Dementia Self-Management

Oxford Languages define dementia as this.

·      a condition characterized by progressive or persistent loss of intellectual functioning, especially with impairment of memory and abstract thinking, and often with personality change, resulting from organic disease of the brain.

To get a head start on dementia, one must first recognize when it occurs. If it happens and one does not self-admit it, one cannot do anything about it. One must self-study the memory process. One must admit when it happens and check to see how the system processes and deprives the self, even of vital information.

Even in the youth of a body, there are memory lapses, but those may not be taken seriously. One may explain to others that one forgot a certain event or location, but one is not alarmed by this usually. However, when the body passes fifty years of age, memory slips. It becomes inexcusable because then one has a bigger sense of responsibility, and feels that a lack of information is costly.

It is inconvenient when one is requested to provide information about a past event, and one cannot retrieve it. One may feel embarrassed. In some instances, the other party realizes that one lacks the ability to recall relevant information. Then there is a feeling of inadequacy. With that there is embarrassment.

When one realizes that one has no grasp on a valuable memory, one may fish around in the mind to grab it, and to make it illustrate itself. But then nothing happens. One is left in a blank state with nothing to show for it, not even to show to oneself. This causes an action of evasion, where one shifts from the place in the mind, where one feels inadequate.

It is at that time, when the body is fifty or more, that one should, especially when one is alone, look inside the mind to determine the sequence of events which began as a request for a memory. After that effort for recall, there may be a retrieval of a non-legible memory package. Then there may be the partial miniscule illustration of the start of the recall. Then there may be the receding of the memory. It may flash for a second and then be lost completely.

The fact that a person who experienced lost memories, also has clear detailed recall of other past events, shows that the neurological machinery which grasps, illustrates and makes memories legible, works efficiently some of the time. There are instances where someone who cannot grasp a much needed memory, recalls some other incidence in great detail. This causes one to wonder what triggers and fulfills illustration of such uncalled-for memories.

To reduce the incidences of lack of recall, there are some psychological actions one may take. As for example, one should do the following.

Get sufficient sleep. If one can afford it, one may get a little more than what is sufficient. The purpose of this is to rest the nervous systems, to give it time to repair. A tire man needs rest. A taxed brain and nervous system need amply space away from stress complications and calculations.

Reduce media intake. Realize that media must be processed. That requires nerve stimulation. These are mental and emotional actions which are fatiguing to the psyche and nervous system.

Reduce social interactions. Social affairs are taxing to the nervous system. They are emotional expenditures whih requires much energy for process. One should budget the social interaction. One should eliminate or reduce those social relationships which are non-productive and which go nowhere. For some which are mandatory, or which are forced into one’s life circumstantially, one should relate to them only superficially. One should not allow the mind to put a high value on such interactions. Otherwise, these will utilized attention power, which should be reserved for necessary interactions.

Take notes when important but delayed instances arise. As soon as someone reaches fifty years of age or older, that person should carry paper or a device for making notations about anything important, which should be remembered. This will assist the mind in memory recall. As the body ages, it will lose capacity for full recall of every event, even of ones which it noted. hence one can assist an aging brain by making notation of important circumstances. This reduces the psychological energy which is required for memory operations.

An older brain cannot process every event efficiently. With notes, the brain has a subsidy where it does not have to expend itself to recall every event. Hence it will function more efficiently, as it will not have to record, store and illustrate so many instances.