With the growth of age, people begin to age, which makes the ability of the elderly gradually lose. At this time, the mental health of the elderly has become a topic of frequent research in society. If you are not careful, you will have an empty nest mentality, which will often endanger your health. What about empty nesters? Come and have a look.
Four measures to get rid of empty nest psychology
Emotional dilution method
When there are only the "old couple" left at home, at this time, the elderly should care more about their wives. They should not only communicate frequently, but also talk about their own affairs, have fun and further strengthen the relationship between husband and wife through chatting.
Try to take your wife with you when you go out, to avoid one party going out and the other staying at home, so that the left-behind elderly people feel lonely.
Hobby dilution method
You can pick up or cultivate new hobbies and immerse yourself in them, which is also a good self-treatment. You can pick up all kinds of hobbies and interests on weekdays as soon as possible, such as fishing, painting, raising fish, playing Tai Ji Chuan and so on.
And cultivate some new hobbies according to personal interests, such as traveling, mountain climbing, swimming, bowling and so on. Plant laughter in the "empty nest" with hobbies, enrich your life content, and achieve the purpose of prolonging life.
dilution method
After the lively, harmonious and joyful scenes and atmosphere fade during the festival, the elderly should immediately return to the previous routine of "two-person world" or "one-person world".
Arrange your daily life in an orderly and step-by-step manner according to the past life rules. The return of routines can make the old people's emotions stable quickly, dilute the festive atmosphere and get out of the shadow of "empty nest".
Social dilution method
The elderly should actively participate in social activities and dilute the loneliness of life in communication. You can also choose to go out to visit old friends and join a club. Fill loneliness with warm and full life content.
Four kinds of psychology are beneficial to the health of the elderly.
1, often participate in social activities.
People who keep in touch with relatives and friends tend to live longer. Helping others in the process of communication is conducive to longevity. If you don't have many friends, I suggest you take part in more social organizations or volunteer work.
2. Choose activities that interest you.
Although health is beneficial, studies have found that some people who live long do not exercise much in their twenties. On the contrary, they do more activities that interest them, such as planting flowers, vegetables and carpentry.
3. Prevent excessive optimism.
People who are overly optimistic are often not as careful as cautious people. In order to stay healthy, prudent people know more about self-protection and less about high-risk activities, such as smoking, drinking, taking drugs or racing. These people will also stay away from people with bad habits.
4. "Good stress" is good for health.
If you hate what you are doing, then work stress is a "bad stress" that is harmful to your health; If you love your career, the pressure brought by your efforts to achieve something in your career is the "good pressure" that is beneficial to your health and longevity. The key is that the work must be something you like and give you a sense of accomplishment.
Factors affecting the mental health of the elderly
In the face of aging and the loss of rights and abilities accompanying aging, the elderly will certainly have many unhealthy psychology. And these unhealthy psychology will affect human health, which is very bad. So, what are the bad psychology that affects the health of the elderly? Come and pay attention.
1. Afraid of loneliness
This is the most common psychological abnormality of the elderly. Its main manifestations are low self-evaluation, negative sense of existence, and frequent dissatisfaction and complaints to others.
In the long run, the elderly in this situation will strengthen their self-behavior constraints, strengthen their inner closure, and gradually alienate the society, eventually forming lonely living habits and behavior patterns, and will silently bear the pain caused by loneliness.
This kind of old people not only want others to take care of themselves, but also often refuse to associate with others because of high expectations and fear of excessive psychological gap and disappointment, thus becoming lonely and alienated from the people around them.
2. Depression.
Some elderly people are psychologically fragile. Faced with the objective fact of aging, they are both afraid and helpless. If this mentality is not adjusted in time, it will easily lead to depression.
This kind of depression is stubborn, and it is easy to make people lose interest in life and feel tired. Therefore, such people are easy to get emotional and angry, often feel inferior and feel sorry for themselves, and even have suicidal tendencies and behaviors in serious cases.
3. Extreme psychology
This emotion can be expressed as two opposite trends. One tendency is to deny yourself bit by bit because of aging, treat yourself as a useless person, and often blame yourself, feel inferior, feel sorry for yourself and laugh at yourself.
