%L discovery10162036 %T Losing the thread: experiences of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease %D 2022 %O 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/ %A Paul Bebbington %J The British Journal of Psychiatry %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. %C England %I Royal College of Psychiatrists %K Dementia, organic syndromes, phenomenology, social functioning, stigma and discrimination