Senile psychosis

•    On one of the days when I was receiving patients in a
repaired in-house psychotherapy office, a nurse came up to me and asked me to
examine her mom at home since her mother has been suffering from a neuropsychiatric illness and no one could help her. Six months ago her mother started losing memory, memory was deteriorating every month, it was progressing. Against this background she stopped reacting to relatives,   stopped paying attention to them. Sometimes she would call them by other names. She believed she lived in the past.  In fact,  she lived entirely in a past reality,

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talked with long-dead people, in the afternoon

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could fall asleep for a short period of time, but

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was very active at night, talking to someone,

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wandered around the house, looking for something, etc. It was impossible to calm her down. At the beginning of the disease she was treated

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a neuropathologist for three months , and in the recent months

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Having learnt about it all from her

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daughters, as a psychiatrist I realized that there was a case  of senile psychosis development, and so healing her with regular medicines made no sense.  Since I already

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worked as a psychotherapist, then decided to apply

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psychotherapeutic treatments. I replied to their request for help and soon found the patient sleeping. For carrying out a

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more full-fledged treatment, I decided to cancel everything - all the

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medications prescribed by previous physicians.

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Sitting down with her, I felt her pulse - it was of a good

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quality. When being addressed a patient's voice

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reacted but did not wake up (was muttering something)

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and reacted to feeling the pulse as well.

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After sitting for a while near her, I left, saying,

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so that the nurse (daughter) of the patient would come to me tomorrow

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and I'd come and do the first session with her

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psychotherapy. However, the next day and all

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other days she did not come to me. In two

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weeks I accidentally met her on the street and asked

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why she didn't come to me?

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To which she replied,

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that she was grateful and that her mom was fine. I

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asked her to tell more about it.

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The nurse said that after my visit, her mother

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fell asleep even deeper and slept for three days,

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and when she woke up, she regained consciousness and behaved

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as if there was no psychosis and  she did not remember anything

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what happened to her for six months of the disease,

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and if so, then my help was no longer needed. On

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that I noticed that it was possible for her to come in and at least

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say "thank you" and tell what happened, because

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a psychotherapist should be aware of the results of his

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activities.