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        <title><![CDATA[Mom tortured by dementia is transformed by Fleetwood Mac song]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All your life you&#8217;ve never seen a woman taken by a Fleetwood Mac song like this.</p><p>TikTok user Nicole Petrie&#8217;s mother, Cheryl, suffers from dementia — but even in her darkest moments of anxiety, Nicole has found she can still be brought joy by familiar music.</p><p>&#8220;My mother has Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD), and when she is having a bad day or moment of confusion, music can almost instantly improve her mood,&#8221; Nicole, 25, told <strong>Newsflare</strong>.</p><p>The loving daughter — who is also a model and activist — recently documented her ability to bring her mother out of a dark place using music.</p><p>&#8220;Hey Google — play Fleetwood Mac, please. Turn the volume up,&#8221; says Nicole while stroking her panicked mother&#8217;s hand, in a video she posted to TikTok.</p><p>The 1975 song &#8220;Rhiannon&#8221; begins playing — and almost immediately Cheryl transitions from a state of deep agitation to snapping her fingers and gleefully dancing throughout the kitchen.</p><p>&#8220;Watch to see the magic of music for dementia patients,&#8221; Nicole wrote over the beginning of <strong>the clip</strong>, which has racked up over 639,000 likes on the short video-sharing platform. &#8220;Nothing I was saying to help her was working but as soon as the music comes on you can see her whole mood change,&#8221; she wrote for the caption.</p><p>Cheryl is visibly quite young to have dementia.</p><p>&#8220;She started showing signs around 2012 when she was 48. It took a couple years after that to get the official diagnosis because the doctors didn’t consider dementia at first because she was so young still,&#8221; Nicole said of her mother. &#8220;My dad thinks there might have been signs of something wrong as early as 2010, but it&#8217;s hard to be sure because it was very unexpected around that age.&#8221;</p><p>Nicole frequently posts videos of her mother on TikTok, including ones where she riffs on words like <strong>TikTok</strong> and reacts to Nicole&#8217;s follower account and <strong>eats rice cakes</strong>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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