As a Care-giver for someone that suffers from Dementia I find that there is a pattern to their delusions.
Blood pressure increases about a week prior to peak (Paramedics say this is due to the stress of the delusion!).
Anger and paranoia at Care-giver becomes great.
Peak – Great unbelievable Delusion – In my case of the missing baby!
Paranoia becomes only reality.
Can no longer live or exist with live-in Care-giver.
The patient will listen to reason only when every voice is in agreement, so the patient doesn’t completely loss touch with reality, but if you or anyone cosigns the patient's delusion (meaning any point or part of it) the patient will not listen to reason even if a thousand people are trying to convince them of the truth! It only takes one to cosign and the patient becomes lost in the delusion.
“An idea is like a virus it can grow to shape or destroy you! It is a chance! Your world is not real!” - Inception by Christopher Nolan, Warner Brothers 2010.
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