{UAH} Serious diagnosis by Dr. La'Kitgum: Repetition in people with dementia

About "GOING AFTER ALLAN BARIGYE THE FORUM BULY WITH HARD FACTS"

Baboons,

As usual, I like to make my opponents see my lethal fist coming to rearrange their faces, ie, being blatant and straight for the jugular.

One of us in UAH seriously needs help - remote, hybrid or onsite. I can offer remote.

The non-applicable themetic subject header that has flowed on UAH posts monotonously for months requires members not to brush away the sender as an attention-seeker (though close enough) but as someone struggling with a situation/condition that requires our communal help, aka. assistance.

I happen to have worked extensively with Alzheimer's and mental health patients at various stages of mental health conditions and able to, well, diagnose a person who is trending towards these calamities. First, know that at the moment Alzheimer's/dementia is irreversible. You go down hill for good.

Now, many people don't know the difference btwn Alzheimer's and dementia. Let me say, there is and there is not, as I will briefly explain below.

Alzheimer's starts in the brain many years before symptoms start to appear. It is only when symptoms become severe enough to be called "Demetia". Meaning, Alzheimer's is a specific disease and it is the most common cause of Demetia.

Now that you know, as fronted at the beginning, we have a member who may deny this but after a long observation (remote) I have concluded all signs show he suffers from either one, or all or a combination of more that one of the highlited mental conditions below.

During internship at Graduate School of Health Administration Baboon was "sadly" assigned the task of evaluating patient care at a hospital on the East Coast exclusive to army veterans with such conditions. 

I said "sadly" because it is one of the most depressing hospital or clinical unit to work in - seeing healthy bodies with no cognitive abilities. Seeing grandchildren rush to hug a grandpa who can't recognize them. Even more depressing for one of the hospitals was that every patient in there was a soldier - including Generals. I saw them.

In later years I found myself catapulted across the continent to the West Coast developing the first one-of-a-kind digitized mental health registry (akin to transplant registries) in Canada for British Columbia.

In both places I produced volumes of ad hoc working documents which have impacted care and are available on request, viz:

1. Irreversible Demetia Unit Evaluation: Veterans' Memorial Hospital, Queen Elizabeth II, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2. British Columbia Mental Health Registry: Systems and Cost Requirements Analysis, Riverview Hospital, Vancouver, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia 

So, I speak or write this with a reasonable amount of authority on the subject matter.

With my kind of experience i can smoke out many fakes in Butabika, given the chance - at a frightening cost.

But, yes, I can revamp and revolutionize mental health care in Kagutastan to the envy of all our neighbors.

Let me reveal something very disturbing about mental health in The Continent,  Africa that is.

I have often heard many Africans refer to dementia White people disease and hardly found in Africa.

In fact, we have millions of them and at least one or more in every village each of us comes from... unless you are Homeless.

At any given time an elderly person becomes ever so forgetful or act awkwardly we, Baboons, have been quick to say old man or old woman has gone "Mad" or is gradually going "Mad".

Nope. That is Demetia.

See what my good uncle Google says of the UAH dementia patient-in-the-making.

Perseveration

People who perseverate often say the same thing or behave in the same way over and over again. But they can get stuck on their emotions, actions, and thoughts, too. And they do it past the point where it makes sense or will change anything

Echolalia

Echolalia is the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another person (when repeated by the same person, it is called palilalia). In its profound form it is automatic and effortless. It is one of the echophenomena, closely related to echopraxi.

Repetitive Behavior and Alzheimer's

Many have a condition called echolalia, in which the patient repeats words endlessly.

Why is this happening?

Some reasons why a person with dementia may repeat themselves:

• The person's short-term memory is impaired and they have no recollection of having already said or asked something.
• The person's repetitive questions may suggest both a need for information and an emotional need. Repeated stories often represent highly significant memories.
• The person may repeat themselves because they want to communicate and cannot find anything else to say.
• The person might have become 'stuck' on a particular word, phrase or action.
• The person might be bored and under-occupied.

And there is....

OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) that we all know or heard about....unless otherwise. 

Oh, by the way, it is spelt "bully" with a double "L" (in behavioral). "Buly" on the other hand is a perfume name and the last time I checked Allan Barigye, dude was smelling pungent Virunga volcanic sulphur ash and that ain't a good smell even a bit.

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