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Frontotemporal Dementia: The Disease That Looks Like Mental Illness
Doctors kept saying it was just anxiety or depression. They put her on 72-hour holds and sent her to behavioral health.
It wasn’t. It was frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
This video is for every son and only child who is watching their parent loop on the same fears — the power is being shut off, people are breaking into the house, the taxes aren’t paid, they have no health insurance — while the system keeps calling it a mental health problem.
I walked this road with my mom starting in May 2024. I’m sharing exactly what happened, the signs I missed, the hard emotional truth, and the five things…
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