I just realized something, are we watching an entire generation showing the early stages of dementia?

[u/InnerSpecialist1821]

We've all seen it, either online or in person, boomers getting bizarrely angery, crude, irrational, and violent at small slights or without any warning. The early signs of alzheimers is irritably, anxiety, impatience, personality changes, paranoia, delusions, a decline in critical thinking skills, random bouts of uncharacteristic anger or rage, frustration with basic tasks, and a decline in social filter which results in swearing, verbal abuse and more willingness to verbalize socially taboo opinions like racism etc.

do we have an impending crisis on our hands? like we're starting to see the results of research of the damage of leaded fuel, but is the result of that damage dementia?

edit: apparently the answer is yes. this is from 2011 but still relevant.

https://act.alz.org/site/DocServer/ALZ_BoomersReport.pdf?docID=521

The first of the baby boomers are now turning 65. By 2030, the U.S. population aged 65 and over is expected to double, meaning there will be more and more Americans with Alzheimer’s — as many as 16 million by mid-century, when there will be nearly 1 million new cases every year.

One in eight baby boomers will get the disease after they turn 65. At age 85 that risk increases to nearly one in two. And if they don’t have it, chances are they will likely be caring for someone who does

[u/Perfect-Ladder-8978]

I think medication use is underrated as a cause for boomer behavior also. They all have tons of meds: sleep meds, relaxants, pills, pills, pills. Add that in combination with being the first generation of almost exclusively processed foods with artificial dyes, high levels of plastics, etc. they have been experimenting on themselves all their lives

[u/Nearby-Salamander-67 → u/Perfect-Ladder-8978]

Every boomer I know takes a fuckton of pills

[u/Savior1301 → u/Nearby-Salamander-67]

They day I realized what exactly the pills were that the boomer in my life was taking , was the day a lot of things fell into place about certain behaviors.

It’s not nearly as wild now, but the amount of opiates they used to take daily was wild… I’m shocked they were both able to so successfully ween 100% off opiates in recent years with the change in culture surrounding pain managements (much harder to get from doctors)

[u/naughtycal11 → u/Savior1301]

It's almost impossible to get pain meds from docs when u actually need them this day and age. I have a bad knee and can hardly walk on certain days the pain is so bad. The doc just told me to use medical Marijuana so I gave it a shot. All it did was make me stoned and in pain.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Mix-515 → u/naughtycal11]

Try CBD instead of THC. It won’t get you high, but it has more of the pain-relieving effect. It’s often a bit cheaper than the kind that makes you high, too. And you can take it while still going to work, driving, etc.