When They See What Isn't There

My [Relationship] [Initials] ([Their Diagnosis]) has started [What they experience]. It happens [When It Happens]. How they react: [How They React]. What I've been doing: [What You've Been Doing]. Help me: 1) explain in plain words the difference between a hallucination, a delusion, and a misperception (a coat on a chair that looks like a person), and which mine sounds like, 2) give me a response for each that doesn't argue and doesn't pretend — I don't want to lie to my mother, but I don't want to fight her either, 3) tell me the changes to light, mirrors, TV, and noise that make these less likely, 4) tell me clearly which of these are 'call the doctor today' — sudden onset, after a new medication, with a fever, seeing things that frighten them — because sometimes this is an infection or a drug, not the dementia, 5) give me a sentence for myself for the moment she tells me there's a man in the bathroom. Don't diagnose.