Are These Symptoms Normal for Depression in the Elderly or It Was Something Else?

Question by Bugsie: Are these symptoms normal for depression in the elderly or it was something else?
My granny died of a miocardiac heart attack at 64, produced by the water from the congestive heart disease, but she had a huge depression as well for 3 years, after my grandpa died. She didn’t want to take any pills, was hiding them from my mother and wanted to die….she was also aggressive towards the woman we hired to make sure she takes her pills. She even had a mild stroke at one point and she had a paresis on her upper lip.

She was scared that someone will break into her house……. and at one point also, she came to visit us and was in a very bad mood still because of grandpa, and she stood up at one point, left the room with no explanation……..and then she came back without saying anything. This was seen just once.

She didn’t have memory problems, although in the very end, before she died, she didn’t my mention my little nephew, and she was asking all the time about him before……..but she always asked about my mother, sister, me, etc………

A year before she died in a neuropshyciatric hospital she was just eating, sleeping and watching TV, she had no interest to live. While she didn’t abandon the pills completely, she had one period when she was better, and when the will to live returned in some way (even though she was still not the same as when grandpa was alive), but when she decided to abandon them, her health deteriorated.

Before she died of a heart attack, it didn’t look like she will die at all. But if she was taking the pills she would still be alive.

Now, I am interested to know, if these are the symptoms of depression or something else in the background in her? Is it common for them to….wander around at some point if the depression is huge, and MAYBE forget to ask about a family member who was 2 years old at that time (but ask for the others)?

Oh yeah, and her mother also had problems with nerves when she died (and with heart), but she was 72 when she died, she was older than my granny.

Also, is that one time “wandering” (I don’t know how to call it) normal when someone is severely depressed as well as not mentioning one family member that you used to mention before (my little nephew)?

Best answer:

Answer by geessewereabove
Now a days way too many drugs never help the person, only the drug companies. Drug companies are controlling way too much; even making up conditions that do NOT exist, to sell more drugs. Being older, she can remember how much safer people were before this became a “get everyone an all drugs you can” life. IF it had happened to me, I would have done the same!
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Answer by Amin K
She was suffering from what is called a “situational depression” which then culminated to a “severe depression” after the death of your grandfather.

This type of depression is not hereditary. She more than likely felt totally alone, even though she had your family as support. To lose someone with whom you have experienced so much during your life time is something that can never be replaced no matter how much others do try to do.

The fact that she did not want to be without your grandfather is most probably the reason that she was not taking her medication and resented the insistence of others that she take it.

It is obvious that she was lost without him and now no longer grieves for him as she did while she was alive.

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