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Anyone deal with Dementia AND Narcissistic personality disorder?
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@chrisbayne, your post reminded me of this older post started by @IndianaScott
- The Caregivers' Guilt Dumpster - Open for business
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/the-caregivers-guilt-dumpster-open-for-business/
I'm glad that you shared about your spouses cognitive decline and how it has manifested in narcissism. Staying calm and carry on sounds simple but we all know it isn't easy. How do you get respite time?
Replies to "@chrisbayne, your post reminded me of this older post started by @IndianaScott - The Caregivers' Guilt..."
Hi Colleen. I get respite time when my wife is at OakWood Creative Care in Mesa. Her schedule is supposedly 1:30 am to 3:00 pm, but she is reticent and inordinately slow to go in the morning. When I pick her up in the afternoon, she most often seems happy how the day has gone. The steady yet slow decline in language skills, and frequent outbursts of anger, have me feeling that my life is a conundrum. In the past year I have become familiar with being exasperated.
Best wishes to you and yours. And I hope your Christmas is a happy one.
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No he was Narcissistic personality for well over 50 years. The only thing that manifested was how much worse Dementia makes it. Respite time? What world do you live in.? I'm not being rude, but for alot of people in my situation we "soldier" on, destroy our own health, while the health professional tell us "they are so sorry we are dealing with this" or offer us drugs. Therapy offers no real solution. I have tried for years to find someone to help. My anxiety and depresssion is t hrough the roof. I am so damaged, its hard to deal with anything rationally anymore.