"Sometimes it feels like thinking in syrup" - the experience of losing sense of self in those with young onset dementia.

Conclusions: The experience of having and living with young onset dementia affected the persons' thoughts and memory and was experienced through the persons' loss of personality and sense of self. Thoughts about the future were associated with fear, and the risk of changing their personalities to something different from the one which they had experienced as humiliating throughout most of their lives. PMID: 32111147 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being Source Type: research