Many old people can't adapt to the change of life style after retirement, and their psychological mood will change greatly, or even their temperament will change greatly, resulting in psychological diseases that affect their health. This huge change may be because the elderly suffer from retirement syndrome. Let's take a look at retirement syndrome What the hell is going on? What is the cause of this disease? How to prevent?
Retirement syndrome refers to the anxiety, depression, sadness, fear and other negative emotions of the elderly due to their inability to adapt to new social roles, changes in living environment and ways after retirement, or the resulting deviant behavior. This is an adaptive psychological disorder, which can also lead to other physiological diseases.
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On April 17, 2018, Jiejinggang Village, Yaozhuang Town, Jiashan County, Zhejiang Province held a collective birthday party for the elderly.
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So, what is the cause of retirement syndrome? Liu Zhonglin, director of the Department of Psychiatry of Sun Yat sen Memorial Hospital of Sun Yat sen University in Guangdong Province, pointed out that people's physical and mental health will change greatly after retirement. If you leave your job, you may have less contact with the society, and you will feel lonely; Regular work, study and labor become loose and generalized life. For example, when you are free after retirement, you should think more and be more sensitive. In addition, the physical condition caused by old age is not as good as before, which is more likely to cause doubt and anxiety.
Retirement syndrome is not a minor problem. These unhealthy psychology and bad emotions will seriously interfere with and damage the physiological function of the elderly and their ability to resist diseases, affect the functions of the nervous, immune, endocrine and other systems, thus causing or aggravating various psychosomatic diseases, accelerating the occurrence and development of aging diseases. Therefore, retired elderly people should pay attention to timely psychological adjustment, Correctly face the major life change of retirement.
How should the elderly cope with this bad mood in advance? Specifically, the following aspects should be done well:
1. Plan ahead and prepare for retirement. In the opinion of Wang Yiniu, a member of the Geriatric Psychology Branch of the Chinese Gerontology and Geriatrics Society, it needs a long-term preparation process to achieve economic prosperity and spiritual enrichment in retirement life. Therefore, it is necessary to make retirement planning in advance. He made a vivid analogy that retirement without planning is like a sudden brake, which is prone to accidents, while planning in advance is like installing intelligent braking devices and anti-collision systems, which helps people pass through the retirement adaptation period smoothly.
2. Adjust your attitude and face up to the sense of gap. If you are ready before retirement, you can change your role and start a new life as soon as possible after retirement. On the contrary, the sense of gap of the elderly will affect their life, even their physical and mental health. The most important thing is to face up to the sense of gap before and after retirement, especially the elderly who have certain functions and powers when in office. At this time, you should adjust your attitude, keep a good schedule, and communicate with your family every day. Children should also pay more attention to the emotional changes of the elderly. They can take their parents out to travel and distract them, so that the elderly can feel the care from their children and families.
3. Cultivate hobbies and welcome new life. After a period of buffering, the elderly will gradually adapt to retirement life and find ways to enrich their lives. Many people are busy working all their lives and have given up their dreams when they were young. After retirement, they have the economic conditions and time to realize their dreams when they were young. With the improvement of the quality of life, the physical quality of the retired elderly is good, and they can go to the university for the elderly to study again and cultivate a new hobby and skill to enrich their lives. It's better to find some peers to travel together, meet some new friends with common interests in the process of learning, and establish new social circles. In this way, the elderly can not only find a sense of belonging but also start a new life, and also find their own happy time after retirement.
Peng Guoqiu, the director of the outpatient department of Bayi Building of the First Affiliated (304) Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, scientifically checked this article. The expert specializes in health preservation, clinical medicine, psychological medicine, etc.
(Editor in charge: Zhang Meng, Zhang Xi)
