And speaking of Larkin Poe, I just discovered this one.
My maternal grandfather, and his father, died with Alzheimer's, and if my Mom had lived much longer, I'm pretty sure she would have been so diagnosed as well; gives one pause as the lines on the face start to get deep enough to obscure the scars.
And my beloved of 42 years not only has early-stage vascular cognitive impairment (the mark of a massive number of TIAs), but inherited her mother's bi-polar syndrome - which, it turns out, has also manifested in at least one and probably two of three sons.
This one is worth a close listen:
Peter (who is something of an evangelist for the destigmatization of mental illness; it's just that -
illness, like any other)