Ep 86: Muffy Walker, Author of "Memory Weavers"

BrainStorm wants to hear from you! Send us a text. This episode of BrainStorm by UsAgainstAlzheimer"s features Muffy Walker, a psychiatric nurse, and founder of the International Bipolar Foundation.  Her new novel Memory Weavers is based on her professional and personal experiences caring for family members with Alzheimer"s disease and issues of mental illness that inspire her advocacy work. Her novel explores how one person with fading memories from Alzheimer"s and another with PTSD, who can"t escape traumatic memories, find and support each other.  Along With BrainStorm host Meryl Comer, Walker delves into the persistent stigma surrounding both conditions, the challenges of caregiving, advances in early diagnosis through genetic testing, and the impact of intergenerational trauma. Her novel includes valuable resources now available to patients and caregivers that weren"t accessible when her mother was diagnosed 23 years ago. This is a must listen episode! Support the show