%0 Journal Article %A Bebbington, Paul %D 2022 %F discovery:10162036 %I Royal College of Psychiatrists %J The British Journal of Psychiatry %K Dementia, organic syndromes, phenomenology, social functioning, stigma and discrimination %T Losing the thread: experiences of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10162036/ %X 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. %Z 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/