lef93
17-06-18, 23:04
Hi,
My over worrying doesn't just transmit to myself but other people and their health too. Recently I have been worried about my mum, she is 59 and I have no idea how long this has been happening for but I have definitely become most conscious of it over the past month and it is worrying me.
I have noticed that my mum gets words mixed up a lot. I, again have no idea how long this has been happening for but I seem to notice it on an every-other-day basis. When it happens she realises it and often corrects herself but it alarms me a little. Recently she called the house scaffolding a trampoline and randomly went 'why did I say that?, she gets celebrities names mixed up a lot. Recently, we were watching tv and she called simon cowell 'Dudley' and again said 'why did I call him that?', and phrases, such as 'life is like a bowl of cherries' instead of chocolates. She called the greasy spoon 'greasy joes' the other day, and sometimes she gets me, my brothers, and my pets names mixed up, but is very quick to correct herself in this case. I didn't really consider this too alarming at first, as I (24) sometimes do this myself, but the fact that I notice it quite frequently has concerned me.
Today she mentioned twice how the food tasted really nice and again I also sometimes repeat myself for the sake of saying something so I didn't really consider it odd, but then she turned around and asked if she had already told us about a story she had mentioned earlier, of which she had, and I think because I am very conscious of all the scary diseases out there that can cause this repetition stuff it really freaked me out.
Other than getting words/names/phrases mixed up I haven't really noticed much else, in fact (at times) I feel my mum is more coherent than me and often ends up remembering stuff for the rest of us when we forget to do things etc.
Just under a year ago my mum told me about how she was dealing with an ear infection, and how last summer it was affecting her memory. She told me, funny enough, about how she would often look at us and have to run through a list of names in her head until she got to the right one, and how it scared her but a few months later she was fine. She told me about how she once woke up and was really confused and disorientated. At the moment she is complaining about these ear and sinus problems again, and I wondered if there was such a thing as brain fog related to ear infections/ear issues.
My mum also is pretty much always sleep deprived. She often deliberately goes to bed past 12 and may get up at 6-8, and she spends the whole day working/going shopping etc. so she is always on her feet. I know myself that when I am tired I don't function too well mentally so I did wonder if fatigue could be a contributing factor.
I think it is quite obvious that I am concerned about some of the more serious diseases like dementia. I know that nobody here can give a medical diagnosis but I suppose I am just wondering if my worries are valid about something that seems glaringly off or whether these things can happen but it might just be worth checking anyway. In other words, are things like these a sure sign of serious disease or can they be other things too? I often find myself jumping to the worst case scenario with my anxiety and it is difficult to be rational.
It is sort of a hard one because if a parent has ever had a health problem I have just confessed my worries to their face, but obviously with something like this I cannot approach it in this way. I don't talk to my dad as much as my mum and I just feel that if I mentioned it to my dad or siblings that they might think I am a bit nuts, so I am just sort of scared and worried with no idea what to do and I can't tell If I am blowing things out of proportion or not.
My over worrying doesn't just transmit to myself but other people and their health too. Recently I have been worried about my mum, she is 59 and I have no idea how long this has been happening for but I have definitely become most conscious of it over the past month and it is worrying me.
I have noticed that my mum gets words mixed up a lot. I, again have no idea how long this has been happening for but I seem to notice it on an every-other-day basis. When it happens she realises it and often corrects herself but it alarms me a little. Recently she called the house scaffolding a trampoline and randomly went 'why did I say that?, she gets celebrities names mixed up a lot. Recently, we were watching tv and she called simon cowell 'Dudley' and again said 'why did I call him that?', and phrases, such as 'life is like a bowl of cherries' instead of chocolates. She called the greasy spoon 'greasy joes' the other day, and sometimes she gets me, my brothers, and my pets names mixed up, but is very quick to correct herself in this case. I didn't really consider this too alarming at first, as I (24) sometimes do this myself, but the fact that I notice it quite frequently has concerned me.
Today she mentioned twice how the food tasted really nice and again I also sometimes repeat myself for the sake of saying something so I didn't really consider it odd, but then she turned around and asked if she had already told us about a story she had mentioned earlier, of which she had, and I think because I am very conscious of all the scary diseases out there that can cause this repetition stuff it really freaked me out.
Other than getting words/names/phrases mixed up I haven't really noticed much else, in fact (at times) I feel my mum is more coherent than me and often ends up remembering stuff for the rest of us when we forget to do things etc.
Just under a year ago my mum told me about how she was dealing with an ear infection, and how last summer it was affecting her memory. She told me, funny enough, about how she would often look at us and have to run through a list of names in her head until she got to the right one, and how it scared her but a few months later she was fine. She told me about how she once woke up and was really confused and disorientated. At the moment she is complaining about these ear and sinus problems again, and I wondered if there was such a thing as brain fog related to ear infections/ear issues.
My mum also is pretty much always sleep deprived. She often deliberately goes to bed past 12 and may get up at 6-8, and she spends the whole day working/going shopping etc. so she is always on her feet. I know myself that when I am tired I don't function too well mentally so I did wonder if fatigue could be a contributing factor.
I think it is quite obvious that I am concerned about some of the more serious diseases like dementia. I know that nobody here can give a medical diagnosis but I suppose I am just wondering if my worries are valid about something that seems glaringly off or whether these things can happen but it might just be worth checking anyway. In other words, are things like these a sure sign of serious disease or can they be other things too? I often find myself jumping to the worst case scenario with my anxiety and it is difficult to be rational.
It is sort of a hard one because if a parent has ever had a health problem I have just confessed my worries to their face, but obviously with something like this I cannot approach it in this way. I don't talk to my dad as much as my mum and I just feel that if I mentioned it to my dad or siblings that they might think I am a bit nuts, so I am just sort of scared and worried with no idea what to do and I can't tell If I am blowing things out of proportion or not.