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My FIL was diagnosed about 12 years ago and has been in residential care for about 18 months. In the last week he has started experiencing hallucinations and severe confusion and has gone from having some slight independence to needing 24 hour supervision.

My wife believes that the doctors will treat these new symptoms, and in a few days he'll be back in the care home and carrying on normal.

I fear this is a tipping point, I'm worried that she's going to discover her father will never again be the man he was, and effectively she'll never be able to talk to the father she knew again. I'm afraid this is an irreversible step in his decline, and I'm getting ready to support her if this turns out to be the case.

Am I catastrophising? Or does this sound likely, from the collective experience of this subreddit?

My son is 9. He has ASD and ADHD, and every day he tells us he can't stop thinking about death. It scares him, keeps him awake at night, and makes him cry. It isn't a passing thought, it's hours of dwelling on the finality of death.

When he was younger he used to tell us he sometimes had bad thoughts, and when they entered his mind he couldn't shake them. Usually it was that someone might die, or he might be hurt. But that hasn't happened for a year or more. And now this.

It's been going on like this for about two weeks. Have any other parents encountered this? How did you deal with it?

My son is 9. He has ADHD and mild ASD, and every day he tells us he can't stop thinking about death. It scares him, keeps him awake at night, and makes him cry. It isn't a passing thought, it's hours of dwelling on the finality of death.

When he was younger he used to tell us he sometimes had bad thoughts, and when they entered his mind he couldn't shake them. Usually it was that someone might die, or he might be hurt. But that hasn't happened for a year or more. And now this.

It's been going on like this for about two weeks. Have any other parents encountered this? How did you deal with it?