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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like she has a significant impairment/mental health disorder that she's had her whole life but the extent of it is becoming clear now your dad and the aides aren't there to compensate. I don't think her intelligence or her lack of dementia or the idea of "learned helplessness" are all that relevant to whatever this is. People don't become unable to throw out trash because someone else did it for them for years; there's something bigger going on (OCD and anxiety and something else?) and whatever set of issues are at play aren't going to go away now. I don't have good advice, just sympathy. I think solutions are more likely to lie with a psychiatrist than an OT, but it's going to be tough.[/quote] People can mask dementia. She is from a very different generation and world. No one is considering her life experiences.[/quote]
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