To clarify my earlier question, my mother admitted herself to a mental hospital for delusions and being paranoid. She does not have dementia or alzheimers. I live with her and know for a fact she took 2 codeines, 4 over the counter sleeping pils, klonopin 2mg. (tranquilizer), nortriptyline (antidepressant) and trazadone. The trazadone, nortriptyline, and klonopin (at 1/2 mg.) were prescribed. When she went into the hospital for pneumonia her iv bag was dripping too fast. She complained to nurse that she was dizzy and nauceous. It was lowered. The day after leaving hospital, she started complaining she wasn't feeling right in her head, Said she couldn't sleep. So progressively she added more tranquilizers (2 mg.) and sleeping pills (4 over the counter nightly) and 2 codeine/vicadin to the mix, which affected her brain that started accusing me of things which did not exist. She eventually said she wanted to go to a mental hospital for her depression. I know it is from the mixture of pills. Her brain got overloaded with these pills and created hostility and making trouble such as if I asked a question she would ask me me why I asked it. There was so much fighting in here you have no idea. I would tell her (in a rational tone), your resistance is building up and that's why you need more pills to fall asleep. She eventually checked herself into the hospital (voluntarily). In there, she thought everyone was a worker (even the patients). She thought they put something in the water. If I tried to tell her, Mommy, please don't think those thoughts because they're not true, she scratched my arm when an aide came walking by because they were all spies and even through my whispering they could hear me. She was put on remeron (side effects complaints from her), then lamictal (no good), then the antipsychotic drug abilify. She saw a magazine in the day room with info on abilify and told her doctor she had a lot of the side effects listed. Then he put her on risperdal (antipsychotoc drug). With this drug (after being in hospital for 5 weeks) she was discharged and has to attend a 6 week program at their gero partial hospital. This past Saturday, she took 4 klonopins (total 4 mg.) and 2 codeines. The psychiatrist at the hospital wrote prescription to take 1 klonopin (1 mg.) at night. Yes, the accusations returned and I was alone in my despair and not knowing if it is right to tell the psychiatrist at day program what she did. When she looks totally normal for the sake of the program, then is with me on weekend in what she thinks is a stable mind ( after taking extra drugs and making accusations of what I don't know the hell what she's talking about) and I try and be rational (without fighting) and she tells me "I know what you did" and I didn't do anything, my question is if it's right to tell the psychiatrist at the gero partial unit that my mother is doing what she's doing. Nobody from her 5 hour day program has ever contacted me to see how she is doing. Am I wrong to "snitch" on my mother for her own good or will they tell her I called or will they readmit her against her will (which I'm petrified would happen). Can they readmit her against her will? She will not let the p word (paranoid) come out of my mouth.
