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Glen Campbell Alzheimer’s Disease, Memento, And You – Famed Country Music Singer Glen Campbell has Alzheimer’s Disease, it was announced today. The sad news was communicated during an exclusive interview with People Magazine and with his wife Kim by his side. Campbell told People Magazine that he wanted fans to be aware of his condition and that he plans a farewell tour around America. What a sad bit of news, but here’s praying for Mr Campbell. Even if you’re not a fan of country music, at least give some of his works an ear, particularly my favorite “Rhinestone Cowboy.” And let’s hope we find a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease. On that note, Alzheimer’s is more than just “memory loss,” and People Magazine’s webpage has a link to the 25 symptoms that go with it.

went to md shrink to have my add and sleep meds fine tuned which he did. When i changed family doctors their rpt said that in addition i was bipolar ll. he never mentioned it to me?

i have always known that emotionally i felt ALMOST in constant flux.. not extremes and more fighting a lingering small depression…a small anxious feeling really. no depression that would interfear much with feelings of selfworth. inspite of this "thing" i have always had a "rational" and very positive outlook that comes to me as part of my personality at my core since i was a little girl.

What is normal? Can my emotions become more stable? you live one way all of your life and don’t know what it would be like any other way; but have always known that something just wasn’t perhaps like other people.

I lost my job due to caring for my alzheimers mother, so I have no insurance at this point so asking a shrink is out of the question.

So I’m clueless in all aspects. Any and all info please

So here is the scoop, my fiance and I live with his grandparents to help take care of them. He grandmother has Alzheimers.His mother moved back from New Hampshire a couple years ago to help out. (We’re in CA).

When she moved out here, she decided to see the same psychiatrist that my fiance sees. He has ADD and takes Adderall for it. The Dr. put her on the same meds. At first things were OK, put then it seems that her mental state has really been debatable. It has really gotten a lot worse in the past couple weeks. Let me run down some things she has done in the couple weeks,

1. She has started either talking or humming to herself constantly.
2. She has been accusing her son of stealing her car keys to take gas from her car and hiding her kitchen tools.
3. Accusing me of clogging up the toilets and that anything I leave in the house (like a bag) collects dust to worsen the grandpa’s COPD.
4. She sometimes doesn’t sleep at all (maybe a few hours)
5. She sometimes sleeps all day
6. She recently kicked out her husband (end of last year), then now called him over, called him a piece of s**t and asked for him to move back in, after saying she wants a divorce and never wants to see him again (all in the same breath)
7. She thinks some rooms in the house smell like rotten meat.
8. She is blaming me right now for everything wrong in the house.
9. When she is talking her to herself, it varies from talking to another person, from highs to lows, to the dog (we actually have a dog, so not that bad), to just mumbling to herself.

I do believe it has a lot to do with the Adderall she is taking, and I do believe she is taking more than the recommended dose because she always runs out before her next prescription is written. But the scary part is that she has been out of pills for a few days now and her symptoms have not gone away.

Before a few weeks ago, she was still passable for sane, even though she was accusing her husband of taking money out of her bank account to make it over drawn. (he doesn’t even have access to that account, it’s hers)

My fiance believes that the smell part is a big deal. She has been on about smells for a while.
1. She couldn’t sleep next to her husband because he smelled too much.
2. She smells an intense cigarette smoke in my fiance’s car.
3. She smells rotten meat in the living room.
4. She has been putting a bad smelling incense around the house to "clean" the house
5. She used to sleep with the dog every night and now doesn’t because it smells too bad.

And I’m sure it related but she has been cleaning far more than usual. She spent 5 hours cleaning a room that was perfectly clean. She also has been making it look like no one lives here. For examples, the bathroom used to have air cleaners, a plant, shampoos, soap, etc and now it looks like a hotel bathroom with nothing in it.

I guess what I’m trying to get at is that she has been exhibiting some really unreasonable behavior and doesn’t see how anything is wrong except for everyone else. I can go on forever listing things, but really we just don’t know what to do. We have tried talking to her Dr. and letting him know everything that has been going on. His response was "I’ll do some looking around." What does that even mean? We are at out wits end. Please, anyone with some advice out there as to what could be wrong or what we can do to fix it?

My dad is getting really confused now. He’s still living with my mom, but now he’s at the point where he sometimes doesn’t recognize her. I sometimes cry myself to sleep (I have a young daughter myself) and I’m trying to stay strong for everyone. I’ll cry when no one is around, etc. But how can I comfort or reassure myself? Any hints would be appreciated; nothing mean, please. I don’t need this right now.
Sorry, Crawfosa, I gave you a thumbs down by mistake! I meant to give you a thumbs up.

I have been married for a year and a half. Before we married, I was with him for about 6 months & then got pregnant. We were in love & had talked about possible marriage in the future, but we decided to go ahead and do it because of the pregnancy. (he claims the pregnancy had nothing to do with the marriage, but he admitts he would not have asked me that soon if I was not pregnant)

Honestly, I do not think we would be together now if we did not have a child. I moved in with my husband after we got engaged. As soon as I moved in it was like something changed. He acted totally different. It is basically emotional abuse. He turns everything into a competition (household chores, amount of sleep we each get, etc). When I was pregnant, I had lots of morning sickness/ nausea and he accused me of faking it just to get out of helping him clean the house. He gets mad over the smallest things & yells and screams and calls me a bitch, selfish, lazy, etc. Then its like he snaps out of it, apologizes, and says it does not mean anything because he was mad.

