After all, I no longer believe in 'evil' and 'good' spirits, or even in such a thing as a sentient god or gods.
And yes, I can see how distressed she has become and remain at risk of becoming.
That it probably makes little or difference, if her distress is being caused by her belief in 'good and evil spirits.'
Or by what affective mental functioning which has been given rise to by deteriorating cerebral architecture.
It is all resulting in a very personalised altered reality. A reality which I and others cannot share with her.
But must continue to struggle with the challenge of providing her with enough reassurance.
Without too blatantly challenging her integrity. Or confirming her apparent belief that she is being made out to be 'a fool', or a 'mad person.'
After all, as with so many, if not all things, all apparent phenomena, might there not be 'a rational' explanation for what she is experiencing?
Even if that explanation, at time elapses and new information comes to light, will seem to be quite incredible?
Explanation which might or could show that a number of things, both external and internal state of mind ones.
Have come together and caused her to perceive them in the peculiar way she has perceived them, and to draw the conclusions she has drawn?
Such as the door which she has heard someone 'trying to tear off', not being hers, but a neighbour's?
Such as the telephone call she heard, having been innocuous, although she has drawn the conclusion that she is being harassed?
Such as, just as how she will persistently repeat all her perceived negative experiences. So, also, is she re-experiencing the anonymous telephone call/s as if they are new calls.
But for now, there seems to be some hope, in that her distress has abated, and that, hopefully, this apparent state of resignation or accommodation, will become the new status quo.
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