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Signs of Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease is an incurable disease of the nervous system.
Most often it occurs in the elderly and is characterized by the destruction of brain cells.
Neurofibrillary glomeruli and neuritic plaques are formed in the brain tissue.
This degenerative disease is the most common type of senile dementia.
The causes of changes that occur in the brain in Alzheimer's disease have remained unexplained for more than a hundred years.
There are many theories that explain its appearance.
These include injuries, poor heredity, viruses, the influence of external toxic factors (aluminum, nitrates), pathological immune reactions.
According to statistics, among people over the age of 65, 5% suffer from this disease.
But the first signs may appear after 40 years.
The youngest patient who was diagnosed with this disease was 28 years old.
Doctors warn that changes in memory and behavior of people should be alarming at any age.
This is an occasion to immediately consult a neurologist or a psychiatrist.
Diagnostics
In order to make an accurate diagnosis, which means to prescribe the right treatment and prolong the period of active life for a person, it is necessary to conduct a number of studies.
First of all, it is necessary to exclude other diseases: Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, atherosclerosis of the cerebral vessels, brain tumor.
For diagnosis, the following studies are carried out:
detailed blood analysis thyroid studies blood test for HIV and for the Wasserman reaction cardiac cardiogram magnetic resonance imaging of the brain examination of cerebrospinal fluid measurement of pupil dilation after administration of mydriatics
Also, during the study, the doctor collects information about the patient's past illnesses.
It tests short term memory and the ability to solve the simplest mathematical problems, the ability to understand what is read.
There are also a number of tests to determine attention, speech.
The patient will be asked to perform daily actions.
In this article, you can get acquainted with the causes of Alzheimer's disease.
And here is a detailed material about the symptoms and treatment of this disease.
What to do if you have identified the symptoms of the disease in yourself or in close people, read the link: http://www.neuroplus.ru/bolezni/bolezn alcgeymera/chto delat esli vy zapodozrili bolezn alcgeymera.html.
Signs of Alzheimer's disease
Changes in the cortex and deeper layers of the brain begin long before the first symptoms appear.
Of the mental functions, memory is the first to suffer.
The first signs of Alzheimer's disease at an early stage
Moderate forgetfulness.
The names of friends and recent events fall out of memory.
Finding out one question many times.
Repeating one story word for word.
Inability to pay at the store.
The patient may get lost in a familiar environment.
Disregard for hygiene procedures.
Patients stop monitoring the cleanliness of their clothes and their housing.
There is a habit of shifting the solution of the simplest issues to the relatives, which the patient previously coped with independently.
Inserts words that are similar in sound, but different in meaning.
He cannot concentrate his attention for a long time.
Resists new things or minor changes.
Quickly loses interest and becomes irritable and aggressive for no reason.
He forgets that he has already eaten.
Constantly chooses only one type of food.
Does not experience a feeling of satiety.
Often loses things.
Such patients are characterized by an astonished facial expression with wide open eyes.
Alzheimer's disease
In the middle stage of the disease, the patient has such deviations:
Noticeable changes in behavior, ignoring the rules of hygiene.
Confuses close people.
He does not know which of them is a son, who is a brother, who is a spouse Can harm himself: get poisoned, fall, get lost.
He can take other people's things, but he wonot recognize his own.
Constantly repeats certain stories, phrases, movements.
He cannot logically explain events or his actions.
Loses the ability to read or perceive the read text.
Often behaves inappropriately: he can shout, curse, threaten, accuse of theft.
Loses the sense of time, wakes up at night for work, etc.
She dresses not according to the weather and is not responsible for the situation.
Needs help when taking a shower, eating.
Has serious deviations in sexual behavior, can perceive a stranger in the role of a spouse.
Symptoms of late stage Alzheimer's disease
Becomes lonely and alienated Speaks incoherently, over time may lose the ability to speak Loses control of urination and bowel emptying processes Loses weight, the skin becomes dry, cracks easily appear on it Becomes sluggish and drowsy
In order to make the picture more vivid, we suggest watching a video about Alzheimer's disease.
It should be noted that each person may have their first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
At the same time, you can not make such a serious diagnosis if you notice several signs of the disease in yourself or someone close to you.
Remember that only a qualified specialist can make a diagnosis.
And the sooner you contact him, the better results the treatment will give.