FYI: I do all of the cooking, half of the cleaning, I am in college full time (I am in my last year), I work 4 days a week, & and do most of the caregiving for our 10 month old son. …and he calls me lazy all of the time. I do not know what more I can do to make him happy.

I am really considering divorce. I am not really attracted to him anymore… I guess all of the fighting and yelling has made me feel totally disconnected from him. Sometimes he is a very good and sweet man. He seems to be totally in love with me & I would feel guilty leaving him and tearing our family apart, but I just do not feel the same anymore. I hate being yelled at and put down all of the time….

If the soul is immortal, where does it go when people have Alzheimer’s? Does it go into hibernation, and reemerge after death, as if from a long troubled sleep?

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My head feels weird like I can’t even describe and this started about last Wednesday when I was supposed to do a job and I forgot to do it. I can’t remember some stuff that happened each day like I don’t remember what happened on Friday. I remember like some parts of it but not all and same with Saturday and Sunday if I try hard too remember I may remember but sometimes I can’t. I spend too much time on the computer. Could that be the cause? I also started getting chest pains when I was in my last class. I hope its not Alzheimers. I can’t stop crying about it but if I don’t think about it I can remember very well a little, could it just be stress? I am just stressing whether its a disease or not. This usually happens when I don’t get enough sleep but I have been sleeping very early but it still doesn’t seem to go away.
I am only 16 years old.

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well as mentally abusing me,by telling me what to do in my situation in my case its my ill elderly parents,dad has severe alzheimers disease,and my mom is bedridden,we have aides for the daytime,but wiith my dad its at night that we need the help,dad roams the apartment at night and does the weirdest things,he moves things and hides the cooking things,2 years ago he defiantly yanked my mother out of her bed while still asleep, and was seen by aides acting roughly towards my mother,he thinks that being as im living here i an the nightime aide im not trained for that type of work ,at one point hes threatened me with having my bedroom door removed so i can hear things. another thing is the fact that we used to live upstairs,and my dad has flashbacks of that and once he roamed upstairs and scared the pants off the family up there,i have my door closed and locked at night,with dads condition and mental instability i dont trust him ,he might walk in my room and god knows what hed do. im sleeping in his and moms queen sized bed,the aide did that to deter my dad from yanking my mom out of her bed,hes sleeping in my bed,if i were to keep my door open da might see his bed,and me sleeping there — 1+1=2 i put numbers together and i came up with my dad seeing me in his bed sleeping,his idea? let me join my wife and sleep with her,this is the reason i want my door closed and locked at night.my brother as i said,is threatening me with having my door removed,id have no privacy!!!! and my dad could waltz in and out of my room 24/7 day or night.i dont like this sick idea of his.hes always picking on me . this is emotional and mental abuse TO ME,i cant open my mouth to retaliat because in three words—-im afraid of him!!

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hes brain injured and has alzheimers disease,,my brther enlisted my dad in a senior social club of which i belong to also,its to get him out of the house and into the company of others so he doesnt sit home on the couch and sleep.hes missed one day and i missed a day because i had to sit with him,we cannot leave him alone,this morning it was his turn to go and hes ulling his dawdling routine on me.we have an aide that comes in at 3pm,i have things to do and i will not sit home and daddy sit til the aide comes in.hes a very stubborn man thickheaded.he has no memory and wants everything his way.todayit was his turn to go to the club,im not going to sit home with dad again,i told him he cannot be left alone,his response was——who said so,i can stay home alone! he cannot be trusted alone as hes a wanderer.,hes flown the coup three times already.my mom is in the hospital and knowing my dad if left alone he might try to hike the 4 miles to the hospital,and get his tail lost.he wants his independance back and he cannot have it.why is it thaty bi always get stuck with my dad,my brother has a responsibility too i cannot be his guardian 24/7.i have a life too.
no snide remarks please ,its not easy being the only daughter and stuck with a sick father,who wants things his way 24/7,life does not work that way.hes gone for me infront of the aide twice,this man will get violent.
he just tried taking off again,one of these days ill be arrested for attempted murder,he needs help so bad and my ( beep) brother wont have it! he thinks my dad is 100 percent normal.
i dont like being called heartless either,let me see you do this alone,it aint easy brother!

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Im finishing up Sophomore year. My accumulative gpa for freshmen and sophomore year is a 3.55. My freshmen year GPA was a 3.7, 2 honors, and my Sophomore GPA will be a 3.4, 4 honors classes. Next year I expect to get somewhere in the range of 3.85 – 4.0. Im taking honors classes in the classes I’m most strong in, while taking level 2′s in the classes I am not as strong in.

Anyway, I know a 3.55 isnt that great. If I was to say keep it in that range instead of drastically improving, is it good enough to get into a good college.

Now I know this isn’t an excuse. But one of the reasons my gpa is lower this year is because of family issues. My mom had a heart attack 2 years ago, and my dad died of cancer a year and a half ago. Because of that, I suffer from extreme anxiety, constantly worrying about my mom. I just find it so hard to concentrate in school while worrying about my mom, and this anxiety makes it so hard to focus on studying, and get to sleep at a normal hour.

Also, my grandma was diagnosed with alzheimers disease this year. I was in and out of hospitals with her because of falls and other problems. I normally get home late from her retirement home where I volunteer at, leaving little time for homework.

Since colleges won’t know that story, is a 3.55 gpa good enough if I dont bring my GPA up, even though I think I will.

Ps – looking at NYU and university of maryland

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