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What Happened To Wendy Williams? Breaking Down Alcohol-induced Dementia [Part 2]

This video is intended to be informational only and it is based on the alleged illnesses and conditions that have been publicly released regarding Wendy Williams' health. It is not a medical consultation, nor is it personalized medical advice. For medical advice, please consult your physician.

I'm Dr. Frita. I'm a medical doctor who has been triple board certified, but I am not Wendy Williams' doctor, nor do I have privy to any more of her medical information than the general public. In the docuseries, "Where is Wendy Williams?" she and her family have revealed a lot of the medical struggles Wendy has been having. And so that's what we're breaking down in this daily six-part series. Please be sure to check out part one from yesterday where we broke down lymphedema, Wendy Williams' feet.

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If you have not seen it, check the link in the description. Today is part two, and we'll be talking about alcohol-induced dementia. Also, go ahead and click that like button and share this video with the people you care about because I'm about to give you some good information. All right, part two, alcohol-induced dementia. A couple of days prior to the docuseries being released, Wendy Williams' team revealed that she had a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia and aphasia.

But in the docuseries, her son Kevin Junior shared that he had been told that she has alcohol-induced dementia to his recollection. So let's talk about it. It is very clear from the documentary that Wendy is suffering from an alcohol overuse problem or an alcohol addiction. And alcohol-induced dementia or alcohol-related dementia is when a patient gets dementia due to long-term excessive use of alcohol, and it causes neurologic damage and impairment of cognitive function.

We definitely see some signs of that, but how do you know if it's alcohol dementia or if it is that frontotemporal dementia that her team says she has? Make sure you also tune in tomorrow because for part three, I'll be covering frontotemporal dementia. So alcohol is not only a neurotoxin, meaning it's directly toxic to the brain. Well, it can also cause a vitamin deficiency which can give you a Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, and again, you get signs of dementia. We'll get into it. Interestingly, alcohol-induced dementia tends to affect women more than men, and women will show signs even with lesser amounts of alcohol intake than men.

So signs and symptoms of alcohol-induced dementia may include damage to the frontal lobe, so you have a loss of inhibition. You can lose the ability to plan or to carry out executive functioning, like you might lose your ability to organize your daily calendar, to write a check even. You may develop inappropriate behavior, and you have a lack of care about the consequences. You could care less if you're rude to somebody or if you call someone a name, like calling them dumb, or body shaming them.

And yes, we did see some things in the documentary that could be consistent with these signs of alcohol-induced dementia. You may experience memory loss, and we saw in the documentary that Wendy Williams forgot what the Oscars were. Again, I'm not her doctor. I don't know officially what her diagnosis is. You may also lose the ability to carry out simple tasks like getting yourself dressed in the morning. You can have an impairment of language. So you can also develop some psychiatric problems like depression, change in personality, and psychosis. You can have a disconnect from reality. You can also experience anxiety.

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