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I believe that people with dementia are making an important journey from cognition, through emotion, into spirit. I've begun to realize what really remains throughout this journey is what is really important, and what disappeares is what is not important...
There is cognitive outer self, which is the mask thet we are presenting when we are at work or at home. Organising, planning, writing, speaking, shopping, cooking, all sorts of complex activities make up what we think we are. We have labels for ourselves, names, jobs, addresses, memories about our past, ideas for our future. We communicate these as part of defining our outer masks. When we meet each other, it is a description of our masks that we seek...
But there is another layer just beneath, an emotional layer, that defines tha way we relate to others. This emotional layer is becoming more and more scrambled in our journey with dementia. It is less predictable, we are less in control, and our feelings are more disjointed.
Beneath this increasingly jumbled layer of emotion is the true self that remains intact despite that ravages of dementia. This is my spiritual self or transcendent self. It is the "me" that relates to the beauty of a garden, of the leaves or the flowers; it is the "me" that relates to God; it is my spirit, the essence of me.
The real self cannot exist independently in our society, which defines people by the outer layers of cognition and emition, by our masks...

Christine Bryden "Dancing with Dementia"

Очень интересная книга, написанная женщиной, которой в 1996 году поставили диагноз "Деменция по типу болезни Альцгеймера" - ей тогда было всего 46. Очень страшная болезнь изнутри.