Do you have any relatives who are old and forgetful?
When they get old, they don't remember anything. Finally, they die with blank memories. How to face it?
When your life comes to an end and you don't remember anything, who will you be and will you be full of regrets?
Every three seconds, one person in the world is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Since my father had brain surgery, he seems to have recovered well in recent years, but in fact he has obvious forgetfulness.
Often when you talk to me on the phone, you will repeat what you said several times; Many times, I will forget what my mother told me. According to my father's own words: Turn around and forget.
Although it seems that my father is serious about life and family as always, he is really old, and he is more forgetful than ordinary people.
No one wants to see their loved ones get old, let alone the old people lose their memory and control.
The "old child" in your eyes who can't take care of himself gradually, the parents who once carried all the weight of life, the relatives who spent all their energy on you and injected all their hopes into life,
Now, I am losing my clear memory, my ability to live independently, my original personality, and even my memory of you in front of you until the original one completely disappears.
This is a difficult process for anyone, whether it is the patient himself or the caregiver.
At the same time, it is also a painful process for sadness and helplessness to erode your heart for a long time.
In Elisabeth Kubler ROSS and David Kessler's book When the Green Leaves Fall Slowly (2008), the author points out that for patients with Alzheimer's Harmo's disease, we have lost them bit by bit, so our sadness begins from the day they are diagnosed.
In the whole process of companionship, in the face of someone who doesn't know you at all, you may even question whether all your choices, including your love and dedication, are correct.
There is no denying that this will be a long and painful farewell, in which the sadness is no less than the pain in other aspects.
In order to get a general understanding of the cognition of people around us, people with different identities were randomly selected to collect answers.
The problem is: if one day you lose all your memories, you can choose to remember only one thing or one person. What do you want to remember?
The answer is different.
Working youth: myself; Creator: painting; Radio anchor: Do you still remember that eight-year relationship? University teacher: my lover; Doctor: parents; On-the-job employee: girlfriend; Literary youth: the way home; Doctor: parents of husband and children; Postgraduate doctor: wife;
University teacher: meeting your child for the first time; Bank clerk: no choice, random; Middle school teacher: Chinese teacher in the third grade of primary school; Counselor: Know who you are;
It can be found that most people still want to remember a specific person, not something.
Perhaps, a person's memory can carry countless past events. Especially those who accompany themselves, lovers, children, or parents.
When you don't remember anything, but you see this person, you may still feel love. He (she) makes you love or be loved, which is very precious.
The documentary "I only know you" tells the story of an old couple in Shanghai. Their only son lives overseas all the year round.
Both elderly people are over 80 years old, so it is not easy to take care of themselves, not to mention the elderly have to take care of their wives with Alzheimer's disease.
In the end, they decided to try their best to adapt to the life in the nursing home, at least to ensure the daily life and emergency assistance of the two elderly people.
What impressed me was that my son went home to visit his parents during the Spring Festival, and my mother didn't know her son at all. She always tells doctors that her son has settled overseas and hasn't come back for many years.
My son was standing behind his mother.
I can't understand what it's like. Maybe it's also a kind of separation.
My mother who was pregnant in October is close at hand, but it is the obstacle of nerve conduction that makes her forget the most important person in this life.
All the bitterness, bitterness, yearning and expectation between those mothers and children are suddenly isolated at the end of neurons, and things are transformed.
At first, I didn't quite understand the questions you answered. Why do most people want to remember their loved ones?
It was not until they watched the documentary that the old couple gradually adapted to the life in the nursing home. They sat hand in hand on the chairs by the river, and the sun was setting, dull and quiet.
Fortunately, no matter how the old lady lost her memory and how her illness developed, she still remembered that the old gentleman around her was her lover, and she placed her unreserved trust-although she had forgotten his name.
At the end of life, the person we want to remember and can remember is our other half's life.
The object of faith can be our ultimate spiritual yearning and dependence, and it can also be regarded as the precious light of our own faith, because they witness why we set out, how much effort we made and when we arrived.
I believe that followers of other religions are also more willing to choose their own gods, gods, gods and sages.
