F01.2: Subcortical vascular dementia

You have a dementia disease.

In your case the reason for the dementia is a circulatory disorder in your brain. With a circulatory disorder, a blood vessel may become blocked or narrower. But the blood vessel can also tear so that it bleeds into the tissue. If there is a circulatory disorder in the brain, parts of its tissue can die off.

With this dementia, the memory may gradually get worse. You may also be unable to do some things as well as you used to. Walking or talking, for example, may become difficult. It may also be difficult to think or to begin a task. One may lose the desire to do anything. One may also develop a fixed facial expression and become more unfriendly to other people.

The symptoms of your dementia first appeared after there was a circulatory disorder in your brain. Circulation disorders in the brain can be caused by long-term high blood pressure. The heart pumps blood through the arteries to every part of the body. The pressure in the arteries must be enough for all the organs to get enough blood. On the other hand, if the blood pressure is too high, the heart, kidneys or other organs may get damaged. Under stress, our blood pressure naturally rises. During the night, our blood pressure usually falls.