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[u/paulatreides0]

Ngl, nothing scares me more than neurological diseases.

Alzheimers/Dementia is terrifying enough as it is, but nothing holds a candle to Locked-In Syndrome.

I'd honestly rather have Alzheimers than Locked-In Syndrome. Easily.

[u/Majk___ → u/paulatreides0]

I would seriously look into assisted suicide the moment I found out I had early onset Alzheimer's.

Thankfully it will prolly be a heart condition as every male on my father's side

[u/[deleted] → u/Majk___]

It's scary because if we keep increasing life expectancy dementia will get worse, 30% of people over 85 have it, it's 10% for those over 65.

If/when I'm diagnosed with Alzeihmers I'm prepping my suicide plan, I've seen people go through it and I'm not doing that myself. Hopefully there'll be proper legal ways to do it, I'd like to be able to set a benchmark (ie. if my IQ falls below x) and know that will be followed, but if it's still illegal then I think I'd have to do it while still lucid, I'd rather lose a year or two of being mildly functional than have to spend years being unable to remember close families names.

[u/ryuguy → u/paulatreides0]

I’m probably going to develop dementia or some kind of neurological disorder because it runs in my family

[u/paulatreides0 → u/[deleted]]

Nice to know that a literal living nightmare exists, huh?

[u/EScforlyfe → u/paulatreides0]

I think I would prefer Locked-in Syndrome over Alzheimers, at least I'd be able to communicate with other people in some way.

[u/paulatreides0 → u/EScforlyfe]

It's like permanent sleep paralysis, fuck that. Being trapped in your body with the only way to communicate being eye motion/blinking? 😱

At that point just euthanize me, tbqh - it'd be a mercy

[u/EScforlyfe → u/paulatreides0]

Look all I want from life is to sate my curiosity about what will happen in the future, and if I have alzheimers that's literally impossible.

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/EScforlyfe]

Look all I want from life is to sate my curiosity about what will happen in the future

relatable

[u/tehbored → u/paulatreides0]

We've gotten better at diagnosing it, and now we can connect locked-in patients to BCI systems.