Alzheimer Affecting Families
July 10, 2008
I have a friend and her grandmother has Alzheimer’s. One day we were talking about this sickness and how it affects everyone in the family emotionally. With Alzheimer’s, the loved one endures this illness and doesn’t even have any idea of the world around.
My friend expressed her feelings saying, “It breaks my heart every time I see my grandma; especially, when she doesn’t recognize me and I can’t help her in anyway.” On the other hand, however, when things are normal people look forward to enjoy the time spent with their loved one. As I pondered more on this thought it struck me. It is all about the mindset and preconditioning the mind.
I turned to my friend and asked her to approach this situation from a totally different perspective. That is, when you get ready to go for your next visit you may try preconditioning your mind. Imagine as if this is going to be your first visit and the joy of the first time meeting will overtake everything. This idea takes your mind off of your previous visits and you won’t be frustrated because of hearing the same questions over and over. Moreover, you have set your mind and decided to enjoy the visit to have a good time no matter what.
Overall, there are circumstances in life that we cannot change. However, a better mindset can help turn the situation around and provides improvement in whatever the state of affairs may be.
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You know I always felt bad for the Alzheimer patient. I never really thought about the families related to them.
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I like the fact how you talked about the families. Most of the time family is forgotten because of the distress they are going through.