The psychological behavior of people aging before they get old is called psychological aging. Aging attitude is people's experience and evaluation of the aging process and old age. It is a relatively complex psychological structure that can be divided into multiple levels from different angles.
As age increases, many psychological functions of modern people, especially cognitive functions, decline, such as slow response, memory loss, weakened anti-interference ability, etc. Aging of cognitive functions directly affects daily life.
The dangers of psychological aging
Professor Freeman, a famous psychiatrist at Harvard University in the United States, believes: ‘Psychological factors account for a large proportion of the causes of people's illnesses.’
The World Health Organization considers mental health to be more important than physical health. If you are mentally aging, you may have the following problems:
- Decreased memory, low efficiency, and prone to making mistakes
- Lack of creativity and imagination, unwilling to try new things, and unable to adapt to changes
- Selfish, not caring about others, not good at communication, difficult to establish good interpersonal relationships
- Living in the past, not looking at the future, losing enthusiasm and goals for life
- Complains more, is less grateful, is dissatisfied with himself and others, gets angry and sad easily
- Collect useless things and are reluctant to throw them away, resulting in a messy life
Psychological aging test
So, are you mentally aging? There are 16 questions below. You can answer ‘yes’ or ’no’ according to your actual situation. If your answer to more than 7 items is ‘yes’, then your psychology is experiencing an aging crisis, and you should be careful to protect your psychology.
- Have you become very forgetful?
- Do you often feel helpless?
- Do you always focus on self-centered things?
- Do you like to talk about the past?
- Are you always a whiner?
- Are you indifferent to what is happening in front of you?
- Do you feel alienated from your loved ones, or even want to live alone?
- Do you find it difficult to accept new things?
- Are you overly sensitive to things related to yourself?
- Are you unwilling to interact with others?
- Do you feel that you have fallen behind the times?
- Are you often impulsive?
- Do you often feel sad for no apparent reason?
- Do you feel that life is boring and meaningless?
- Have you gradually become fond of collecting impractical things?
- Do you often get angry for no reason?
Prevention of psychological aging
If you find that you have signs of mental aging, don’t worry. You can improve your mental state and make yourself mentally younger through the following methods:
- Exercise more, maintain healthy living habits, enhance physical fitness, and improve immunity
- Learn more new knowledge, new skills, new interests, broaden your horizons and inspire inspiration
- Care more about others, participate in more social activities, make more friends, increase interpersonal communication, and cultivate empathy
- Review the present more, plan more for the future, set more goals, realize more dreams, and increase motivation in life
- Be more grateful for life, praise others more, affirm yourself more, think more positively, and increase the joy of life
- Clean up the environment more, discard more clutter, clean up the mind more, put down more baggage, and increase living space
Conclusion
Psychological aging is not caused in a day, nor can it be changed in a day. You need to constantly adjust your mentality and habits to make yourself mentally younger, healthier, and happier.
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