How to treat senile anxiety disorder?

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Anxiety disorder in the elderly was originally a relatively easy to treat mental disease, but due to the low recognition rate (the recognition rate of physicians is 10.5%), leading to mental disability and high suicide rate, it has become a major killer of elderly health. The causes of anxiety disorder are related to both innate quality factors and external environmental stimulation. It is generally believed that the patient's personality traits tend to be on the high side. This kind of anxiety trait is usually manifested as easy anxiety, restlessness, poor tolerance to anxiety and restlessness, and easily excited sympathetic nerves. How to treat senile anxiety disorder? Let's talk about it

How to treat senile anxiety disorder?

Drug therapy: one is benzodiazepine, which is widely used in clinic, with many varieties. There is also a non benzodiazepine drug, which belongs to the new generation of anti anxiety drugs. According to the symptoms, some antidepressants can be used, but there are strict requirements for the use of these drugs, which must be carried out by specialists.

Psychotherapy: cognitive therapy, relaxation therapy, behavior therapy and support therapy are commonly used. It is worth noting that there is a phenomenon of excessive anxiety in many elderly people, which is often called senile anxiety disorder. However, people often ignore this kind of psychological disease and attribute the cause to some organic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes, which are considered as the symptoms of these diseases.

Cognitive therapy: is the most commonly used psychotherapy. Because the patients do not understand or have an incorrect understanding of anxiety disorder, they should give a reasonable explanation to the emotional experience and physical feelings of the patients, eliminate or reduce their excessive worry and tension about the disease, so as to mobilize the active role of the patients. If combined with drug treatment, it will improve the curative effect.

matters needing attention

First of all, we should be happy and content. The ancients said: "things can be contented, the heart is always comfortable." The elderly should have a sense of satisfaction with the road they have gone through in their life and a sense of adaptation to the life after retirement. Don't always regret the past and blame yourself for this and that. Rational old people do not pay attention to the footprints left by the past, but pay attention to opening up the road of reality. The second is to maintain psychological stability, not great joy and sorrow“ A smile is ten years old, but a worry is white. "A gentleman is honest and upright, and a villain is always sad." we should be broad-minded, be open-minded in everything, and constantly adapt our subjective thoughts to the reality of objective development. Don't try to bring objective things into your own subjective thinking track, which is not only impossible, but also easy to induce anxiety, depression, resentment, sadness, anger and other negative emotions. Third, we should pay attention to "control anger" and not lose our temper easily.