What is Alzheimer's disease? - Ivan Seah Yu Jun
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Mike
My mother had dementia from clogged arteries in her brain (doctors attributed to her heavy smoking her entire life) for well over ten years up until her death. Long before she was diagnosed she was repeating the same story over and over sometimes within the same conversation. Then she started wandering away even in the middle of the night thinking she had to get to work until it was impossible to keep an eye on her making regular care necessary. There were some bad times with the places she was put into, caregivers taking her things, facilities not keeping a good enough eye on her allowing her to leave once while it was over 100F and she tried to walk to work when she hadn't worked in years. She seemed to remember memories of me from a long time ago but not recent.
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My mother had dementia from clogged arteries in her brain (doctors attributed to her heavy smoking her entire life) for well over ten years up until her death. Long before she was diagnosed she was repeating the same story over and over sometimes within the same conversation. Then she started wandering away even in the middle of the night thinking she had to get to work until it was impossible to keep an eye on her making regular care necessary. There were some bad times with the places she was put into, caregivers taking her things, facilities not keeping a good enough eye on her allowing her to leave once while it was over 100F and she tried to walk to work when she hadn't worked in years. She seemed to remember memories of me from a long time ago but not recent.
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Gankageddon
I hate this F-ing disease. I have to watch my favorite person in the world, the person that taught me everything, that helped me when I fell in life, that was always there for me, now slowly forget everything they know and watch as they stare back at me as they struggle to figure out who I am. This is why people get addicted to pain killers. Meanwhile college kids on twitter cry about being called the wrong pronoun. Please let the coronavirus wipe us out already.
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I hate this F-ing disease. I have to watch my favorite person in the world, the person that taught me everything, that helped me when I fell in life, that was always there for me, now slowly forget everything they know and watch as they stare back at me as they struggle to figure out who I am. This is why people get addicted to pain killers. Meanwhile college kids on twitter cry about being called the wrong pronoun. Please let the coronavirus wipe us out already.
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Bitch
Honestly I don't really think it's all that bad, considering how many ways a person can die this seems pretty merciful. When a person has Alzheimer's they pretty much just live in their most vivid memories and also they aren't really aware of the fact that they are dying. The only people Alzheimer's hurt emotionally are the people close to the affected person. And honestly spending my last days reliving the most memorable parts of my life seems like a nice way to go.
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Honestly I don't really think it's all that bad, considering how many ways a person can die this seems pretty merciful. When a person has Alzheimer's they pretty much just live in their most vivid memories and also they aren't really aware of the fact that they are dying. The only people Alzheimer's hurt emotionally are the people close to the affected person. And honestly spending my last days reliving the most memorable parts of my life seems like a nice way to go.
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Aswin
I am moving towards age 19, already started to struggle finding difference between dream and real life. it becomes increasingly difficult as years passes, alphabets replaces numbers in my mind and stops me from doing even a addition, started to doubt my own present decisions as I found my previous thoughts were wrong(my brain is not stable. if anyone had a study regarding my cases, please let me know what is happening around me.
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I am moving towards age 19, already started to struggle finding difference between dream and real life. it becomes increasingly difficult as years passes, alphabets replaces numbers in my mind and stops me from doing even a addition, started to doubt my own present decisions as I found my previous thoughts were wrong(my brain is not stable. if anyone had a study regarding my cases, please let me know what is happening around me.
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Liddle
My grandma has this disease. She will often walk into a room and stand there for ten minutes and then forget why she came onto the room. When she tries to explain things she cant say the word shes thinking and we have guess what shes saying. An example of what she would say is do you know where the thing is? You know the round thing? Shell often eat out of an ice cream tub and then leave it out. Dementia sucks
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My grandma has this disease. She will often walk into a room and stand there for ten minutes and then forget why she came onto the room. When she tries to explain things she cant say the word shes thinking and we have guess what shes saying. An example of what she would say is do you know where the thing is? You know the round thing? Shell often eat out of an ice cream tub and then leave it out. Dementia sucks
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Peter
Here's away take that person back to the spots theve been or a person or a key word and it helps it's working on me every spot I go it brings back memories I've been alot of places when I was a boy I seen alot done alot I've always been a good person no matter what anyone said bout me I've been lied on a lot
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Here's away take that person back to the spots theve been or a person or a key word and it helps it's working on me every spot I go it brings back memories I've been alot of places when I was a boy I seen alot done alot I've always been a good person no matter what anyone said bout me I've been lied on a lot
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Rebecca
My grandma has alzheimer's and its gotten worst since my grandpa died last year. What hurts me the most was never about her forgetting me, its when she blamed and cry herself for not being able to remember. She got frustrated and her moodswings are so bad. I hate seeing her feeling lonely.
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My grandma has alzheimer's and its gotten worst since my grandpa died last year. What hurts me the most was never about her forgetting me, its when she blamed and cry herself for not being able to remember. She got frustrated and her moodswings are so bad. I hate seeing her feeling lonely.
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Abcd
It is impossible to have short term memory loss! Your short term memory only lasts for 10-30 seconds. You might have trouble encoding your short term memory to long term memory, but if you lose your short term memory, it means you don't have consciousness. Ted-ed got this point wrong.
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It is impossible to have short term memory loss! Your short term memory only lasts for 10-30 seconds. You might have trouble encoding your short term memory to long term memory, but if you lose your short term memory, it means you don't have consciousness. Ted-ed got this point wrong.
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