Re: Patti

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Hi Patti,

I have to say, I think what you are describing is an

age thing, because I don't think what you are speaking

of here pertains just to people with LBD or dementia.

I think this is a common age thing. And I have read

that it is normal with age to forget a word you are

trying to remember or forget what you are even talking

about in the first place. Losing your train of thought

comes with age. My friends and I are in our 50's and

we all encounter this at times when we are speaking.

Mid sentence we will forget where we are going with

what we are talking about and what was it we were

talking about in the first place. I do that too where

my mind races about what is it I was talking about and

I struggle to pick up on it and then I have to tell

everyone, I'm sorry but I've lost my train of thought

and what I'm even talking about. Even finding the

correct word these days plays into it. Many times I

can't find the word in my head that I'm looking for

and it takes awhile for it to surface, if at all.

I don't have dementia/LBD and I can identify with you

on this one........Hugs, Jan

--- Patti wrote:

> Hi ya,

> I would like to know does your mind ever race.I find

> frequently in the

> middle of speaking if it is very lengthy of a tought

> I am saying I

> will lose train of my thought and then trying to get

> it back again my

> mind races and I can't think of anything. I finally

> have to pause and

> ask what was it I was saying. Sometimes the response

> helps and other

> times it doesn't. Many times I have to say oh well

> and forget it. Have

> you found anything that helps you with this sort of

> thing if you

> indeed have this problem? I find this so

> frustrating. I don't find

> simple conversations so simple anymore. Word finding

> is indeed an

> increasingly great problem when speaking. Thank you

> very much for your

> input on this group. I am so happy there is another

> person I can talk

> to that is experiencing this first hand. Everyone

> here though is so

> great and wonderful and I am so glad I found this

> site. I have found

> them to be supportive and I am so sorry they are

> having to9 deal with

> this disease at all. May God bless them

> all...Hugs...Patti

>

>

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