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Posted on Mon, 08/18/2014 - 15: 35 by Guest user (not verified)
My grandmother of 1933 and my mother in law of 45 years have similar symptoms.everyone has bouts of aggression.
They may get confused in a familiar area.the houses seem to be the same, but in a different color.they canot concentrate on their actions.it seems to the mother in law that she is being watched,that a chip has been inserted in her head.at home, they scratch everything with nails.sew on and cut off clothes.but the mother in law does not have memory loss.but a grandmother can ask the same thing 10 times in 10 minutes!!
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Posted on Thu, 08/13/2015-13: 36 by Sergey Dovganov (not verified)
In the same way, my grandmother has been since 1928
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Posted on Mon, 09/22/2014-19: 07 by Vlad user (not verified)
My mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease at the age of 76.
Most likely, she is now in the middle stage of the disease.
To the above symptoms, I would add a selfish attitude to others, aggression not only to relatives, neighbors, but also to pets.
Lack of a sense of pity, compassion and heartlessness.
A terrible disease.
it was as if Satan had possessed the person.
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Posted on Thu, 10/09/2014-07: 34 by user marianna (not verified)
After reading the symptoms, I thought my mother has exactly the initial stage...
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Posted on Sun, 10/12/2014-04: 10 by Zoya user (not verified)
Yes, I have seen such sick people many times, it is a terrible disease.
I also think that you need to contact a professional doctor, the sooner the better.
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Posted on Mon, 10/20/2014-17: 30 by Vera (not verified)
It is only unclear why they write that with Alzheimer's disease, a person does not die from it, but from pneumonia or some other diseases.
What is this supposed to mean?
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Posted on Thu, 04/23/2015-07: 16 by Iprit user (not verified)
Usually understand: the disease itself does not cause deadly changes in the body, but age and some behavioral features (for example, the same dressing is not according to the weather, decreased activity, eating disorders ) it promotes the addition of other diseases - pneumonia, intestinal infections, etc.
My grandfather, for example, died of pneumonia((
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Posted on Sun, 05/10/2015-17: 32 by user Alina 77 (not verified)
Alzheimer's patients sometimes leave home in the winter without a jacket coat, as a result they get sick.
The immune system is glorified and it is not difficult to get the strongest pneumonia.
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Posted on Wed, 11/05/2014-13: 47 by Nick's user (not verified)
my grandmother has the initial stage... and I can say that this is a complete ppc, and the idea that this is just the beginning scares me... to all of the above, I want to add that a person suffering from alzheimer's chooses one victim in his family, and makes this unfortunate scapegoat... and all kapets to you!
every 10-15min, he asks the same question, carries empty pots to the balcony, unzips kitchen rags in the corners, hides sweets... and sharp attacks of aggression are constantly observed... it is not possible to withstand this, I am waiting with horror for what awaits our family next....
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Posted on Fri, 01/30/2015 - 11: 58 by user Svetka (not verified)
Hold on, oddly enough, but these are just flowers.
It's going to get even worse.
Prepare yourself in advance for the worst.
Do not be angry with the patient, in any case.
Donot blame yourself.
Donot blame Grandma.
It's not her fault.
It's just a disease.
and no one is immune from it.
I survived it.
At the same time, I had two such patients on my hands.
This is my grandma and my mom.
I canot tell you how scary and hard it is.
I wish you PATIENCE, PATIENCE and PATIENCE again.
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Posted on Wed, 03/02/2016-20: 30 by user laura (not verified)
and my mother is also sick with this disease - - - this is something terrible she accuses everyone of stealing food takes and does not remember
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Posted on Mon, 11/17/2014-16: 07 by Hilkona user (not verified)
My mother died 2 years ago from this terrible disease.
She was 60 years old.
They say that only 5 % of patients of this age.
It is very scary and painful to see how your closest person turns into a vegetable.
At first, there were mood swings.
But they didnot pay much attention to this.
Then the person falls into a terrible depression.
He forgets simple things, loses everything and gets lost himself.
My mother got lost 3 times, until I stopped leaving her alone.
Your life stops because you have to be constantly close to such a patient.
And the taps open, and the gas, and things fly out of the window, and they put their underpants on their heads.
If such a disaster has happened in your family, be strong.
I wish you patience.
Because the last stage is very painful.
First, speech disappears, then he stops walking and recognizing everyone, and then he eats and drinks.....The worst thing is that the end is not avoided.
I hope they will soon find a reason and a cure for this muck.
Health to all!
