Btw, my comment about facial tics and elderly was not excusing what he did, but more a statement that the elderly do revert back to easily identifiable expressions- aided by their own failing bodies. (Roughly equal to extreme variations of PBA)
There’s even a medicine to control their out-of-control emotional swings or expression of feeling, and it’s a godsend if they are on an extreme point.
We had a visiting doctor prescribe it when fam member was in hospital and we got to see the old person we loved, but after a month or so having it prescribed, the insurance/Medicare quit covering it, and it’s like $2k a month.
Welp, and okay. I just learned that this medicine we appreciated so much (back then) was merely cough syrup (Dextromethorphan) and quinidine derivative.
In 2010, the FDA approved the combination drug dextromethorphan/quinidine for the treatment of pseudobulbar affect (uncontrollable laughing/crying). Dextromethorphan is the actual therapeutic agent in the combination; quinidine merely serves to inhibit the enzymatic degradation of dextromethorphan and thereby increase its circulating concentrations via inhibition of CYP2D6.[14]
I think it’s a combination of facial tics, exasperated by both emotional occurrences and age.
I think it was a case of CNN induced Trump Derangement Syndrome. He was up there to undermine the President the best he could.
That’s a possibility, too.
Btw, my comment about facial tics and elderly was not excusing what he did, but more a statement that the elderly do revert back to easily identifiable expressions- aided by their own failing bodies. (Roughly equal to extreme variations of PBA)
There’s even a medicine to control their out-of-control emotional swings or expression of feeling, and it’s a godsend if they are on an extreme point.
We had a visiting doctor prescribe it when fam member was in hospital and we got to see the old person we loved, but after a month or so having it prescribed, the insurance/Medicare quit covering it, and it’s like $2k a month.
https://www.flintrehab.com/pseudobulbar-affect-treatment/
Welp, and okay. I just learned that this medicine we appreciated so much (back then) was merely cough syrup (Dextromethorphan) and quinidine derivative.
Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan (yea I hate Wikipedia, too- but sometimes the fact that a truth comes out of that hellhole makes it that much more important.)
( brand name Neudexta)
Now I’m pissed, but also, this is huge (to me).
And I also have many questions