Hex 23.3. How is x doing? Suffering from earlier onset dementia

[BonBon]

They are pretty far along. Early onset. Last saw them two years ago. Last their partner mentioned on phone was describing them as a mindless zombie that just follows them around all day. That was several months ago at least. (They care for their spouse in house and are of pretty limited means). It must be hard as heck. I just cannot fathom the agony of dealing with that on a daily basis for years on end.

 

[rosada]

23.3 He realizes he can’t trust his own judgement but at the same time he can’t understand the people around him.
52. He’s closing off to the outside world.

I once had a reading where these hexagrams indicated the spiritual reason a person was going through certain experiences was so that they might learn patience. I thought this might be some how parallel to what your friend is going through. 23. Looks like something that inevitably will fall over but 23.3 creates the trigram Mountain that fortifies the possibly top heavy Mountain at the top trigram - but it changes the hexagram to 52. Keeping Still which also means Meditation. So perhaps just as my friend was advised too fortify herself by removing her thoughts from a confusing situation through patience and meditation, I wonder if your friend has withdrawn into himself because it’s all to confusing? But 52. it doesn’t read like a torturous thing. Like maybe as he withdraws from the outer world he is going into an inner meditative state?