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How crazy can people go in old age?
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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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Basically, your brain cells are dying, and they don't grow back. You are slowly losing the ability to do all sorts of things and reason in all sorts of ways. You can see how many more dark spots there are on a brain scan- those are just a lot of mental processes your brain can't do anymore. The other parts of the brain try to compensate, but after a certain point you'll never be able to think as well as you did before.
So you just lose more and more of your cognitive functions until you die.