Typically hallucinations are associated with conditions such as schizophrenia, dementia, delirium (acute confusional state), or side effects from medications or street drugs. In many cases hallucinations require treatment with antipsychotic medications. However, there are some circumstances where treatment with such medications is unnecessary.
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Many correctional systems classify their inmates as “elderly” beginning at age 55. Some do so as early as age 50.
Why?
In general, inmates age faster than the non-incarcerated. The stress of incarceration, substance abuse, and the lack of access to medical care before incarceration are some of the more significant contributors to the accelerated aging.
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I’ve always been fascinated by terminally ill patients who are near the end but have important life events they want to be sure to make it to. These could be weddings, graduations, birthday parties, long-planned vacations, or simply reuniting with family or friends they haven’t seen in a long time.
What surprises me most is the fact that so many of them make it to the events that were so important to them. It seems that they somehow do not “let” themselves die before they accomplish their goal(s).
What do all such people have in common?
They all have a purpose. And this purpose seems at least temporarily to give them the will to live.
I’ve always found the concept of having a purpose in life to be interesting. Without a purpose, why are we alive?
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