I have a question, or lots of questions actually. I have a family member that over the last few days has not been himself. Sunday he woke his wife up crying and telling her that he was sorry for everything that he had done wrong, yesterday he calls my husband (his brother) and is telling him that he wishes that their parents could get back together so they could be a family again (their parents have been divorced for over 30 yrs). Yesterday he walked off his job and doesnt remember doing it or how he got home. He has trouble remembering things that have happened in the last 24-48 hrs. Starts conversations and forgets what he is saying or tryin to say. He has never done drugs, drank alchohol, or even smoked a cigarette in his life. He is 43 yrs old. Today he thought he was a character on a soap opera, then he thought he was an attorney in the city he lives in, didnt want his wife talking on the phone to her sister, and kept saying all he needed to do was talk to my husband alone. They took him to the ER, CT was neg, labs and UA neg. He recognized me, my husband and his wife, but when asked who is mother was by name he said he didnt know. They admitted him tonight to lock down psych unit to run tests, as he was signing papers and answering questions, he would go back and forth knowing who he was and where he was to believing he was someone else. He told the nurse that he was having auditory and visual hallucinations. The auditory hallucinations were telling him to "pull the trigger" but when asked if they were telling him to hurt himself or someone else he said no. He kept saying that he was in this soap opera. The ER physician kept saying maybe bipolar/manic/depressive vs seizures.... said they were going to run EEG to check for seizures. He has never done things like this before and I am wondering if someone could shed a light for me of things that may have triggered this. I am a nurse but psych is not by any means my strong suit. He also told my husband and his wife when they first got to the ER that "we cant go through those doors, if we do we will die" I honestly dont have a clue...........can anyone give me any ideas or advice??????
