What may be anxiety and depression in older people?

The causes of depression in the elderly include the following four points.

The first one may be biological, that is, physiological. Because the elderly will experience the decline and disorder of brain function as they age, they may have negative emotions such as depression, anxiety, and fear.

The second may be related to cerebrovascular diseases in the elderly. For example, cerebral infarction, cerebral hemorrhage, etc., so that there may also be some depression and anxiety after **.

The third one may have something to do with the environment. Because the elderly often reach the age of retirement, they may not adapt to the life after retirement, have no sense of worth, have a declining self-esteem, feel that they are useless, or even useless, and some elderly people will feel that they are causing trouble to their children, dragging down their children, guilt, self-blame, etc.

The fourth possibility is that the elderly have been affected by some traumatic stressful event, such as the death of a loved one. It is often the result of a combination of the above factors.

There are two types of anxiety in the elderly: pathological and psychological, anxiety or depression.

1. Pathological elderly people have a number of chronic diseases, which are easy to cause psychological burden, anxiety or depression over time.

2. Affected by the outside world or family trivialities, lack of sense of security, and easy to cause anxiety or depression.

If the elderly have a long-term depression, sighing, or a sudden change in mood, they need more attention from their families. Usually spend more time with each other, communicate more, depression is a long-term and continuous state, don't be too nervous.

Anxiety and depression symptoms are more common in older adults, and here are some common ones:

1.Anxiety: Older people may show emotions such as nervousness, worry, panic, irritability, and often experience fatigue, insomnia, or excessive worry and worry.

2.Depression: Older people may experience low mood, sadness, hopelessness, and feelings of worthlessness. Signs of discontinuation of previous activities or loss of interest in older persons are noted.

3.Physiological symptoms such as gastrointestinal discomfort, headache, dizziness, tachycardia, shortness of breath, etc.

4.Changes in behaviour and habits: such as changes in the elderly's usual hobbies, sadness alone, intense emotions or meaningless self-punishment.

5.Sleep disorders: Older people may experience problems such as insomnia, drowsiness, or excessive sleepiness, and even nightmares and nightmares.

6.Memory loss: Older people may experience memory loss, difficulty concentrating, or doubts, worries, and other problems with their electrodes.

These symptoms may be similar to other physical diseases and psychological problems, so please seek the help of a doctor in time, and the family can also maintain close contact with the elderly, with more care, encouragement and support, so that the elderly feel that they are not alone, which will be of great help to the elderly.

Comprehensive measures should be taken for geriatric anxiety disorders, which are common as follows: 1. Western medicine**: benzodiazepines, antidepressants and other drugs are common; 2. Traditional Chinese Medicine**:

Traditional Chinese medicine differentiates syndromes from the heart, liver, kidney and other viscera, and commonly uses drugs to soothe the liver, calm the liver, relieve depression, and tonify the kidney; Geriatric anxiety neurosis is characterized by sudden and persistent nervousness or episodic panic states, often accompanied by symptoms such as dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations, dyspnea, dry mouth, frequent urination and urgency, sweating, tremors, and motor restlessness; The level of tension and panic is often not commensurate with the actual event.

Suggestions: This disease is common in Western countries, and it has increased in China in recent years. The frail old age, internal injuries are the main causes of this disease.

The clinical manifestations are mainly mental and emotional symptoms, and the disease is in the viscera, and the relationship between the heart, liver (gall bladder), spleen (stomach) and kidney is particularly close, which is quite similar to the "depression syndrome" of traditional Chinese medicine, and is mostly related to "shock" and "fear" symptoms. The clinical syndrome type is a mixture of deficiency and reality, liver and heart disease, bile and stomach disharmony, spleen deficiency and stagnation, kidney deficiency and sperm deficiency, each with its own emphasis. Treat with syndrome differentiation and obtain more good results.

3. Psychological: common cognition, relaxation, support, etc. For the ** of senile anxiety disorder, it is important to find the cause of senile anxiety disorder.

If it is anxiety caused by a physical disease, the first is the primary disease, and if it is simple anxiety, you should go to a mental health center to seek medical treatment and take anti-anxiety drugs under the guidance of a doctor. The elderly themselves should also learn to adjust, cultivate more hobbies, find more interesting things to do, and do not pay too much attention to anxiety symptoms.

If the elderly are anxious, they should change their living environment, go to some friends to chat, listen to **, and drink tea.

For a long time, I don't know who to talk to except myself. Give ** to your children, your children often don't have time to make **porridge; Let's go out for a walk, and just have a few words with those old people. When I get home, it's uncomfortably quiet, and I can really hear people talking when I watch TV and listen to the radio, but there is no communication after all.

