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How watching dementia challenges beliefs about personal identity

My mom has dementia and she's losing herself piece by piece and I can't stop thinking about whether there was ever really a self there to lose.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gradual dissolution of personality reveals how much of what we call 'self' may be more fragile and constructed than we assumed.

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