Bri, so glad things are a bit better.  My husband didn't bother his clothes
so can't help there.
Gwen

Hello all,

Things are going along pretty well.  The medication the doctor has given my
brother-in-law seems to be working.

My brother-in-law seems to wake up during the night and starts looking
through all the drawers, pulling clothes out and leaving them on top of the
dresser.  some of the clothes he puts under his pillow.
Have any of your dear relatives gone through this?

Thank you,
Bri

Hi Brianna,

My mother in law was always taking her clothes out and trying this and that
on, then leaving everything out on the bed.   It drove me CRAZY.   I almost
had my husband put a special locking doorknob on the closet that could only
be opened with a key, but I didn't do it.   She went to daycare every day
and that was helpful having her out of the house for those few hours.
Finally she stopped all the rummaging in the closet.   For some reason she
never got into rummaging in the bureau drawers, only the closet.

What your sister might do is to discreetly move most of his clothing out of
that room, and leave a couple of drawers with just one or two things in it,
and put the rest in another room, somewhere he doesn't realize his stuff is.
That way she can just bring in the clothes she wants him to wear.    She
could start by only putting the new laundry in the new location.

Another thing is that he may be sleeping too much during the day, which is
why he is so restless at night.   We gave my mother in law a Tylenol PM at
bedtime every evening.   It wasn't much but it did help a little to keep her
from roaming at night.   We also had to put a special safety lock on the
door to the outside.   Several times we caught her trying to leave the house
to just go outside in the wee hours of the night.     We live in a heavily
forested area, it could have been a disaster had she gone out.

We'd hear her fiddling with the door chain, and hubby would gently come over
to her and ask her what she wanted and gently guide her back to bed.
Sometimes she had simply forgotten where her bedroom was.   One time we
found her sleeping on the sofa in the family room in the basement!   It got
so that she couldn't find her way back to her room which was just across the
hall from the bathroom!   That was when we decided he had to get up with her
each and every time to make sure all was well.

My MIL has 16 drawers in her room and would (and still) periodically
tears through a couple to look for something or to "organize" them.
If this type behavior gets too far out of control a small dose of
Valium can sometimes help break this behavior cycle. A valium might
also help you get a well deserved night of sleep.  good luck,   AW