I genuinely hope no one close to you has to go through it. But essentially yeah. It has varying degrees of severity and manifests differently but it is literally your brain fucking with you. Confusing memories for the present, mood swings, temporary amnesia. It's a fucking nightmare and it breaks my heart to know he's experiencing it. I'm 30 and have it in writing that I want to be euthanized if it happens to me (we recently got that option and it let my grandfather go out on his own free will surrounded by family instead of dragging on his misery for years and being a burden he had lung issues but my grandmother on my mom's side had pretty severe dementia from a head injury before she went and it terrifies me to me core beyond anything else.
I genuinely hope no one close to you has to go through it. But essentially yeah. It has varying degrees of severity and manifests differently but it is literally your brain fucking with you. Confusing memories for the present, mood swings, temporary amnesia. It's a fucking nightmare and it breaks my heart to know he's experiencing it. I'm 30 and have it in writing that I want to be euthanized if it happens to me (we recently got that option and it let my grandfather go out on his own free will surrounded by family instead of dragging on his misery for years and being a burden he had lung issues but my grandmother on my mom's side had pretty severe dementia from a head injury before she went and it terrifies me to me core beyond anything else.