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Collecting public responses from individuals who believe their decision-making, thoughts, behavior, emotions, sleep, or daily functioning are being remotely influenced, and/or have changed in unusual or unexplained ways.
This survey is open to the general public. You do not need a diagnosis, legal case, medical proof, or prior report to participate.
Responses help document reported experiences involving decision-making changes, unusual sensory or sound experiences, cognitive concerns, sleep disruption, emotional distress, behavior changes, and impacts on daily life.
Individuals experiencing abnormal neurological, sensory, cognitive, or unexplained health symptoms should be counted, documented, and included in conversations about research, medical access, support, and public policy.
It does not provide medical, mental health, legal, or investigative conclusions.
Signs of Abnormal Decision-Making That May Have a Medical or Neurological Cause
“Abnormal decision-making” is not a diagnosis. It generally means a new or significant change from the person’s usual judgment, reasoning, or behavior, especially when it interferes with safety or daily life.
Observable signs
- Making sudden, impulsive, or unusually risky choices without considering the consequences.
- Agreeing to actions the person would normally question or refuse.
- Difficulty comparing options, solving simple problems, or following a familiar plan.
- Repeatedly changing decisions without a clear reason.
- Making choices that conflict with the person’s established values, responsibilities, or interests.
- Spending, donating, giving away belongings, or entering contracts irresponsibly.
- Becoming unusually vulnerable to scams, manipulation, pressure, or misleading information.
- Ignoring obvious risks involving driving, medication, cooking, finances, personal safety, or childcare.
- Showing poor boundaries, inappropriate familiarity, or socially inappropriate conduct.
- Acting unusually aggressive, reckless, uninhibited, withdrawn, or apathetic.
- Losing initiative and depending on others to make ordinary decisions.
- Repeating the same unsuccessful action despite warnings or harmful consequences.
- Denying or appearing unaware that their judgment or functioning has changed.
Poor judgment, trouble managing money, impaired planning, confusion, and difficulty completing familiar activities can occur with cognitive or neurological disorders.
Thinking and neurological symptoms that may accompany it
- New confusion or disorientation.
- Difficulty concentrating or maintaining attention.
- Memory gaps or inability to remember recent conversations and decisions.
- Slowed thinking or delayed responses.
- Trouble understanding instructions, conversations, or written information.
- Difficulty finding words or expressing thoughts.
- Becoming lost in familiar places.
- Problems recognizing people, objects, dates, or surroundings.
- Unusual sleepiness, agitation, restlessness, or rapidly fluctuating alertness.
- Headache, dizziness, imbalance, weakness, numbness, vision changes, slurred speech, or poor coordination.
A sudden medical condition called delirium may cause rapidly developing confusion, impaired attention, memory difficulty, disorientation, agitation, sleepiness, and changing levels of awareness. It can result from medical illness, infection, medication effects, oxygen deprivation, or other physical causes.
Possible non-psychiatric causes
Medical evaluation may consider:
- Stroke or transient ischemic attack.
- Traumatic brain injury or concussion.
- Seizure or the period following a seizure.
- Infection or fever.
- Low blood sugar, dehydration, or electrolyte imbalance.
- Low oxygen levels.
- Medication side effects or drug interactions.
- Alcohol, recreational drugs, or withdrawal.
- Severe sleep deprivation.
- Heat-related illness.
- Dementia or another neurological disease affecting the frontal or temporal areas of the brain.
These possibilities cannot be distinguished reliably from behavior alone; examination, medication review, laboratory testing, and sometimes neurological testing or imaging may be needed.
Emergency warning
Call 911 immediately when the change is sudden or accompanied by facial drooping, one-sided weakness or numbness, trouble speaking or understanding, vision loss, severe headache, dizziness, loss of balance, seizure, fainting, or reduced consciousness. Sudden confusion and impaired understanding can be signs of stroke, even when the person does not report pain.
