Anthea Rowan

What Are the Reasons for My Mother’s Alzheimer’s Disease?

Personal Perspective: Dementia does not strike entirely randomly. Were my mother's long, treatment-resistant depressions to blame? Or her stroke? Or just her gender?

Personal Perspective: Dementia does not strike entirely randomly. Were my mother's long, treatment-resistant depressions to blame? Or her stroke? Or just her gender?

Why I Pretend to See What My Mother Sees

Personal Perspective: Some believe it's wrong to buy into the fabrications of dementia. I think not doing so is to exacerbate an already alienating and distressing disease.

Personal Perspective: Some believe it's wrong to buy into the fabrications of dementia. I think not doing so is to exacerbate an already alienating and distressing disease.

Dementia as a Country Would Be Huge

A Personal Perspective: I didn't know what Dementia Land looked like until my mother took me there.

A Personal Perspective: I didn't know what Dementia Land looked like until my mother took me there.

Is depression really heritable? Can you pass it from mother to daughter? Anthea Rowan argues not.

A Personal Perspective: On the outside of depression.

I suppose I think - I hope (fingers tightly white-crossed) - that if I write about it, Depression won't bite.Depression's a bitch. A big black stalking dog with swallowing jaws and a stealthy tread.It's been a part of my life for longer than it hasn't.A part of Mum's for longer than she cares to remember.