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Acute confusion (delirium) is altered consciousness with reduced ability to focus, or have abnormal ideas, developing over hours to days, tending to fluctuate during the day and worsening at night. It’s commonly associated with acute medical and physical conditions, and with increasing age. Alcohol, drugs (both certain medications and drugs of abuse) and carbon monoxide poisoning can induce this state.
Chronic confusion is part of many physical and mental degenerative conditions, including dementia, strokes and Parkinson’s. Symptoms of acute or chronic confusion include disorientation in time and space, inability to think or speak clearly, difficulty concentrating, seeing, or hearing
