This chapter explores the challenges faced in diagnosing frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in a patient with comorbid schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. It discusses the erratic behavior, conflicts, and racist comments exhibited by the patient, leading to their admission to a mental institution and eventual diagnosis of FTD.
Frontotemporal dementia, or FTD, is tricky to pick up at the doctor's office and impossible to cure.
And for those who live with the condition, their families and their carers, the situation can be very challenging.
On All in the Mind this week, we hear from those people and a researcher who has spent decades working on the condition.