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[Warpy]

9. I've seen violence begin and then escalate in mid stage dementia

The dementia patient is so compromised there is no longer any room for denial and free floating anger often takes its place. Anyone who gets too close when they're angry is going to get slugged. Nothing is planned, so they are unlikely to find a knife or load a gun because by the time they do this, they've forgotten what they were going to do with them.

At this point, chemical control has to come in, something that often appears to make the dementia worse as it makes caregivers safer.

Orange Blob is still in the early stages, believe it or not, with signs of complication by substance abuse. Most of what we're seeing in him is malignant narcissism.