My mum has a history of some MH issues . I’ve been her carer since I was a child . Dunno what you’d diagnose it as , but she has been through trauma and now takes NEAD seizures (I’m not sure if that’s still the right term). So basically she has seizures where she doesn’t go fully unconscious although to all would appear to be , they look like epilepsy (generalised/tonic clonic) but they aren’t so far as we know . Psychology said it’s like a coping mechanism , like her brain reboots occasionally . Because it’s been happening such a long time it’ll probably never stop now .
Anyway she has had them for about 40 odd years maybe longer . She had a lot of intensive therapy before I was born and ECT mid 80s which she says made her feel a lot worse . I think at the time of having the ECT she had a CT scan which said she had some sort of brain damage from parental abuse .
She recently had been having issues with memory and processing (for about two years or so) so neuro said , do another CT and see what’s happening . That CT has come back 100% normal , so far so good . She got the letter yesterday telling her .
Last night she had a very strange episode in which she was - appeared to be - fully conscious but very confused , talking about places and people I couldn’t remember and insisting on something to do with having gone to yoga with a friend recently . When I said that she hadn’t been to yoga since I was fourteen or so , and certainly not at all before that (that I remembered) she got quite distressed and insisted she walked up x road to yoga every week .
Eventually I realised she was talking about the house before I was born , and the friend was someone from the 1980s , and she hasn’t spoken to her in about 30 years .
Tried to calm mum down explaining we were in 2019 , a different village , that 1980s were a long time ago etc . Showed her street from front door etc .
I ended up ringing 111 as she was very distressed and I couldn’t settle her (and slightly concerned there was something more going on) , they said sounded psychiatric not anything more concerning and got a CPN to ring . CPN talked her down enough to get to bed at 3am . They said maybe the letter brought back memories of having ECT or something , has brought old upset to the surface?
Seemed normal this morning but saying she’s frightened it will happen again - she thinks she’s had the same once or twice before where she’s suddenly remembered things she blocked out .
I’ve managed to get the surgery to ask GP to ring her today but I can’t figure out what on earth happened , if that’s disassociation or if it’s like some sort of dementia or something ? She’s only 53 (I’m in my twenties). She’s fast asleep in bed just now whilst I tidy up a bit.