How to avoid suffering from depression in old age?
- Facing retirement correctly. Retirement is a normal, inevitable process. Taking a break from the busy and regular professional life and living a leisurely and irregular retirement life is a change in lifestyle and a change in social role. For some very enterprising, very patriotic seniors, this fact may be hard to accept for a while. However, as the saying goes "Live until you're old and learn when you're old", when we retire, we'll have a lot of time at our disposal and we can still continue to learn. We can participate in some cultural activities according to our interests, such as reading, music, dance, calligraphy, gardening, chess and so on. , which not only enriches our spiritual life, but also cultivates our sentiments, and reduces loneliness and emptiness.
Watch your health. Eat a reasonable diet and exercise regularly every day. For the elderly who smoke and drink for a long time, gradually reduce the amount, and finally quit, because quitting smoking and drinking is the basic principle that should be followed to protect brain nerves, prolong life, and improve intelligence. Regularly go to the hospital for physical examination, encourage the elderly to participate in the community health census, and achieve early detection and early treatment of diseases; more importantly, family members should patiently listen to the elderly’s description of their mood and illness, so that the elderly have a sense of security, so as to eliminate loneliness and fear , anxiety, depression on the body, improve the ability to resist disease, promote physical and mental health.
The company of family members is very important. Since the introduction of the one-child policy, there have been fewer photos of children and grandchildren in the past. There are more and more empty-nesters living in urban high-rises and rural houses. It is good for children to earn money and honor their parents, but they cannot ignore the spiritual food of the elderly. Usually take time to go home to see, communicate with them, and try to meet their needs. Parents often hide their physical condition on the phone in order to keep their children from worrying about themselves. If they are not careful when they are young and don't go home for a long time, I am afraid that their parents are already seriously ill.
- Buy yourself insurance. Before retirement, you need to buy social insurance as required. This is not only a kind of protection for oneself after retirement, but also reduces the pressure of child support. If you have the financial conditions, it is best to buy an insurance to prevent major accidents or delays in treatment due to unaffordable medical expenses. In old age, the negative effects of disease on the psychology are lasting, and depression caused by incurable diseases is more difficult to relieve.
- Seek truth from facts to assess your own health, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude towards life, treat life and death correctly, and establish a correct outlook on life and death. Elderly people who are overly worried about their health can go to a regular hospital for necessary examinations to eliminate anxiety and tension. Although old age is a process of physical decline, our minds can continue to thrive. As long as we keep a young heart in our hearts, we will have a happy old age!