Personal story: my maternal grandmother suffered from what the family called “the change of life” but what I think was actually undiagnosed schizophrenia. Anyway as she approached 80 dementia set in suddenly, and the first thing to go was the crazy. For about six months she was the sweetest old lady and remembered nearly everyone and eve…
Personal story: my maternal grandmother suffered from what the family called “the change of life” but what I think was actually undiagnosed schizophrenia. Anyway as she approached 80 dementia set in suddenly, and the first thing to go was the crazy. For about six months she was the sweetest old lady and remembered nearly everyone and everything except the crazy thinking that had plagued her for decades. But it only lasted six months, and then she started forgetting names and more recent events, and she passed within a year after that. Yet for awhile I had the grandma I had always hoped for.
Personal story: my maternal grandmother suffered from what the family called “the change of life” but what I think was actually undiagnosed schizophrenia. Anyway as she approached 80 dementia set in suddenly, and the first thing to go was the crazy. For about six months she was the sweetest old lady and remembered nearly everyone and everything except the crazy thinking that had plagued her for decades. But it only lasted six months, and then she started forgetting names and more recent events, and she passed within a year after that. Yet for awhile I had the grandma I had always hoped for.
Hugs. My father had a temper at times and was, at times impatient and autocratic, all of which 'burned off' in his later years of dementia.