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left handed corrections
by cic05, Jan 10, 2009 04:35PM
hello
my husband of 46 years old is starting to show some strange behavioural tendencies. He is having a lot of trouble expresing himself in plain language, and often says the complete opposite to what he means (says 'big' instead of 'small', or 'far' instead of 'near'). He doesn't realise what he is saying a lot of the time, until I correct him. Otherwise, he shows no, and never has shown any, sign of mental problems (and this sort of thing is not genetic, at least not in his immediate family).
After doing a bit of research, I found that there may be a direct link between this sort of behaviour and the fact that my husband, as a child at pimary school, was corrected for left-handedness and forced to write with his right hand. He stuttered at the beginning, which passed after a few months.
I would like to know whether I am right in thinking that this is the reason to his strange behaviour, and also what can be done to help him with it.
Thanks very much
my husband of 46 years old is starting to show some strange behavioural tendencies. He is having a lot of trouble expresing himself in plain language, and often says the complete opposite to what he means (says 'big' instead of 'small', or 'far' instead of 'near'). He doesn't realise what he is saying a lot of the time, until I correct him. Otherwise, he shows no, and never has shown any, sign of mental problems (and this sort of thing is not genetic, at least not in his immediate family).
After doing a bit of research, I found that there may be a direct link between this sort of behaviour and the fact that my husband, as a child at pimary school, was corrected for left-handedness and forced to write with his right hand. He stuttered at the beginning, which passed after a few months.
I would like to know whether I am right in thinking that this is the reason to his strange behaviour, and also what can be done to help him with it.
Thanks very much
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Perhaps your husband has some arthritis or old injury that is bothering him, and he's just not talking about it. Pain medications of varying kinds can help that a lot. By the way, I have been told by my neurologist (I have spinal injury) that I do not have Alzheimer's. But I sometimes wonder if I have Dementia! Anyhow, I'm so used to the way I mix things up, and my family and close friends are, that you might say I don't mind being that way. But if I had to testify in a court of law, I'd either have to have a lawyer with me or be excused as an unreliable witness!
A neurologist is the best doc to investigate his situation, to rule out mental diseases like Alzheimer's and Dementia, and they also can give medication not only for pain, but also for maintaining a more alert state. I might add that keeping up with exercise, sleeping well, and eating right will help with whatever is wrong. Hope this helps a little.