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In reply to the discussion: Saying What Must Be Said: The President-Elect is MENTALLY ILL [View all]Zoonart
(14,491 posts)but, having just gone through twenty years of watching my non-asshole Dad decline with dementia, I can tell you that this disease can strike when relatively young and begin to present itself subtly.
Dad began showing signs in his mid-sixties. First stages were mild paranoia and innocently triggered rages. Has anger could go from zero to sixty in seconds and was totally unhinged and sometimes physical. His balance was effected and he seemed to have an inability to reset his vision when looking fro side to side... reference trump's difficulty with the teleprompter. For Dad it effected his driving.
Progression was spastic arm movements, loss of social filters, extreme paranoia and difficulty sleeping.
He passed, last January after two years in a nursing home. I think what we are seeing in Trump is dementia. NOT A DOCTOR and not qualified in any way other then the experience of nearly 20 years of watching this decline.