Well, I've rarely seen a 'dementia' crying! to put it another way, usually they are far away, or get faces muddled, or can't remember which chair to sit in. But I cannot honestly remember seeing one old person with a fading addled brain being sad, miserable, unhappy. They don't sit like the mentally damaged youngers, and cry and cry helplessly and you can't get through to them They haven't enough 'passion' left to feel that sort of anguish... and truly... I think of all the utterly foully miserable times I have had -- and do you know, they are softening.. they have faded... like lavender looses its pungency and becomes... just crispy breaking flowers of a pale past. So maybe that is how a faded mind behaves.. picks at the little flowers?
Dementia MAY be unkind to those who have to cope with it. But it is not terrible for those who 'suffer?' it. I don't think they 'suffer' at all. It's the ones left behind who think it must be painful, and have to do all the worrying and nailbiting about time to make peepees, drink, eat, put to bed, find in the garden licking a garden pruning knife! paddling with skirt held high in the fishpond!!! you know. some crazy things for US, but for them???
Dementia MAY be unkind to those who have to cope with it. But it is not terrible for those who 'suffer?' it. I don't think they 'suffer' at all. It's the ones left behind who think it must be painful, and have to do all the worrying and nailbiting about time to make peepees, drink, eat, put to bed, find in the garden licking a garden pruning knife! paddling with skirt held high in the fishpond!!! you know. some crazy things for US, but for them???
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