Over time, language skills will decline. Originally, the elderly have no opportunity to use their brains, and even their language ability is deteriorating, so it is not far from Alzheimer's disease.

The elderly live alone, and the loneliness doubles, and it is easy to miss the past. Traditional Chinese medicine says: "Thinking hurts the spleen."

The spleen is in charge of the digestive system. That's why when people miss someone in particular, they don't want to eat. It is unlikely that the solitary life of the elderly will be colorful, and nothing is more nostalgic than when they were young, when their wives were still there, there were many friends, and their children were still young.

Scene by scene, like a movie, flashes through my mind every day. Originally, one person couldn't eat much, so when Zhenghui came, he could not eat without eating, and the digestive system degenerated, and it was easy to give birth to corresponding diseases.

This is the most likely illness for the elderly who live alone. Depression is not that you can't think about it, but that no one understands it. Although old life is not as rich as that of young people, there will always be some things in life, such as children's affairs and old friends' affairs.

When there is only one person left to think and judge but not understood, depression begins to sprout slowly. In addition, it is difficult to be alone every day, so it is easy for the elderly who live alone to suffer from depression.

1. It may cause poor sleep, and in the long run, the mental outlook will look listless and lifeless.

2. If you are anxious, you are prone to overeating in terms of diet, which will definitely have a negative impact on the stomach.

Anxiety disorders have a greater impact on the body, and may be accompanied by chest tightness, shortness of breath, palpitation, insomnia and other symptoms. If it is severe, it will also be accompanied by abnormal loss of appetite and constipation, and it is necessary to go to a psychiatric department for a check-up. In the process of **, it is necessary to avoid staying up late for a long time and getting cold, but also to maintain a good attitude and maintain a good life and rest.

Proper participation in outdoor sports can improve the body's immunity.

The sympathetic and episympathetic nervous systems of people with anxiety disorders are often overworked. The patient has sweating, dizziness, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, body chills and fever, cold or hot hands and feet, stomach discomfort, frequent bowel and bowel movements, and a feeling of blockage in the larynx.

The impact on the body is very large, often malaise, bad mood, pessimistic view of everything, and mental illness.

The most prominent symptom of anxiety disorder in the elderly is anxiety, which can lead to anxiety over a long period of time. Anxiety disorder is different from anxiety, it will lead to a decrease in the body immunity of the elderly, depression, and seriously affect the normal life of the elderly, so once the precursor of geriatric anxiety is found, it is best to prevent the condition from worsening.

Anxiety disorder in old age is a characteristic that the average person with anxiety disorder does not have. People usually attribute the symptoms of anxiety in old age to organic lesions, such as heart disease, diabetes, etc., while ignoring the symptoms of anxiety in old age is a mental illness.

If the anxiety is excessive, it becomes an anxiety disorder, also known as anxiety neurosis. Anxiety disorder is a neurosis characterized by an acute onset or a state of chronic persistence, with autonomic dysfunction as the central symptom of anxiety.

If you find it helpful, thank you!

Anxiety disorder is one of the important causes and manifestations of mental illness in the elderly.

It is often seen that some elderly people are upset, restless, and some are worried and nervous about a little thing. This phenomenon is called anxiety in psychology, and in severe cases, it is called anxiety disorder.

Anxiety is a nervous and fearful emotional state formed by an individual's self-esteem or self-confidence, or increased sense of failure and guilt due to the threat of failing to achieve the goal or overcoming obstacles.

In general, anxiety can be divided into three main categories: Moral anxiety. That is, the emotional reaction caused by the feeling of guilt caused by the violation of social moral standards and the conflict between social requirements and self-expression.

Some older people are afraid that their actions do not conform to their own ideal standards and will be condemned by their conscience. For example, when you see gangsters besieging the conductor on the train, you deliberately turn a blind eye because you are weak and afraid of being hurt, and when you come back, you feel that you have done something dishonorable, and you feel deeply guilty, and then you fidget, and constantly blame yourself.

If anxiety reaches a more severe level, it becomes an anxiety disorder, also known as anxiety neurosis. Anxiety disorder is a neurosis characterized by an acute onset or chronic status quorus characterized by autonomic dysfunction as the central symptom of anxiety.

Senile anxiety disorder has characteristics that are not found in general anxiety disorders. And people often ignore this mental illness and attribute the cause to some organic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes.

Causes of anxiety disorders are:

Causes of Anxiety Disorders:

biological factors, such as genetic influences and physiological factors;

psychological factors, such as cognition, emotion, etc.;

Social factors, such as overcrowded cities, crowded living spaces, environmental pollution, tension, excessive work pressure, etc.