Alzheimers is/can be very hard on family's ill certainly agree, however I would argue that transitioning has a end point. Alzheimers dose not.
When you transition yes there are a lot of changes but once you finish things hopefully in most cases will normalise again and for supportive families they will hopefully see all the positive changes that have come from you now being yourself.
Alzheimers has no positive outcome and for family of the effected person there is very little that can be done and you just have to sit and watch your loved one disappear in their own mind.
It can be really hard to cope with sometimes for those family's and can lead to (In my opinion) far more pain then transitioning. Sometimes it's just the little things like that are the most painful like knowing that when you do something together they will not remember it after a few weeks, or days or hours depending on the severity.
Alzheimers is truly a curse and very few things compare to the amount of pain it causes. It is so hard to sit by watching someone slowly disappear knowing there is nothing you can do about it other then be there for them even when you know they won't remember you being there.
I think any illness like that where you know that you know that your going to lose your loved one would be equally as hard. It's just Alzheimers has effected me personally.
I don't think a transition is in anyway comparable, even if your family feel like your killing your old self when you transition there
is a big difference between that and actually really losing someone.
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