[fxyfxy]

Hi,
I need help, I have some questions that I suspect my mother has a psychological disorder.

My mother is suffering from epilsepsy caused by brain virus 10 years ago, so since then she gets seizures at least once a month.

But her psychological behavior through out the years, are becoming uncontrollable. She used to be fine.

Now, she often threatens to kill herself, and gets excessively angry for the most ridiculous reason, such as someone in the house accidentally splattered a bit of water on the sink, she would be extremely enraged and say ridiculous things that are absolutely out of the context/jump out the window.
She does not have any friend now, since the ones that she had, she fought a lot, and everyone kinda hates her (she is 57 years old), in fact she has a problem with almost every friend, practically saying, her common sense is lost.

Like right now, she has been missing for 2 days, and she sends money from her bank account to me saying "keep the money, take care of your brother and father, i'm going away on a train, you will not be able to find me, goodbye", and says ridiculous stuff like those, JUST because yesterday my brother hurried her to go home because he could not hold his pee (he was going out with my mom.)

This doesnt happen once, or twice or 20, but it happens over and over and over and over again. Usually after 2 days she would be extremely sorry, but it happens over and over again. She is extremely extremely kind when she is kinda in her "normal" state, but when she isnt, when she has no common sense, she would go crazy and do ridiculous stuff. She goes to church so often, and religious, but her commons sense she has none.

When things dont go her way/someone disagrees with her when she is not in the mood, she would throw things in public to us, and gets angry or shout in public.

I am pretty sure she has a psychological problem right? Our family has been wondering for years but we are just too "afraid" since we do not want to assume our mother is "crazy", or maybe we are in denial. My father is extremely patient.

Your help is very needed. Thank you.

[Skeezyks]

Hello fxyfxy: I see you've posted this twice & did receive one reply to the other post. Since these posts appear to be your first posts here on PC, I will say... welcome to PsychCentral... from the Skeezyks! I hope you find whatever amount of time you spend here to be of benefit.

As was indicated in the reply you received to your other post of this Thread, we here on PC cannot diagnose your mother. Anything we might suggest is simply going to be a stab in the dark, so to speak... just a guess. However, I will go out on a limb here, so to speak, & make a couple of observations. You mentioned that your mom had a brain virus 10 years ago & has since developed seizures. One of the hallmarks of traumatic brain injury is the loss of what are often referred to as: "executive functions"... the ability to control impulses.

We all have impulses to do things that we would not, under normal circumstances, want to do. However, we have the ability to understand that these impulses are things we don't want to do & we have the ability to not act upon them. Persons who have had traumatic brain injuries sometimes lose this ability. My thinking, from a lay-person's perspective, is this may be what has happened to your mother. Either the brain infection or the seizures, or both, have damaged the areas of her brain that provide for impulse control. As a result, she simply says, or does, whatever comes to mind. There is no filter. Angry outbursts are also pretty typical for persons who have sustained traumatic brain injuries.

So, having written that, I will once again emphasize that it is not our role here to diagnose anyone & what I have written is simply a guess. However I did, years ago, at times work with people who had sustained traumatic brain injuries. What you describe sounds familiar. Please, if you can, have your mother seen by a physician who is knowledgeable with regard to the treatment of seizure conditions & brain damage. I send you & your family my best wishes...

[Spaceyspace]

I would like to suggest that she makes an appointment with her neurologist asap and have a family member go along to discuss all of this. These things. Brain injury can cause behavioral problems like what you described but only someone qualified can tell you what's going on with your mom.