Dementia appears to be a decline in rational intelligence to a rationally intelligent person.
As only rational intelligence is deemed to be academically intelligent, there appears to be no rationally intelligent answer to solving the problem of an apparent decline in rational intelligence.
What is really interesting is that the most rationally intelligent people can suffer with dementia. In fact the more mental capacity that a person appears to have, the more pronounced their mental incapacity will appear to be.
The more a person believes themselves to be highly intelligent, the more they will suffer their apparent symptoms of dementia.
Rational intelligence is the ability to remember & assimilate data & information in a rational & intelligent way.
The standard medical test, used by doctors to determine the appearance of dementia, is the ability to remember simple rational pieces of everyday information. In this way doctors directly relate dementia to a rational decline in the ability to give an intelligent answer to a rational question.
To my knowledge, nobody has ever been diagnosed with dementia due to a decline in emotional intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand our emotional feelings. It is the ability to treat our emotions as information intelligently. It is the ability to attribute an emotional state of being to oneself, attain that attribute and qualify the quality of that attribute that is attained.
Emotional intelligence becomes a qualification when the quality of an emotional state of being can be attributed to oneself as an attainment. The attainment of quality states of being, that I attribute to myself as emotions, is how I measure my level of emotional intelligence.
Dementia is not emotionally intelligent because a lack of emotional intelligence contributes to the cause of dementia; which to a rational person probably sounds demented.
How can something that somebody doesn’t have, cause something to happen to them?
This is due to the personal nature of emotional needs. An emotional need is something that I personally need emotionally because I believe that I do not have it. It is the absence of my emotional power, which means that I need it.
The paradox of emotional power is that when I have it, I value its worth and I call it a value; but when I don’t have it, I need it and I call it a need.
Love is both a value & a need. When I have Love, I value it and when I am without Love, I need it.
Doctors are trained to treat depression as a mental illness, when what is actual being depressed by the patient is their personal emotional power.
Whereas, it is true that all emotional problems have a mental cause and all emotional needs are sponsored by a mental belief or programme, nonetheless depression is an emotional lack of well-being.
The thing is, you cannot think your way out of depression because you do not have the emotional power. The way to overcome depression is through anger. Even though anger is a negative emotional reaction, it is a more powerful state of being than depression; so being angry when I am depressed is a positive attribute.
In the same way, you cannot think your way out of dementia, you do not have the emotional power.
This allows two choices of direction, you either need someone else to remember for you or someone else to provide your emotional power.
Unfortunately, very few people are emotionally qualified and sufficiently emotionally competent to supply the emotional power required for someone with dementia to remember what it is that they are trying to remember.
With enough emotional power, the infinite & eternal memory of the higher mind becomes accessible to anyone.
However, when I believe that the conscious rational mind is the higher mind, because it is more intelligent than someone else, I will be unable to access the emotional intelligence necessary to connect with the emotional power of my higher Consciousness.
When I believe that my power comes from my ability to influence the rational thinking of other people, because other people are incapable of thinking in the same rational way as myself, I will continue to see their inferior minds as being demented.
I will see their mind as being demented because I am unable to see the effect of their emotions being either suppressed or depressed.
Dementia does not depress emotional intelligence, it incapacitates rational, intellectual reasoning.
When I allow another to make choices based on their emotional feelings alone, they show no sign of any mental incapacity.
Dementia is not emotionally intelligent because when making choices based on emotional feelings alone, there is no apparent dementia.