Alzheimer desease, family emotions and old people

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Alzheimer desease, family emotions and old people

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Hi dear Jesus and Mary,

my depressed ant has had Alzheimer for years now, and now my mum is going through a very distressing change in her life and Alzheimer seems to be knocking at her door too. She is leaving the family house she loved and enjoyed so much especially for her lovely garden and green surroundings (fields and forests) where she has been living in for the last 50 years and she has just moved now into a small apartment in the city, mostly under heavy family pressure of my siblings and father, as she cannot handle to maintain a big house alone anymore. She is turning 79 this year. They all want to sell the family house that was getting in worse and worse condition and I can feel my mum desire was to stay there not caring much if the house lost value on the market as it degraded. It is pretty horrible to me what is happening and I addressed it occasionally but they all felt it was the best for her. The other reason for wanting her to move is that she could remain longer independent and live her life by herself more easily in a small apartment and I find it a good point. But her desire was still for being in the family house garden she cherries so much. So what love would do in this situation? I can sense God wants everybody to be able to enjoy our life as self responsible persons and embrace our free will without needing others to assist us. Mam is becoming more more psychologically unstable and damaged, I would call it moving towards senile dementia but not fully there yet. That's the first part of my question. What love would do here?

I know in the western world, so many families are in similar cases and generally put the old parents in a nursing home when they can afford it. Generally, it does not feel a loving choice to me when it is again their will. But what when they cannot handle life alone and need assistance? What would be loving when people become senile from God's perspective? I suppose God wants them to take responsibility for their senility they created in the firs place but at the same time God is merciful does not want to let them die in pain. That is a bit a second part to my question.

Secondly, I just heart recently that my family reported signs of Alzheimer disease manifesting in my mam as the move has just happened now, and before there were a quite traumatic process for her of letting go many things she was attached to but that cant be stored in her new small apartment, and this under the family pressure of time, as she is acting very slowly and often in confusion.

I can feel my mother very very suppressed emotionally, always telling everyone she was very happy in her house (and she believed so), but feeling at the same time all the pain and denial within her. Now that she has moved, she has not the happy bit she enjoyed so much about her garden anymore, and what remains is the reflection of her denied pain and law of compensation pain, body pain and injuries and emotional pain. So I am not surprised Alzheimer is the answer as she want to ignore it all now. So my question is what is Alzheimer truly about, how can it be healed and how can we all possibly help mam and my ant out of this painful disease?

Thanks,
Pierre
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