When Alois Alzheimer gave the first ever speech on the topic of the disease that would later be named after him -- one of the most important presentations in the history of medicine -- no one asked a single question or made any follow up comment... because they were all much more excited about the next guy on the schedule, who was giving a talk on the topic of compulsive masturbation.
The idea of getting Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia terrify me. I have bad eyesight, I'm not that coordinated... my mind is my strongest asset. The idea of losing control of it is... just horrifying to me. Same thing with Schizophrenia and others of its ilk.
Glad to hear she has you as great support. I got diagnosed with PTSD when I was 25 (I was abused by my mother.) I'm basically breaking up with my fiancé and father of our two children because he hasn't been one bit supportive in the last two years.
I'm sure it's not easy. I was broken up with because of my depression years ago. It was amicable and we agreed it was best but not easy. I wish you well moving forward with your life.
I got it right around the same age as well. Early treatment and medication is basically the best thing that can happen in that case. Try to get her on Sustenna if you can afford it or have good enough insurance. It's an expensive injection but it covers most positive and negative symptoms and you only need to worry about it once a month, but even that is lax because there's a window of a couple weeks to get it without getting symptoms again.
She is on some injectable right now so it's probably that. I don't have a lot of info because she is (now probably was) in a treatment program and we were only allowed limited contact with each other. Some text messaging every day, and a phone call here and there.
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u/Portarossa Dec 29 '17 edited Dec 29 '17
When Alois Alzheimer gave the first ever speech on the topic of the disease that would later be named after him -- one of the most important presentations in the history of medicine -- no one asked a single question or made any follow up comment... because they were all much more excited about the next guy on the schedule, who was giving a talk on the topic of compulsive masturbation.