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19-Year-Old Developed Early-Onset Demensia After Covid

#dementia#alzheimers#asianparents#buddhism#meditation
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0:00 thank you [Music] all right this is sort of sad um actually it's extremely sad why did I say sorted you're gonna this is gonna break your heart ready yeah there's my why are you mess with my cupcake everyone's yelling at me I'm so there's this 19 year old girl and uh she's her behavior starts changing and her parents are kind of like what's going on with her she starts to like lose her General enthusiasm for things not laughing as much her grades she was getting straight A's and then goes to a failing level wow um she just couldn't get out of bed and they suspected that it was um what's it called it was like a side effect of Kobe you know long covet yeah yeah so that was brain fog turns out so she's 19 and it turns out She's

0:52 suffering from dementia oh oh wow like one of the youngest cases ever holy what trigger did do they say or not I think it was cultured mushrooms they think they think it could be stemming from a like a car accident that she was in they don't know for sure but she's she's getting dementia so quickly to the level of uh she doesn't even know like she doesn't knows that she has anything wrong with her so she her uh her mentality actions are deviating into total apathy she just does nothing wow because it just like hit so fast does she eat and stuff or like normal human barely yeah she can't she can't remember how to do anything oh my God isn't that so extreme like she's just she's just all the information and doubt is just like dude that's inaccessible in her

1:42 brain that's one of my biggest fears then that's a tremendous negative into a positive she'd be really good at meditating God damn God damn it we can't win with that argument on this side that's am I am I I think I should run with that let's hear it all right now I have to support turn it into a point so this is why Ken's right so if she was Buddhist you think she would reach yes because literally she started just sit there and you just well she's white okay Ken I don't know if she can't focus for that long yeah I don't think she could focus for that long don't you think yeah you do have to focus but you don't have to not think of anything what happens so look if I my intention of meditating is I'm sitting upright and I fall asleep in the middle of my meditation am I still meditating no you're just you can meditate in your sleep I haven't done it but it's a thing how

2:32 would you know huh you are aware so that you're not sleeping then well because you know how you can be aware okay let's just move on comment below what you think that's Advanced Buddhism yes moving on how advanced is Buddhism where you can sit in your style and then jump off jump up into the into the sky that's like first level yeah very soon you can like just jump sitting Indian style and I saw a shot do that I was like yeah dude you could even do it you could even do a backflip from sitting Indian style you know what I mean I just want to jump out of a pool yeah and like just land outside last time how's your memory is I mean 19 is when it started she's 20 now but does she know who she is still probably not so

3:22 she's she doesn't know anything she doesn't do anything is it bad to wonder would it be like to date her no no because you'd probably get her hit Adam Sandler movie out of it right [Laughter] the glasses go on dude yeah but um yeah they think she she was in a car crash that compressed discs in her neck so that could be linked to it bro the brain is fragile dog yeah you just never know what it's gonna do you think a chiropractor would help in that situation I think he would say he could help yeah family Drive here take these essential oils and rub it on the base of your neck a lot of the insurance covered it the chiropractor can do no wrong you don't want to be

4:13 crazy if like a miracle happened and she just like randomly started or her parents suggested her to do whatever medicine and just the opposite happened where she has such a great memory that she retains so much information like people who can much people who could like look through a book and and yeah the what they just read that's with it like she could tap into more of her brain right it just completely slingshots the other way yeah I mean if there's still no treatment are there ever any cases of people recovering from dementia I don't think so they've never had so much work that's being done but it's it's interesting this is definitely one of the younger cases ever there's currently no cure and um because and they said it's unlikely that they there can be a single cure because dementia is

5:03 caused by so many different diseases and every every neuroscientist in the world always says we don't know anything about the brain so essentially dementia is just certain things turning off in the brain or what like it's it's like a kind of like a brain deadness yeah in a way but they said like once you're diagnosed with it your life expectancy from that point is around eight to ten years holy crap is it because they just stopped doing whatever and they don't eat they don't and then your quality of life was without things that you can you know remember or have some sort of foundation with it's just every function in your body needs your brain can you also just like die from it is that a thing I don't know just like I think so better just like the other things from not oh you die as a result of like a movement like her parents I'm assuming they're practical parents they're probably trying everything that they hear yeah

