Sir I am suffering in dementia but nobody is trusting me & people are treating me like a mad. I have consulted a neurologist of apollo hospital hyderabad but he has tried to hide the things for mmy good sake saying that I am just in depression and now my legs are getting heavy and weak gradually. I lost my memory ability upto 70% so my fluency also got down as you can observe from my writing.

Dr. Saranya DevanathanPsychiatrist47yrs exp

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Dear lybrate-user, Dementia is an old/middle age problem. Memory loss at your age, will NOT be due to dementia. Probably your neurologist is right in saying, it is depression. He is NOT hiding dementia. After 2-3 weeks of Stalopam (antidepressant - not sleeping pills - take it in the morning itself) and betacap, get back to him. He may adjust the dose depending on your memory abilities and fluency. Or he may refer you to a psychiatrist for better management of your preoccupation of dementia. 

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