Because the spiritual carrier to which these people are attached may become the light that we will never lose in the dark night, and finally let us redeem ourselves when our lives are reshaped.
The film Alice Still (20 14) won the Best Actress Award at the 87th Academy Awards.
In the film, Alice is a very smart and capable college linguistics professor. At the age of 50, she was diagnosed with early Alzheimer's disease.
The chances of getting sick at this age are very small. She has a family history, and this genetic probability is even less.
Unfortunately, however, she has to gradually face the difficult process from being a linguist to gradually forgetting things in life, simple words, people and who she is.
This process was full of shame at first, and I was ashamed of my "imbecility". Gradually, I am unwilling, helpless and lonely.
She looked at herself and forgot the child's name, the simple month and everything she was familiar with.
This forgetting is a forced alienation from the world she loves. When everything is gone, her body and mind are degenerating, and she can't even take care of herself.
When a person wants to grasp everything, but he is so helpless, will he feel that his burden is reduced a little besides being lonely for a hundred years?
This is a difficult problem for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Theoretically, it is impossible to completely cure Alzheimer's disease with current medical science. But we still have some key measures worth trying, and they are in our lives.
Before knowing how to do it, it is necessary to understand the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease and the current medical countermeasures.
In our brain, the function of synapses is to transmit information. In addition to releasing neurotransmitters (such as glutamic acid), a small molecule protein (β-amyloid) is also released.
Usually, β -amyloid is eliminated by microglia metabolism. Although the cause of Alzheimer's disease is still controversial at the molecular level, most experts believe that when β -amyloid cannot be eliminated, excessive accumulation in synapses will condense and form amyloid plaques.
This is the initial state of the disease and there are no symptoms at first.
It usually takes 15-20 years to get obvious symptoms.
When amyloid plaques accumulate to a critical point, microglia will become extremely active, and they will release chemicals, causing inflammation and cell damage.
At this time, an important conducting protein called TAU protein will be over-phosphorylated, turning itself into "fibrous tangles" and blocking neurons from the inside.
This is the middle stage of Hamor's disease. At this time, there will be a lot of inflammation and tangles in our synapses and cells will die.
At present, most drugs are used to prevent, eliminate and reduce the accumulation of amyloid plaques. At this time, the patient has obvious symptoms, and such treatment lags behind.
Although there is still no more effective treatment in science, our daily methods can play a positive role.
For example, deep sleep improves the quality of sleep.
During deep sleep, our glial cells will flush the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain, and when we are awake, it will remove the metabolic waste accumulated in synapses. Deep sleep is like a powerful purification of the brain.
Such as maintaining cardiovascular health.
Research shows that 80% of patients with Alzheimer's Harmo's disease suffer from cardiovascular diseases in different degrees.
Therefore, a reasonable and light diet and certain aerobic exercise can effectively prevent cardiovascular diseases, thus preventing Alzheimer's disease.
Such as continuous learning, especially learning new knowledge.
From the perspective of neuroplasticity and cognitive reserve, when we learn new things, we will create and strengthen new neural connections and new synapses.
People with many years of formal education, people with high academic qualifications and people who often participate in mental stimulation activities will have more knowledge reserves.
There will be many new neurons to reduce the confusion in the brain.
By learning new things, we create new neural pathways and increase our cognitive reserves.
However, as the above film shows, even intellectuals with higher education may suffer from Alzheimer's disease.
At the end of the film, she has completely lost her ability to take care of herself, like an orphan who has just arrived on this strange planet, accompanied by her little daughter who once disagreed most.
When her daughter told her her own drama script, she asked her, Do you understand?
She answered slowly and painfully: love.
There is no denying that when we forget everything, love will never disappear.
As a neurologist said, with Harmonism, you will die soon, but you will continue to live.
You won't lose emotional memory, but you can still understand love and happiness.
You won't remember the exact content, but you will still feel love.
Perhaps, love is the best starting point and the final destination.
In the end, you are always more meaningful than you remember.
Because, you loved, and you loved.
May all those who have loved never lose themselves.