A Daughter Copes With Her Mother’s Dementia

She came through the Blue Door of my clinical therapy practice carrying the load of unrequited guilt for the way in which her mother who, under her care, died a disturbed death.
Her mother’s dementia, like Montana weather, stormed through her home, unbidden and treacherous. How could a woman whose warm love showered over her for so many years slowly become a cold, angry woman as an elder? Such is the agony of an inter-personal relationship when one party holds onto memory and another loses it. Is there a parallel that can be drawn to a community, too?
Like other stories of hardship, courage and decisive action, her call to write about this experience came to her through a dream…
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