Credit: SWNS
A mum who thought she had a brain tumour after she went from laidback to aggressive was told she has early-onset dementia aged 50 and won't live to see her sixties.
Jana Nelson, 53, first noticed symptoms in 2017, after friends and family pointed out her personality had changed.
She was repeating the same questions and sentences and thinking she'd just become forgetful.
A mum who thought she had a brain tumour after she went from laidback to aggressive was told she has early-onset dementia aged 50 and won't live to see her sixties.
Jana Nelson, 53, first noticed symptoms in 2017, after friends and family pointed out her personality had changed.
She was repeating the same questions and sentences and thinking she'd just become forgetful.
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00:00So, I don't struggle with anxiety, that's just something that turned off in my brain
00:07when the atrophy happened.
00:09Same with being scared, like I very rarely feel scared.
00:13I get angry and agitated, that's how my symptoms show up for me.
00:19Do I feel that my brain's dying when I go to do something that I should be able to do
00:26normally, or say, or you know, something that I used to know, that I no longer know.
00:33Like whenever I run into those walls of, oh, this word's not available to me, or this function
00:42is not, task is not available, like I can't figure things out.
00:47That's when I know that the atrophy is occurring.