Can anyone tell me why old people repeat the same shit over and over again?

Hey Op...why do you keep repeating that video game over and over?

Hey Op...why do you keep repeating that video game over and over?




"I don't know about you, but
I need to see videos over and
over so I can understand what
is going on. At my age I have
trouble remembering things like
where I put my dentures, if I
need a new box of Depend diapers,
important things like that. With
all this new fangled Internet
stuff I easily forget what I see,
so I have to watch it again, and
I click on each video, surprised
it appears to be the same, but
glad I can see it again. Like TV
commercials, this repeating over
and over helps me remember to buy
the useless crap they're selling!"

And over and over and over again? I'm talking to my grandma right now, and she keeps talking about the same thing over and over and has been for the pat 40 minutes, and I'm just like "yep", "Uh-huh", "okay", "oh". I don't want to be rude, but seriously I want to swan dive out the window right now.

Well I probably won't be around, but it will be funny as HELL when you get old, punk/punkette!



I strive to committ myself to never impose upon my kids or grandkids what I went through, and what I am going through. I want to be a wisened old crone who speaks very few words, but what words I do speak, will carry meaning. That's my hope for myself when I am old.

And over and over and over again? I'm talking to my grandma right now, and she keeps talking about the same thing over and over and has been for the pat 40 minutes, and I'm just like "yep", "Uh-huh", "okay", "oh". I don't want to be rude, but seriously I want to swan dive out the window right now.

Well I probably won't be around, but it will be funny as HELL when you get old, punk/punkette!



I strive to committ myself to never impose upon my kids or grandkids what I went through, and what I am going through. I want to be a wisened old crone who speaks very few words, but what words I do speak, will carry meaning. That's my hope for myself when I am old.



We all want that in our old age but then again you never know what the future will bring.
It almost sounds like your grandma is angry with you or has been for many years. You didn't say why you had druggie friends when you were young. Did you give granma a hard time when in your younger years? Were you on drugs youself. Usually granmas don't kick out their grandchild when they have a good relationship. There is more to your story than you are telling. If you don't want to talk to grannma tell her you are busy and have to go.

JUMP!!!!

We've studied this very thing in my Clinical Pastoral Education classes. There's research that's been done on this. All people do this type of thing though its most obvious in old people who retell the same story.

What old people are doing by repeating themselves is revealing where they are emotionally. The particular story(ies) she repeats are telling you what's really going on inside with her right now. They are called Metastories.

For example, let's say she's talking about a movie where everyone was trapped in a bunker. What she's really saying is that SHE feels trapped by her circumstances. "Grandma, do you feel a little like the people in the bunker?"

She's lived a long time and could think of thousands of stories to tell you but those particular stories are chosen by her for a reason and reveal much about how she's thinking and feeling. It is not just "senility." She doesn't even realize why she's repeating the same stories but its an opportunity for you to go past the story to open up a deeper and more intimate conversation with her about what's going on with her.

Listen for the emotion behind what she's saying.

And over and over and over again? I'm talking to my grandma right now, and she keeps talking about the same thing over and over and has been for the pat 40 minutes, and I'm just like "yep", "Uh-huh", "okay", "oh". I don't want to be rude, but seriously I want to swan dive out the window right now.

After a lifetime of eating the standard American diet and taking numerous petrochemical pharmacological wonder pills the mind just starts to say Fuck It!

Perhaps that is her intent and she wants you to jump.

j/k My mother does this because she has the beginnings of Alzheimer's Disease and even though she takes medication for it, some days are much worse than other days.

And I am thankful for each and every one of those days I have left with her.

We just want to piss off the youngsters. It's the only fun we have.

they're waiting on a different result

And over and over and over again? I'm talking to my grandma right now, and she keeps talking about the same thing over and over and has been for the pat 40 minutes, and I'm just like "yep", "Uh-huh", "okay", "oh". I don't want to be rude, but seriously I want to swan dive out the window right now.

And over and over and over again? I'm talking to my grandma right now, and she keeps talking about the same thing over and over and has been for the pat 40 minutes, and I'm just like "yep", "Uh-huh", "okay", "oh". I don't want to be rude, but seriously I want to swan dive out the window right now.