said she saw bed bugs in the bed. My nephew was there with her. She tells everyone that she showed him the bugs. He says that never happened. She got so upset at this situation that she insisted that I take her to live with my other sister. I did this a few weeks ago.
Now she's calling me crying that she can't stay there because there are bugs everywhere. She said they are crawling everywhere all over clothes, her, the floor. Nobody in the house has seen these bugs. She caught some in jars but nothing is there. She becomes belligerent and curses at us for not seeing them.
We are at our wits end. I think something deeper is wrong but I don't know how to find out what and then talk to my siblings about it.
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Usually our brain will get use to these specs and not notice them but with dementia maybe that doesn't happen and your Mom is really believing she is seeing bugs. Best thing to do is pretend that you see these bugs, too... this will hopefully calm her down until she asks for the pest control to come out.
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