Mummy's Girl
Hi,
You must go to your group meeting, they really take away that feeling that you are the only one that feels as you do.
When I can I go to a group in my area called Pathfinders. It is a group basically for younger people with dementia. It is part social and part informative. We all take our partner/relative etc with dementia.
What we do is have a cup of coffee etc. and small talk until everyone has arrived, then we split into two groups- carers and dementia sufferers. we, the carers then talk about anything at all, it may be how you are feeling at the time, or could be about the various benefits available, and the various other facilty's etc. could be financial issues such are Direct Payments or more practical issues such as the best type of incontinence pads to get.
After our split discussions we then re-join our partners and then have a little quiz or a game etc. On occasions there may be a speaker from the various related Services. On other occasions we may have for instance - relflexology/ head massages/ etc.
I cant go as often as I like as my husband suffers from Frontal Temporal Dementia( Picks Disease) and he is at the stage where he is really unsettled and finds it difficult to just sit etc.
But do go- I always come away with the feeling that I am not mentally alone.
Anything else you want to talk about - please feel free at any timre.
regards
dee x