5:54 like oh hey there's try this ancient blah blah blah go try this meditation go try the chiropractor they're probably doing everything possibly also because she's young maybe there could be a shot is that because like maybe her yeah does your brain keep developing until you're 25 because yeah most people that get dementia are like 80 or 90s right yeah so did you say she was an accident or was that she was up in my mind she was in a car accident that the compressed her discs but they don't know if that's correlated because it's not like it happened right after right like she was fine for a while Adventure is also a genetic too right is it I think it is I think we're not scientists here or doctors well a lot of brains I'll just answer that um yeah I think so I think sometimes it is genetic sometimes it's not yeah imagine it's just clearly not I stayed

6:44 at a Hollywood in Express last night what is the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's that's a good question the name dementia is a general term for a decline in mental ability Alzheimer's is the specific disease okay so so Alzheimer could fall under dementia yeah yeah Alzheimer's is a type of dementia oh dementia is the general term for decline of cognitive ability dang yeah so it's the process so it's a generalized yeah so because there's so many functions oh Alzheimer's is hard to pinpoint what it is a type of dementia it's like saying it's like saying muscle atrophy versus versus random or something yeah oh okay maybe yeah I didn't hear you so I think Alzheimer's is a type of dementia right thank you guys let's say this one more time

7:35 everybody around send it home sit home do you understand so like dementia is like the umbrella Alzheimer would be under the umbrella are you sure she looks cool too that's her that's Gianna oh and she's just like sad bro 20 she's 20 now and like imagine that dude how heartbreaking is that to be a parent and then your kid at 19. just can't like process anything what do you do bro like what do you do I mean at least she's alive I guess sort of an upside but like are you really you know what if she had Asian parents oh man imagine that because like even like when you're already doing stuff your Asian parents don't think it's enough yeah oh my God she's probably not doing enough are you saying she's getting beat by her Asian parents because what if they don't understand it I don't understand yeah you're just being lazy wake up yeah yeah

8:25 like because they don't they'll clear your room why are you just sitting there dude you want to hear you want to hear the freaking worst thing what oh the um her mom goes I recently asked her what's the happiest moment of your life she just looked confused and said I don't remember that's you know that's what I was thinking is it was even harder more difficult for appearances she can't the parents can't offer a bucket list of things for her to do before she dies yeah exactly she doesn't know she says no she's doing anything yeah so they're just sitting there helpless but that's why I'm saying like with meditation it's not about doing what you're gonna do right it's just what's going on right now that's very I think to me so that's like probably the closest thing meditation might be too high level for her too maybe kind of like well we don't know yeah no I'm saying for someone with dementia like

9:16 you have to explain it and you have to explain it again and then she has to be able to connect the dots but not with the cool app of headspace can you imagine if a doctor if she went to like a Vietnamese doctor and he's like I'm gonna prescribe you eight milliliters of uh Buddhism oh dang give him some books check it out some books books read about Buddhism they're just like there's nothing they can do the mom's just like I pray there's a treatment there's nothing like we already know because what's sadness she probably doesn't know why she's here but then the Kent could verbalize yeah like but is she conscious like is she there like it's it's like it's like it's kind of like a half and half because it's like you're aware that you're alive but as soon as you realize you're alive you forgot you realized it so it's like a general like Loop of that's why they

10:07 say she's just completely apathetic because she doesn't bother doing like a blank slate almost but she's still yeah it's like she why bother doing something when you thought of doing it and then you forgot to do it and you don't know you did it but there is also like an upside of like well at least you you won't remember like all the bad stuff that you feel either you know what I mean like she won't feel sad about it because she will forgot that it even happened it's like so extreme that like it's like nothing exists bro if I'm ever in that state just put a pillow in my face but how would you until I stopped stop kicking are you on that boat of like plug pull me oh dude if I there's no shot no shot nobody could ever say there's no shot I mean what if you what if this could be like the first miracle case like because she's so young that yeah something could uh if they're regenerating if there's somebody to

10:57 Rally behind um if there's somebody a cure for this yeah if there's somebody to Rally behind and to like throw spaghetti on the wall you deal with this girl you know what I mean yeah throw spaghetti in the walls even sticks oh make sure it's al dente no

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