@article{discovery10162036, year = {2022}, journal = {The British Journal of Psychiatry}, title = {Losing the thread: experiences of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease}, note = {This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/}, publisher = {Royal College of Psychiatrists}, month = {December}, keywords = {Dementia, organic syndromes, phenomenology, social functioning, stigma and discrimination}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.184}, author = {Bebbington, Paul}, abstract = {In an initiative to reduce stigma, an academic psychiatrist comes out of the dementia closet: describing his own experience of developing Alzheimer's disease, the accompanying memory problems, the restriction of some of his activities, emotional lability and his increasing reliance on others.} }