Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for May 07, 2024

From Psychology Today

People often forget that they have dementia

One thing that is tricky about dementia is that people literally have trouble remembering all the times that they forget things. It is for this reason that they often underestimate how impaired their memory is—or they may not remember that they are impaired at all. Similarly, as their hippocampus deteriorates, they may completely forget that they have dementia, such that every time they are told they have the disorder, they experience the news as if they are hearing it for the first time.

Don’t worry (even more) … that new worry makes up for the one your senior lapse forgot, so it evens out.

Worry about dinner.

I worry about my senior memory lapses.

Worry about what?

If you started out a bit demented, should you worry that no one will notice the difference?

I didn’t forget, I wasn’t paying attention in the first place.

No worries you won’t remember anyway

I don’t think you’ll need to worry about that.

Just goes to show you: Sometimes two wrongs CAN make a right!

Forgetting to worry seems like a good thing to me.

How is it when leaving for someplace, the brain can tell us we are forgetting something but can’t tell us just what it is!