If you spend time with a dementia patient, you will notice that they tend to withdraw from conversation. When they talk, the same stories, the same thoughts. Man goes back and his comfort zone shrinks. The best is simple and familiar.
Observing this, I realized that interviewing is a great skill. It wasn’t long before I realized that walking around and consuming everything causes cognitive decline in sleepwalkers. You are in your own world, expecting information without communication, stimulation without risk, and validation without effort. The Internet provides these things several times.
As a result, people retreat to comfortable, repetitive topics. Prefers familiarity over reality. It camouflages their loss of ability to follow a complex argument or hold a conversation with someone who does not share their point of view. This makes me nervous because I know a psychopath who uses this technique. What you think, they think too! What about this!?
Conversation is key if you want to keep your sanity. When your ability to talk and communicate atrophies from individual to individual, you can be sure that you are in a state of mental retardation.
I see it on this site. People don’t comment anymore. I’m sure they’ll give themselves a reason, but it’s probably too difficult. It’s hard to get involved, but where are you going if you don’t?
