General Discussion

They all involve forgetfulness but in different ways. Alzheimer's is the one which is notorious for causing the patient to forget family members and other nearest and dearest. But there are other forms. Those of us over 70 are probably familiar with the jest "I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter. Several times a day I walk into a room and ask myself, 'Now, what am a here after?'" Not that doesn't also happen to younger people. I'm not a doctor and can't diagnose the Apricot Antichrist, and if I were, I couldn't do it from afar, nor from a simple cognitive test. But we can't be certain it's Alzheimer's on the ground that he is hostile - he has always been hostile.