If  you can have dementia, can you also have emacia? And if you can be emaciated, can you likewise be dementiated?  To be considered emaciated, one would be “bony, gaunt, and most likely undernourished”.  To be dementiated (de, or “without,” and mens, or “mind”), then, would one perhaps have an undernourished mind?  To be a healthy human being (or a healthy any kind of being), nourishment is essential.

(Having a little fun with words…yet they are serious words with serious implications.  We need to nourish the wholeness of our fellow beings.)

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