Ive often been asked what it actually feels like to have Alzheimers / dementia and was asked to sum it up in a few words to be used within centers training care givers so that people could almost feel our daily confusions this is what I wrote:

As you read this place yourself in the shoes of a person who has Alzheimers or any other type of dementia

Synonyms of Confusion


Hypothetically
speaking, this is all much
the same, but place yourself
within my daily mental disarray,

Confusion, confusions, confusing a mind,
mystified, conundrums of dementia affray,
perplexity, perplexing, at my every thought,
bewildered in bewilderment, I wander astray,
puzzlement, as I cant understand what you said,
uncertainty, now grips me as my confidence is dead,
baffled, as I cant regulate or restrain anything that I do,
understanding, of my illness completely defies your days,
misunderstanding, what you said, so misconstruction prevails,
disorientated, unsettled, mixed-up, all at sea, now thats truly me,
incomprehension, lack of understanding, blankness, at what to say,
disorder, turmoil, chaos, disarray, all part of the conundrum within
Alzheimers disease


Barry
http://www.simplesite.com/BarrysAlzheimers