Posted by pseudoname on June 20, 2006, at 11:19:30
In reply to DENIAL on radio today, posted by pseudoname on June 20, 2006, at 9:08:54
…was my dad's incipient dementia. It was clear that he had cognitive problems and that they were getting worse. A lot worse. But no one ever acknowledge it.
A decade after his death, my mom and I discussed it, and she acknowledged that it was even worse than I thought. I can connect my mental / emotional problems of those years and shortly after directly to the effects of his dementia and the surrounding conspiracy of silence. I blamed myself for being so disloyal as to think there was anything wrong with him.
Even if nothing could have been done to help Dad, it would have been nice to be let off the hook.
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