Dementia (taken from Latin, originally meaning "madness", from de- "without" + ment, the root of mens "mind")
I thought my grandpa was invincible. And he always seemed that way. He's gone insane, and lost his mind. Dementia. Did you know it literally means "without mind"?. My grandpa was always silly...forgetting where things were that he just had and told us crazy stories, but we never would have guessed. It went from losing things to thinking my cousin was a prostitute by force- and threatening to kill everyone involved and my other cousin was the leader of a gang.
My grandpa was always loving, I'd never heard him say anything bad about anyone; Now he goes between loving us, and hating each and every single one of us. Or sometimes, he simply says "I have no kids". This is exhausting, because I don't want to believe anything could effect that man. He was always my hero and my biggest fan. The nicest man in the world. How could he be saying these things?
This is not my grandpa, this is not his threats. I want him to come back, sane and in his mind. I don't want to accept it, but I have to. He's in the psych ward now, for 6 weeks. Then my Papaw can come home, If MY papaw comes home at all- is a different question