Tell me the name of a mental illness
My great-grandmother had a mental illness: she imagined that someone was standing behind the door with an axe, etc.; She believed in false events ("you stole my potatoes"). What's it?
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It was dementia (acquired dementia). It is often accompanied by psychotic symptoms – delusions (often simple, unsystematic, limited to everyday issues, unlike schizophrenia, where delusions are built into a whole system), hallucinations (also simple – someone is standing in the corner or outside the window, a cat runs on the floor, a man sneaks).
At this age, it could be vascular dementia (if the grandmother often had high blood pressure, had strokes), senile dementia, Alzheimer's disease or Pick's disease.
If it started at the age when she was already someone's great-grandmother,it can easily be a common senile dementia.
With dementia, people lose their sense of time, and very old memories seem fresh. Maybe someone actually stole her potatoes fifty years ago, how do you know?�The tendency to paranoid delusions is also a common symptom.
But psychiatric diagnoses are not made retroactively and in the absence of the patient, of course.
If I still remember the course of Forensic Psychiatry correctly, then this is something from the group of chronic mental disorders, that is, from the group of diseases that are long-lasting, difficult to cure, continuous or paroxysmal, and tend to progress. Most likely, this is schizophrenia.