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Posted on Tue, 11/18/2014 - 11: 42 by user Natasha (not verified)
My mother forgets all recent events, and remembers what happened many years ago.
Constantly hungry, she does not remember what she recently ate.
Forgets relatives.
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Posted on Tue, 12/30/2014 - 10: 30 by user Valentina (not verified)
my mother started everything the same way.
I had to put a lock on the kitchen door and not only so that I wouldnot eat everything in a row.but also so that it does not approach the stove and water.
Now she is 75 years old.
She is a disabled person of group 1.
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Posted on Wed, 03/25/2015 - 15: 15 by Guest user (not verified)
Valentina, please tell me, does your mother have a group for the same disease?
my mother also has a similar disease, do they register a group with such a disease?
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Posted on Tue, 11/18/2014 - 15: 50 by user Kristina (not verified)
I canot understand it!they write an incurable disease....and immediately from the bottom, treatment in Israel. ... treatment here and there!if the disease is not curable !what to do with a person, tell me !?psychiatric clinics do not accept people over the age of 60!...
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Posted on Mon, 05/11/2015 - 21: 28 by user MA RIA (not verified)
We talked about Alzheimer's on the radio today .this is a gene mutation and the necessary protein is not produced,the treatment consists in obtaining this protein from outside in tablet form so that the disease does not progress
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Posted on Mon, 12/07/2015-02: 27 by user Sofia (not verified)
My mother has a twin sister, both are sick.my aunt is in Israel in a special clinic,my mother is with me, she is not receiving treatment at the moment, five years ago she tried to treat, but the money stopped being enough, and the nurses advised that there is no sense at a certain stage anymore.
So, the results are the same for both after 6 years, the aunt, who is also being tried to adopt, study with her, treat even worse,she almost does not talk,is completely closed.mine chirps constantly, requires attention and even recognizes others at times
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Posted on Sat, 12/13/2014 - 11: 51 by user Tatyana1223 (not verified)
I also want to get an answer to the question:what to do with a person with Alzheimer's .
Why are they not admitted to psychiatric clinics at the age of 6o?
Please help (at least with advice).how can we live?
You need to go to work.and you canot leave such a person unattended.
How to raise your children.after all, there is horror in the family?
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Posted on Mon, 02/23/2015-21: 10 by Guest user (not verified)
Hello!
my mother also had this disease .
I understand and sympathize with you .
I couldnot be with her all the time , so very soon the question arose - what should I do ?
relatives helped for a while , but they also gave up ... there was nothing left but to look for a good clinic .
If the limit has come, look for a good psycho neurological boarding school .
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Posted on Sun, 06/21/2015 - 08: 37 by Guest user (not verified)
In Italy, 80 % of elderly people with this disease and here, too, relatives must go to work in order to have a good pension later .
So they found a way out of the situation they hire a nurse and the problem is solved if the nurse is good :-) and then you can find another problem :-)
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Posted on Sun, 09/27/2015 - 19: 19 by lisa (not verified)
they hire a nurse from our family and they go slowly crazy with them....
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Posted on Fri, 10/23/2015-16: 29 by user Blogger (not verified)
If this has started, you need to go to a mental health clinic and negotiate with doctors about establishing a disability!!
A person can not follow himself, and as a fact, this is the 1st group, which means there must be a guardian.
The guardian is also entitled to money.
Patients, as a rule, are pensioners, which means that there is any income + disability and guardianship, so you can allow a caretaker for the patient, although I believe that such patients ( no matter how cruel it is to read and understand!!) even if they are relatives, they should not be with normal people!!
The disease can last for years, and it turns out that you are waiting for death... and this is not healthy.
Free state institutions are 100% of a person you give, roughly speaking, to death - it's not worth it.
There are specially trained people who get paid for this.
As a rule, they are located in the nearest suburb, but many are also in the city itself.
(my Petersburg is a city).
The prices are, of course, sky high from 45 000-60 000..
maybe there is a higher one - it's expensive, but there are 25-30 000, that's real!
Well, you pay about 5000-10000 rubles to the pension received by the sick, everyone is cheaper than a nurse!!
And you donot observe all this under your nose, again, if it's a suburb, then it's fresh air!!
You come as far as possible, there as you agree with the staff, well, you pay once a month.
Patience, everyone.
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Posted on Sat, 01/10/2015-09: 24 by user Anna K. (not verified)
Our mother's disease has been rapidly progressing for the last six months.