Another tendency is to demand more from others because of self-aging, and always hope to get respect, care and care from others, regardless of the actual conditions and abilities of others and society. When this hope is not satisfied, it intensifies his psychological extremism and therefore gives up on himself.
doubt
Some old people are suspicious because of illness. They are often suspicious when they are not sick, and they are even more suspicious when they are sick. Even if there are some minor injuries and illnesses, I feel that I am terminally ill and hopeless.
Sometimes when it comes to illness, it changes color, asks and stops, and keeps seeking medical advice. This hypochondria can make it extremely sensitive to the decline of function, and can also feel physical changes or pains that ordinary people can't feel, such as the beating of the heart and the peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract. These excessive sensitivities are more likely to aggravate their suspicions.
5. Fantasy psychology
Affected by the gradual aging of the body, some elderly people's desire for longevity will become stronger and stronger. Therefore, they often deceive themselves with fantasies to get temporary psychological comfort, such as listening to others' praise for their health.
6. Fear of death
The core of their fear of aging is the fear of death. Afraid to talk about death, afraid to visit patients, afraid to pass through cemeteries and hear sad music, and even too excited to look at a dead animal.
What do the elderly eat? Seven kinds of food are beneficial.
1. Fish is good for heart health.
Heart disease is one of the threats to human health, but Inuit people in Alaska, USA are rarely troubled by this disease. The reason is that they often feed on fish, thus supplementing a lot of -3 fatty acids. This substance can help the human body control the cholesterol level and prevent arrhythmia, and it is the guardian of the "heart" of the human body.
2. Chocolate is good for blood vessel health.
In an archipelago near Panama, Kuna, who also suffers from abnormal heart disease, has a risk of heart disease nine times lower than that of Panamanians. What is the secret of their heart health?
The reason is that their drinks usually contain a lot of cocoa, which is rich in flavanols, which can protect the function of blood vessels, reduce the incidence of hypertension, and help prevent diseases such as type 2 diabetes, nephropathy and Alzheimer's disease. Eating chocolate rich in cocoa in moderation can also promote health.
3. Nuts prolong life
An American group that advocates healthy living and vegetarianism, research shows that people who regularly eat nuts can live an average of two and a half years longer.
Why do nuts have such magical effects? Because nuts are a good source of unsaturated fatty acids, similar to olive oil, in addition, nuts are also rich in healthy substances such as vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, and are rare healthy foods.
4. Olive oil against senile diseases.
As early as forty years ago, scientists studied the magical effect of olive oil: unsaturated fatty acids in olive oil can reduce the incidence of heart disease and cancer.
Now, people have made more discoveries: olive oil also contains a powerful antioxidant-polyphenols, which can help people resist diseases caused by aging.
5. Red wine delays aging.
Moderate drinking can prevent heart disease, diabetes and memory loss. Although any kind of wine can play such a role, red wine is the best, because resveratrol unique to red wine can activate factors that control cell aging, thus delaying aging and making people younger.
6. Blueberries can keep your body flexible.
From 65438 to 0999, a nutrition research center did an experiment. They fed the mice blueberry extract for a long time, equivalent to ten years of human beings.
Therefore, mice that eat blueberries have a better sense of balance and physical coordination than ordinary mice in their later years. This also proves that the compounds in blueberries help to reduce inflammation and oxidative damage, thus improving memory and limb flexibility in old age.
7. Tofu protects liver
Old people generally like to eat tofu. They said, "Fish makes a fire, meat produces phlegm, and cabbage and tofu keep you safe." Living with the rest of the diet spectrum says, "You can do this anywhere. It's easy for the rich and the poor to get together. Ask a vegetarian leader, you can also eat meat, delicious. People who are frozen with the moon in winter taste You Mei. "
The main components of tofu are protein and isoflavones. Tofu has the functions of supplementing qi and deficiency, reducing blood lead concentration, protecting liver and promoting metabolism. Eating tofu regularly is beneficial to health, beauty and intellectual development. The elderly often eat tofu, which has a good therapeutic effect on diseases such as arteriosclerosis and osteoporosis.
Conclusion: The above is the mental health knowledge of the elderly introduced by Bian Xiao. There are many healthy foods suitable for the elderly. When facing the empty nest psychology of the elderly, we should guide and treat them correctly and talk to them more. This can better solve the bad mental state of the elderly.