Now the senile old man is lashing out randomly. Worse and worse.
Things like this make him look smaller and smaller.
There is a reason for this...Slo Joe is in Fugue state: Fugue state
Dissociative fugue, formerly fugue state or psychogenic fugue, is a mental and behavioral disorder classified as a Dissociative disorder and a Dissociative [conversion] disorder.
The disorder is a rare psychiatric abnormality characterized by reversible amnesia for one's own personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality
His behavior is typical of all the brands of dementia I have experienced and particularly Alzheimer’s.
Negative character traits become more profound as inhibitions fall.
Strangely compliance to please increases as the patient knows he is losing control and compliance is one last quality to prove he can still function to please his keepers. Notice the way he said I can’t take any questions on Afghanistan? Trying ot comply and afraid he will get in trouble if he does not.
Anger grows born out of frustration.
Sleepiness.
Fixed stare.
The reasoning power of a toddler. Getting him to understand something is impossible.
Can’t make up his mind, wants to go to Delaware last week. On and off but a lot of that was probably staff trying to reason with him and not very successfully.
Wants to go home where he is familiar and safe.
Joe is well into the long good-bye. The patient is absent from our cognitive world long before he finally checks out.
Joe and his gang have not wrecked the country alone but they are pulling the handle on the toilet to flush the mess away.