A

Alcohol: increase in consumption, hiding alcohol sometimes works.

B

Buying: anything and everything but particularly soft toys.

C

Children: talking to children can cause embarrassment.

D

Disinhibition: takes many forms, loss of social graces are common.

E

Eating: changes in taste often occur, sweet things being preferred.

H

Hoarding: refusing to throw anything away.

Hugging: sometimes anybody and everybody.

Humming: constantly humming, often on one note. The distraction of music, perhaps through headphones, sometimes helps.

F

Fiddling and touching everything around - a symptom called utilisation behaviour

G

Giggling: often for no reason or at inappropriate times

J

Jealousy: suspicion about anybody or everybody particularly the nearest, dearest and most helpful.

K

Kissing: sometimes anybody or everybody.

Kleptomania: acquiring things from shops, explaining the illness to local shops may help.

L

Licking: patients may put anything in their mouths, a symptom called hyperorality

M

Money: it may unaccountably disappear, Enduring Power of Attorney recommended.

P

Picking up: almost anything but particularly little bits on carpets.

Q

Quantities: counting objects, arranging things in patterns or having to do a task a certain number of times.

R

Religion: over and above previous interest.

S

Sex: some very sad changes often occur in sexual habits.

Switches: obsessively switching things off, even the fridge.

T

Time: strict adherence to routines, eating, walking, sleeping etc. must be carried out at the designated time.

Tiredness: may insist in staying in bed or having fixed rest periods.

V

Vocalisations: clearing the throat, grunting or shouting repeatedly out for no reasons

W

Walking: long walks, often the same route at the same time of day

Wordbooks: constantly reading and repeating words from the book

ZZZ

Sleeping: often spending long periods in bed.