If Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias in the aged are primarily an attempt of the mind to shut down as a way of escaping torment, can this phenomenon take place at an earlier age, even in school children, manifesting as memory problems, inattention, and learning disabilities as being milder, and perhaps not yet permanent consequences, of a similar coping mechanism?

This is an astute question and is very logical, looked at in hindsight. If a chronic, debilitating, progressive, and devastating reduction in cognitive function can be an end result of wanting to escape from life, one can see the likely progression of events where there is a build up with inner resolve to make this happen, with increasing ways to distract oneself to keep going. And even the desire to maintain control and have easy recall of information, as it begins to become harder to retrieve in the case of these so-called illnesses, there is clearly a losing battle. This certainly demonstrates there is a powerful mechanism under way to make the mind withdraw, and win the contest, so to speak. This indeed does manifest much earlier and is apparent in many, many, ways, but to lesser degree, and will not be associated with such a grave outcome because the deficiencies are less severe and shorter-lived. And this, in fact, occurs even in small children who are under severe emotional stress. It is not only a byproduct of dissociation when there is a severe trauma, but there are many mechanisms for self-distraction as a way to cope with unpleasantness evident even in the young. And this is all part of the same coping strategy that can become more frequent and have a more severe consequence, so that the distraction is not temporary but quite prolonged with respect to certain types of information, and then whole categories of information, and then the person begins to truly slip away and lose their identity and awareness of those others who they may have known for many, many, years, including one’s spouse, but who become a mystery figure because the links to the understanding of what is happening are gone. This indeed implies that making a concerted effort to resolve stressful circumstances at all ages can have a tremendous payoff, not only in the immediate sense of alleviating suffering emotionally, but as a means of preventing long-term destructive habits that become harder and harder to reverse because they become so well-entrenched. This severe state of cognitive decline is what is presumed to be a separate phenomenon because of its severity, and then the pathologic changes often evident in the brain tissue, serve as a red herring to indict a mysterious degenerative disorder underway, causing the cognitive decline. The correlation is meaningful because it is a consequence of the mind’s choice, and that outcome, to have abnormal changes in the tissues. And of course these are not present to anywhere near the same extent at younger ages where there may be irregularities in cognitive function, but not so severe nor for a consistent length of time that they become unrelenting and progressive. So it is very much the case that if everyone had consistent support and healing using Holographic Memory Resolution, this would prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia in a majority of cases because the trauma would be resolved, and the need for the mental coping mechanism of shutting down awareness and the recall of painful information, would not become an automatic mode of thought and the destructive consequences rendering the person helpless in the end.