She is constantly experiencing a feeling of hunger and drags everything in her mouth.
We are especially concerned that she is already eating her clothes.
She bites her sleeves, pants, chews her socks, and when she goes to bed, she tears the blanket with her teeth ( her teeth are very healthy, like a young one, she is 85).
Someone tell me what you can do with her hands so that they are in motion and at the same time safe.
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Posted on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 11: 49 by user nell (not verified)
My dad is 86 years old, this disease is on his face.
But it also has poor eyesight (one eye sees 30%).
Glasses give almost nothing to cataracts and glaucoma combined.
He walks with a wand and only so that someone is nearby.
But in the past - a very active person, a military man, then a physical education teacher.
Now every morning he says that he is tired of such a life, every day the same thing, he would rather die.
And what can you do with it???
I found tips: to dissolve old things and wind them into tangles, Collect the largest and simplest puzzles.
I'll go buy it now.
Maybe it will help to occupy him at least for a while.
And then, especially in winter?
Now we go for a walk every day, once a week we take with us to the dacha.
I'm waiting for winter with horror!
I feel sorry for him very much.
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Posted on Mon, 12/07/2015-02: 19 by user Sofia (not verified)
Practically nothing, she will return to her favorite business.
Our mother tears and eats diapers,and what we just did not do.I have an experienced and very inventive nurse, but we have already given up.it is useless, the patients become like children, but they are very inventive,cunning and strong enough.
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Posted on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 21: 32 by Guest user (not verified)
Our mother lets down knitted things.
There are already several bags of balls of thread.
He tries to dissolve everything in a row.
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Posted on Sun, 01/11/2015 - 13: 42 by Anastasia(1488) (not verified)
First, I watched a movie about this disease "still Alice", after I already read this article.
And somehow I became afraid for myself in the 9th grade the next day I forgot that I had an exam.
I forget the name of some items, I canot always describe something to the interlocutor.
But I think that it's just because of worries, excitement, it's still too early for this disease.
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Posted on Fri, 03/27/2015-05: 39 by user Galina Alekseevna (not verified)
The girl Anastasia, you simply lack some trace elements and vitamins - look on the Internet and consult a neurologist.
And also the doctor will prescribe injections of memory pills corresponding to your age.
And most importantly, DO NOT FORGET that you are the smartest and most beautiful and the brightest of all !
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Posted on Mon, 04/11/2016 - 10: 48 by Irina L (not verified)
So I have the same problem, although I am only 26 years old.
On the move, it flies out of my head...
I leave the house and start thinking whether I turned everything off, whether I left the toilet open for the cat...
However, when you think about it at the time when you do, such questions do not arise.
And one more thing: when they remind you in a few words, the whole picture immediately comes to mind.
Just like that.
I think it may be due to the fact that I once stood on my head and slightly injured my neck(((
I wish you health and good)))
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Posted on Sat, 01/24/2015-16: 31 by Anna Sunrise (not verified)
maybe someone knows how to prevent this.
I'm 37,but my memory scares me, I forget how ordinary words are called.
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Posted on Sun, 08/30/2015 - 11: 55 by Guest user (not verified)
I drink phenotropil, you can tanakan, nootropil.
Something nootropic.
And memory is better, and for the vessels of the brain.
I consulted with a doctor, because not only my father, but also my mother, this disease did not bypass.
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Posted on Mon, 03/02/2015-01: 53 by ZooLoo user (not verified)
What funny comments!
I was especially pleased with the passage about "cowards on the head".
I was in a psychiatric hospital and one grandfather there clearly suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
He confused people all the time, and at night he went to bed with other patients, thinking that it was his wife and tried to have sex with them.
Yes, he also had fecal incontinence and often shat in bed.
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Posted on Fri, 09/09/2016 - 21: 22 by Guest user (not verified)
yes, they are funny.
((( it's not fun at all when you see a loved one in such a state and you canot help him in any way.
My grandmother's sister is ill now.
So her daughter turned into an old woman next to her.
The worst thing is that this disease is developing rapidly, especially at the last stage.
2 months ago, my grandmother recognized everyone and went to the toilet normally.
The first signs of it appeared, however, about 3 years ago: aggression.
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Posted on Thu, 03/05/2015-14: 00 by user Elena V. (not verified)
My grandmother had this disease.
I did not know.
and I was angry at her.
