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I have a family member who is mentally ill, so this sounds painfully familiar.
Medication can often control these problems but it takes a lot of trial and error to find the right combination and dosage of drugs that will help. Bishop Pelotte needs a lot of prayers and professional help.
Maybe God will use this for good, if the Bishop can recover and then offer his experience as encouragement for others who suffer in this way. It is a horrible, horrible burden both for the patients and their families.
Exactly. There is no shame here. But there might be negligence (forgive me if I sould like a lawyer) if the competent authority does not intervene promptly in this case.
don’t normally respond to news stories but the story about Bishop Pelotte sounds exactly like my father’s illness. He suffered from Lewy-Body Dementia or
Parksinson’s Dementia. He has a sister that is beginning to see people in her house. My father was brilliant and his condition varied from minute to minute
or day to day. He had vivid dreams and they were as real to him as life. He also made a police report about cult members (3 feet tall) in his house. These patients only see people or animals. My dear father passed away in March. I miss our talks so much, even if they were not my reality. My father also suffered from falls and blood pressure fluctuates as in Shy-Drager. It is hard to see a story like this, it could have easily have been about my father and these patients are aware that things are not right. There is no cure and most medication tends to make it worse. It is a cruel disease that worsens with time. My father suffered from RBD for 15 years before he started seeing things.
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Angela Wyatt
Great post Angela. Thank you, for all of us.
Angela, thank you so much. Your family is in my prayers and I hope anyone else who reads your comment resolves to do the same.
We haven't really had an active Bishop here in Gallup for a very long time. Vocations seems to have pretty much dried up. I am sorry about the Bishop's condition, but I hope and pray that Rome gets a new and a good Bishop here fast.
I hope this doesn't seem flippant, or as if I am making light of serious psychological/ physiological ailments such as those mentioned in the comments, but there is an interesting correlation between these descriptions and those of people who believe that they've been involved in "alien" abductions and close encounters of the third kind and the like. Little people, intruding in the home, wearing strange masks, etc. See "Communion" for what I am talking about.
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