When a parent develops a false memory, even though most of the time they're coherent aside from some normal memory lapse, does that false memory ever go away?
Last year he had a false memory and it was due to a urinary infection. He eventually stopped bringing it up.
Well he just recently had another one that my mother is still alive even though she died in 2002.
Strangely both of them seem to revolve around my mother.
I told the doctor about it and they brought him in today for labs.
I'm hoping it's another infection.
But do they ever go away? The false memories?
I hope the handle is just what you were looking for. They make operating the handle so much easier.
MIL came back and we managed to get him into a mental health facility where after a few weeks stay and some new meds, he was a changed man for the last year of his life. He was actually pleasant to be around and we enjoyed a lot of long talks that just didn't happen before.
And as far as the financial problems, we had to move in with a friend of mine from my past. Unfortunately it's up here in Virginia outside of Quantico and that has apparently fueled additional false memories to the original.
Now he thinks he's talked to the FBI and they were supposed to come and test my mother's ashes in the urn because he thinks it's dirt.
This morning he told me that while I was gone for a day and a half (had to go back to Florida to get my car) that the an FBI agent came by and did something on his computer that let him see mom talking to some guy outside her brothers house in Alabama.
I think these are actually dreams that are somehow being stored in his memory so that he thinks they happened because he also said that I was using him as a punching bag yesterday. I asked what he meant and he said there's no point in going into it if he has to say it. So I think he means that I was taking something out on him or something like that. I explained that I just got back this morning at 2:30 am and asked if he remembered me telling him that I was leaving on Monday for Florida. I guess he did because he said well maybe it was a dream.
The hardest part of these is when he wants me to do something to validate these false memories so he can show me they're true. But even if I do and it shows he's wrong either I'm contacting the wrong person or they're conspiring with me to make him out to be a liar or something to that effect.
Ignoring them or redirecting isn't too bad it's when he wants me to validate somehow that is infuriating because when he does that he doesn't let it go.
The only saving grace is he's not constantly harping on them.