Symptoms of mental illness in the elderly?

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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. Symptoms of mental illness in the elderly? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of mental illness in the elderly?

Depression is one of the common mental diseases of the elderly, often accompanied by other physical diseases. The elderly patients with depression usually show depression or depression, loss of interest in life, no happiness in daily life, poor sleep, chronic pain, memory loss, and even persistent thoughts of life and death. It is very dangerous for the elderly to suffer from depression, even lead to suicide.

In life, we often see that some old people are upset and restless, and some are nervous and afraid for a little thing. This phenomenon is called anxiety in psychology and anxiety disorder in severe cases. They have no diseases or only minor diseases, but they are worried that their diseases will not be cured. They constantly go around seeking medical advice, doing all kinds of laboratory tests, and tasting all kinds of secret ancestral prescriptions; Worry too much about the safety and health of family members, etc; Over dependence on certain treatments or drugs, and even feel that without them there is no courage to live. All kinds of manifestations suggest that fear is the core symptom of anxiety disorder, and the clinical characteristics of anxiety disorder are persistent fear and anxiety.

Hypochondriasis is a common mental disease of the elderly. Patients often suspect that they have a certain physical disease, or conclude that they have suffered from a certain serious disease, and feel very worried. The severity of the worry is not commensurate with the actual health status of the patients. The elderly with hypochondriac have certain defects in character, such as sensitive, suspicious, easily suggestive; They are withdrawn, introverted, lack of interest in things around them, pay too much attention to body changes, and narcissistic.

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Keeping a good attitude and mental outlook is not only very helpful for health care, but also for disease rehabilitation. In particular, some physical and mental diseases, that is, diseases with close relationship between disease state and psychological mood, such as hypertension, Alzheimer's disease, menopausal syndrome, etc., good mood will bring help to them.