She was staying with me.
If I had known, I would probably have been calmer.
As it was, it seemed to me that she was mocking me.
I must say that the disease is terrible.
Especially if you are left alone and alone with a patient.
But something even worse happened to me.
My father (her son) came to help me and.... died of a heart attack.
Right in my apartment.
Now I know that a sign of indigestion can be a sign of a pre infarction condition.
But that's not all.
Now I notice early signs of this disease.
I am not even 36 years old, but I forget words, confuse letters and numbers, I have socially isolated myself from everyone, I have broken all social ties, I suffer from mood swings.
And now I'm glad that I donot have children.
I would not like them to be such a "gift".
Now I'm thinking how much to live and how to die, so that other people donot complicate their lives.
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Posted on Sun, 04/19/2015-08: 27 by user Tatiana (not verified)
Elena, just in such cases, you can not lock yourself in,on the contrary, you need to communicate more, resort to physical exertion,have a good walk, in the morning winter gymnastics and, of course, 2 times a year examination and Prof.treatment.
The disease is not treated,but it can be stopped,everything depends only on you,while you are still in an adequate consciousness.
Act,do not sit and do not wait until it captures you completely.
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Posted on Mon, 10/12/2015 - 10: 42 by user Tatiana F. (not verified)
My husband got sick with this disease, I donot know what to do.
He is poor, knocks on all the doors, goes to the doctors, but there is no help.
Urinary incontinence, somewhere to go, a look, it's scary to look into his eyes.
I donot know what to do, how to behave with him and how to help him.
He constantly goes to the urologist, it's something with my bladder, I canot explain to him and prove that this is not so.
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Posted on Wed, 03/18/2015 - 07: 07 by user Ruslan (not verified)
I think this stuff started at Grandma's.
Memory lasts for 30 minutes, there are often attacks of aggression, bouts of tearfulness, periodically incoherent speech.
Recently, I began to get lost in my native area, where I lived for 40 years.
Over the past 5 years, I have lost a lot of weight.
In general, the degradation of the brain is obvious.
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Posted on Sat, 03/21/2015 - 09: 49 by user Elena (not verified)
I read this article and was horrified!
I donot want that fate for myself.
And I feel that it is better to be checked.
The problem is that I'm only 31 and I began to forget the names of relatives.
I was so ashamed when I wanted to ask how my cousin was doing, but I couldnot remember the name until I was prompted...
And I also stretched in the parking lot, forgot where the car was, waited for my husband to show me.
And I donot say anything about tantrums at home at all.my husband is furious that I ask everything twice.
I canot remember people's faces, and I also began to forget where it lies, although there were no problems with this!
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Posted on Tue, 12/22/2015-20: 37 by Tata user (not verified)
You most likely have a depressive state.
The first sign of incipient depression is a lack of concentration, not the ability to remember or remember anything.
Not necessarily " Alzheimer's visited"
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Posted on Sun, 03/22/2015 - 17: 18 by user Tanya (not verified)
My grandmother has this disease and it's just hell.
We live in a one room apartment in 3.
For several days now, she has been howling at night and will be accused of theft.
Suddenly she decided to walk herself, although she is 90 and she has lost this ability.
We donot know what to do.
We live in Moldova and there is no help from the state.
How to treat, what to do?
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Posted on Sat, 06/13/2015 - 21: 41 by Nova user (not verified)
yes, it seemed like hell to me at first.
then I started trying to figure out what was going on.
by the way, the doctors did not warn about anything, they just said - and what you want is old age....... now it will be so.
yes, a disappointing forecast, but then it got worse.
now I remember how I was pounding a year ago from her behavior....... and today I think, yes, it was flowers....... the disease is progressing, there is no life sense in this body, just a vegetable, but...this is my mom.
my life has stopped with the arrival of my mother's illness, I'm taking care of a vegetable, it's all nonsense, and I donot know what will happen next yet.
I'm thinking about boarding schools for such patients, when she gets it, it happens..but I still tolerate it.
and at the very beginning I thought that she was mocking her already obnoxious character, and it was so insulting, and now I understand everything, but it doesnot make it any easier.
it's a difficult topic.
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Posted on Tue, 02/23/2016 - 09: 36 by user Love (not verified)
A very familiar picture.
I have the same problem with my mother.
Not only that, all her life she had the character "not sugar", but in her old age, in general..".
And as mentioned above, a person with such a disease
