So regarding personality changes associated with MCI, I will tell my story here. The principal element of the three symptoms of MCI (memory, cognition, and emotion affect) that my wife is affected by is Emotional Management. The best way for me to see and cope with that is to identify three different personas that can be present alternating several times per day, at times. The first persona is GG, which is a fun positive and delightful person. The second persona (normal) is her real name which I won’t mention here due to privacy considerations. The third persona is Gertrud. That one is chronically Negative, angry, self absorbed and irrational. Gertrud can appear at an innocuous triggering. And can remain all day. (I have yet to find the ‘off switch’). So for now, adequate functionality exists to permit me to leave the scene, for hours or even a whole day.
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