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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old were these patients when they started becoming nasty (or nastier)? Was it the first symptom?

Sometimes I wonder if my husband is developing dementia, or is just becoming nastier.
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I think there are a lot of aspects of aging that people start worrying about, and that anxiety comes out as anger. [b]How did your husband deal with worry when he was younger?[/b]

My mom was always sort of snipe-y, and her decline has definitely made her focused on how other people are doing things wrong, but that was always something she did. It's just now, she can't do the things she liked in the way she liked to do them, so she has more time to notice and comment on other people's wrongness. But she's not throwing stuff at me. [/quote]

PP you replied to. That's the trouble. He's always been introverted and repressed. So when he's anxious, he keeps it to himself until it comes out as anger. He's always lacked self-awareness about his triggers and feelings. Now with age it's just becoming worse. He's 65, though, not 70s or 80s.
I've been noticing more gratuitous nasty remarks, slight paranoia and sometimes just entirely irrational, weird pronouncements.
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