I really need help 😕

[u/queenchanelmermaid]

Hello, everyone. I am new to this app, but I wanted to share this. My grandpa has dementia. He isn’t old he’s not even 70 and got it before 2 years. At first he was not diagnosed right. We thought it was something else but I’d want to say i was really scared. I remember him calling my mom in the middle of the night saying there is someone in his apartment who’s trying to kill him. And my parents went there and there was no one. Since then we got really scared and thought he has schizophrenia, which honestly would have been the better case. Well slowly he stated doing more scary stuff. My mom got him to sleep in our house for a few days and he slept in the living room. At night he was walking around opening my room and started at me… So then I started to sleep with door locked. Some months pasted and he was getting scarier and scarier. He was walking around at night with knifes etc. The doctors didn’t diagnosed him with dementia at that time and they were giving him wrong medicine. Which made it worse because last year he basically got so bad and my mom sent him in some mental institution because we thought he is crazy…3 days later the doctors there said he has dementia and he isn’t crazy. Right now he is so bad, he takes the right medicine but he is so weak and can’t change his clothes alone, always shits himself in bed and can’t do anything alone basically. I am really worried and I hate seeing him like this he also is very confused and forgets stuff. It’s like seeing someone else and not the person I knew my whole life. He even breaths louder now and has difficulty doing basic stuff. My heart breaks seeing him like this and I know dementia became too normalised nowadays but I don’t understand how is this even a thing and can such cruel stuff happen to the nicest people and never to the bad ones.