This is a portion of roseblowers recent post: quote: "fear is a big part of the disease. Fear and emotional distress, because the person is still in there and altho they are more comfortable with their own reality, they know things are not right or normal, and it scares them." Unquote

This is soooo true...the book "Still Alice" is fictional but really captures a lot of the feelings of the "victim". My father died in a nursing home from Alzheimer's Disease so our family got a close up, personal look at a stranger who looked like our dad...but wasn't.

"Speaking our minds" is not fictional...the author chronicles 7 patients dxed with Alzheimers from their point of view...from their losses.