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12. ECT can do that too

Tue Nov 18, 2025, 03:38 PM

4 hrs ago

I worked on a.psych ward. One patient getting ECT was a retired nun.

The nuns visiting her after treatments were shocked by her colorful cursing.

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Is Trump losing his filter? Can that happen with dementia? [View all] leftyladyfrommo 5 hrs ago OP

I personally think he's dying. RandySF 5 hrs ago #1

How "just before"? Jerry2144 4 hrs ago #8

Months RandySF 4 hrs ago #9

Thanks Jerry2144 4 hrs ago #10

Well, Trump appears to have many other PatSeg 3 hrs ago #15

That very much can be a symptom of Dementia Wiz Imp 4 hrs ago #2

Maybe (bar so low, hard to tell), and yes. RockRaven 4 hrs ago #3

It definitely can. I've watched it happen with two people. MineralMan 4 hrs ago #4

ABSOLUTELY.... with Dementia FalloutShelter 4 hrs ago #5

He will have "friends" so long as he is useful to them newdeal2 4 hrs ago #7

Never friends... only pilot fish FalloutShelter 4 hrs ago #11

"Disinhibition" is very much associated with dementia. nt intrepidity 4 hrs ago #6

ECT can do that too Bmoboy 4 hrs ago #12

They do go to a yelling stage Blue Full Moon 4 hrs ago #13

Yes, absolutely. Ocelot II 3 hrs ago #16

God! I hope he doesn't either. nt leftyladyfrommo 1 hr ago #18

Based on my experience with my father LastDemocratInSC 3 hrs ago #17

I lnew an old man who was dying of cancer and hr started.talking leftyladyfrommo 1 hr ago #19