Dementia runs on both sides of my family.
My Mom has dementia and it is so sad to see her trapped in another world.
Kind of similar to psychosis.
So sad.
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Yeah, hopefully researchers can figure that one out.
Current treatments for alzheimers don’t really stop it, just prolong suffering,
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Yeah the meds she takes like Aricept and Namenda just slow down the progression a bit but doesn’t stop it.
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It’s got to be hard to live with a person who is gone but still alive, not a nice experience for the family.
I remember last time I was hospitalized there was a lady who was there with her family, probably the daughter and her husband and their daughter with her boyfriend. She was completely gone, though she would murmur words while moving her hands around “family, (husband name), (daughter name), home…etc”. It was very sad to see.
I remember saying something one time while the family were there grieving, something along the lines of “don’t worry she’ll get better”, to no one in particular, just to break up the awkwardness, and also because I was feeling happy that I could talk again after not being able to do so for quite some time.
I’m sure they took no offense, after all, we were in a psyche ward so they might have assumed we (the patients) were not doing quite so okay ourselves.
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I have a terrible memory. But I can sit through a tv program if it’s something I’m interested in. The catch is remembering what happened before. This is why I can’t go to school or work. Well that and the men following me. They come into my work if I’m working and that’s a problem. I have moments when I’m doing something I’ve done thousands of times before and I suddenly can’t remember how to do it. It’s scary and frustrating.
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I have dealt with it and it got better.
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I was also having severe memory problems as well especially with my short term memory and became super paranoid and thought it was Alzheimer’s or dementia which it isn’t. It’s just a part of the illness according to my psychiatrist. I was also having memory distortion which is the weirdest and scariest thing that I have experienced. My mind has stabilized a lot and my memory seems to be improving to where I can recall a lot of things.
My memory used to be really sharp and I could memorize and recall information quickly but now it’s not the same and I have to humble myself down even more. Hang in there!!! It gets better with time.
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I used to have a good memory.
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