Alzheimer's The Emotional Roller Coaster Ride

I must remind myself that the hard to comprehend behaviors being expressed by a person living with Alzheimer's are part of the disease, and are not a deliberate bad act on the their part.It is difficult to describe the range of emotions an Alzheimer's caregiver might feel or experience in a single day.Imagine being happy and then sad, caring then angry, focused then frustrated --an almost endless stream of feelings and emotions that conflict.What ’s the Difference Between Alzheimer’s and DementiaBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomThe caregiver often lives an anxiety filled life day-after-day.Alzheimer's Anger, Frustration, and AgitationI doubt that many peopleoutside"the Front Row" think about or consider this. Those outside the front row are normally too busy living their own life.Take me for example. I doubt that I communicated the amount of anxiety I felt in any given day to many people.Oddly, the only way most people could find out the way I felt and the way I was thinking was by reading this blog. I say odd because it is likely that the people that read this blog on an ongoing basis knew more about me than my close friends and people I see daily.One reason why this happens is because I am reluctant to be an alarmist and I make a conscious effort not to be too negative. I certainly didn't want to overreact within my own self.In others words, I didn't want to turn me into a negative person by constantly obsessing on the negative.The point here is that Alzheimer...
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