Personality Can Be Changed By Dementia
CNN reports that Kenny Sparks was a “handsome man with a big smile.” Sparks was the co-owner of a multimillion-dollar business with a wife and two kids in college. He was well-known and well-liked. Then he started to change at age 49.
“He was stumbling over words,” said his wife Cheryl. “And he would forget what he was saying – but at almost 50, I think we all tend to do that.”
His family thought that Sparks had Alzheimer’s disease at first. He was eventually diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and his personality began to change.
“He just wasn’t Kenny,” said his wife.
“He’d tell stupid jokes all the time,” said his son Graham. “And on [a family trip], he wasn’t telling jokes. He was sitting there with a blank stare on his face.”
His daughter Alexandra noticed the change, too: “He exercised all the time. He would swim constantly and he ate well. And all of a sudden he was downing gallons of ice cream. Gallons!”
He was taken to doctor by his wife Cheryl. It is confirmed from the cognitive tests that “he couldn’t draw a clock and put the numbers or hands on it,” she said.
His personality will be changed by FTD doctors said this to Cheryl. It will steel his ability to communicate and finally will end taking his life. Frontal and temporal lobes of brain gets damaged by neurodegenerative disorders. Reasoning, communication, social awareness, and memory are controlled by this part of brain. Once the FTD starts to develop it leaves the patient in confused state.
Dr. Murray Grossman of the University of Pennsylvania explains, “Many patients will lose their inhibitions. They’ll act totally inappropriately, leaving their families to wonder what is wrong. Some patients will have no problem spending the family fortune, taking all their money and putting it into scams, get-rich-quick schemes, or going off and buying an expensive car or boat the family doesn’t need. The patients lose their reasoning. What’s particularly frustrating for family members is, the patients don’t seem to have much insight into the difficulties they are having or causing for others.”
On a average 250,000 Americans are affected by Frontotemporal dementia. Mostly it is misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease. Almost all the experts are not sure about the cause of this dementia.
Kenny Sparks was diagnosed with FTD four years ago. Now he can no longer drive a car. His wife had to quit her job to take care of him.
“His need to be with me is constant, because he feels safe,” she said. “He can’t read a clock, so he’ll get up at 3 a.m. and that’s when we start our day . . . Now he’s more like a child, most times.”
What so tough to deal with dementia?
“There is no one hardest part,” Cheryl said. “Well, for me, knowing that the man I thought I was going to grow old with – I’m not, I guess. Yes, that’s the hardest part.”
IF dementia attacks you can be sure that one will lose his personality to it. On a good note dementia can also be prevented. Christian Goodman a natural researcher has formed a easy and simple set of exercises that increases the blood flow to brain and in turn prevents dementia.
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