Sihai network

How to correctly adjust the common psychological problems of the elderly?

How to correctly adjust the common psychological problems of the elderly? For today's various lifestyle diseases, prevention is better than treatment, to promote the mental health of the elderly, has become one of the important measures to prevent various chronic diseases. However, the elderly pay little attention to their own mental health. The study found that the common mental diseases in the elderly are mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1. Dusk psychology

Because of the loss of spouse, children working away from home, their own old and frail or suffering from disease, they feel that life has lost fun, lose confidence in the future, and even feel pessimistic about the future of life. They have a negative and negative gray psychology towards anyone and everything.

2. Inferiority complex

Because of the decrease of economic income and social status after retirement, people feel that they are no longer respected and valued, resulting in a sense of loss and inferiority complex, which can be expressed as complaining, complaining, blaming their children or past colleagues and subordinates, or abandoning themselves.

3. Sense of worthlessness

They can't adapt to the idleness after retirement, think that they have become a burden to the family and society, lose the value of existence, and underestimate themselves.

4. Unsafe psychology

Some old people are disgusted with the outside world and have prejudice, so they close themselves up and seldom work with others. At the same time, they also feel lonely and helpless and become afraid of the outside world.

5. Senile mental disorder

Some elderly people, if they lack regular life, seldom participate in group activities, or have marital relationship in the family, disharmony between parents and children, and no sense of pleasure in life, may induce various mental disorders, such as neurasthenia, anxiety, depression, hypochondriasis, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hysteria, etc. In general, the incidence rate of mental disorders in elderly is slightly higher than that in other ages.

6. Senile psychosis

In recent years, the incidence rate of senile mental illness has also increased. Common features include senile affective psychosis, senile dementia, senile schizophrenia, brain degeneration and psychopathy caused by chronic diseases.

After reading the above contents, we should have some understanding of how to correctly adjust the common psychological problems of the elderly. Today we will introduce more topics about the health of the elderly. Sihai Xiaobian will continue to introduce them in the following articles. Welcome to check. I wish you a happy life!