We haven't heard from her in a while, Chris.  I wondered too.

Hi Dancing Queen
I have not posted for some time as I felt that I was not welcome here,
but I have been back every now and then to read and to try to
understand what my husband is going through.

He had a diagnosis of DLB but because he felt that he was well and
nothing was happening he trashed his hospital room and got himself
sectioned uinder the Mental Health Act, because he felt he would 'have
his day in Court' which would result in him being released.

He threw his cup of tea over me and accused me of 'setting him up' and
then held Police at bay for 3 hours with broken fluro tubes until
eventually they pushed him to the ground, handcuffed him and sedated
him.

has a secure ward and he is still there tonight, although he is
appealing his order tomorrow before a Tribunal.

After what I am told was exhaustive testing they have now decided he
doesn't have DLB but may have a dementia caused by the use of
benzodiazapam for over 30 years but they feel the main cause of his
behaviour problems are a mental health issue.

So now they plan on moving him to a psychiatric hospital, although he
doesn't know it yet, as they know he will go ballistic to be
transferred back to the hospital he was in before Christmas, although a
different part.

He is still paranoid and dellusional and aggressive and this very day
threatened to have a barrister and a police officer on my doorstep if I
did not give him his wallet and his bank statements.

In the time he has been in the current facility he waxs and wans from
being so sweet and loving and wanting to book a holiday for us, to
ringing me demanding I bring him this and that, including an order to
pack all his belongings up and send them "Post Haste" to the hospital.

Problem is if they discharge him, which they apparently do before
transferring him, there is some chance they may not section him in the
new hospital they  transfer him to.

I have told them if he is released before he is well enough on their
heads be it. I have warned them he is not rational and is paranoid and
delusional and aggressive, which they have already seen many times.

They do say he has dementia, just not LBD and that with time and total
withdrawal of benzos his dementia may be reversible to some extent,
although they are not sure of that, particularly since he does have
moderate atrophy of the frontal and temperal lobes.

They also told me that they believe his behaviour is conscious to some
extent and that he can modify it if he wants to. I also have some
doubts about that, however I am not a psychiatrist.

I told him today that he needs to let me know when he is being
discharged so I can move out of this house, to which his response was
to accuse me of moving in with a friend. That friend is someone I met
on the net who I have never met in rela life and have been chatting to
for nearly 10 years. He lives in Canada with his fiancee.

I am sorry that this is such a long answer to a short question but I am
standing resolute that unless and until the aggression and other
symptoms are reduced with medication I will not live in the same house.

So the drama continues since early December 2005 to now. I do wonder
whether their final diagnosis has anything to do with the fact that all
their other patients are very elderly and are probably much easier to
handle than him and isn't it convenient that they now say it is
primarily a mental health issue

Please do not get me wrong, I certainly do not WANT him to have LBD but
I do want his to be diagnosed correctly and treated appropriately.

I am so tired of all of this.

Thanks for thinking of me

Liz