Posts Tagged ‘mental illness’

Frontotemporal dementia. “Dementia,” a solitary word, is terrifying. Coupled with “frontotemporal,” it is annihilating. I was looking for another newspaper article entirely when I glanced at this one, skimming paragraphs. The sentence “…had started hoarding, filling her house with…” screamed at me. The act of hoarding was a documented symptom of the sufferer’s dementia. The list…