Paraphasic errors - mixing up my words-help!
Hello,
I am a 49 year old woman who has been slowly having cognitive difficulties. Everything stresses me out and feels overwhelming. I have a lot of stress in my life and depression and anxiety disorders. I have REM sleep behavior disorder and worry about Parkinson's some day.
This past summer I decided to see a neurologist for some memory concerns and language/speech errors. I started making a few paraphasic errors like saying "Seafish" instead of "Seahorse" and mispronouncing words even in my head while reading. The tests were all ok except I scored low on a naming test. I missed a point on the MOCA for visiospatial, too. However, I hadn't slept the night before b/c of depression and worry. It's three months later and I started feeling really depressed. I noticed I was suddenly making more speech errors again like never before. Blending words, mispronouncing, etc. I also counted some money totally incorrectly. I feel cognitively slow. Am I getting dementia? Has anyone else experienced these things and it was just stress or sleep or something? I am constantly worried. I don't feel like this is normal but I know I am on the younger side for some dementias. Thank you.
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