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What is depression?

What is depression?Everyone feels down or sad sometimes, but these feelings usually pass after a few days.When you havedepression, you have trouble with daily life for weeks at a time. Depression is a serious illness that needs treatment. If left untreated, depression can lead tosuicide. Anxiety and Family Therapy Anxiety …

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Anxiety and Family Therapy

Systemic family therapy, the most prevalent model of family treatment today, views the individual as an integral component of a unit of organization the family. Systems theory postulates that a person cannot be viewed, nor treated, out of the context in which that person is embedded. This context, the family, …

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Can Liberate Energy and Reduce Anxiety

Here is one of the more significant emergent areas in gerontology. The basic thesis is that people often must “plow under” some of their creative potential in order to fulfill their obligations in the family and the workplace. This chronic suppression of interests and talents may contribute to a vague …

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The Cognition-Anxiety Link

Many associations are found between cognition and anxiety at all age levels. This linkage may be especially salient among elderly adults. For example, memory lapses may induce anxiety that is out of proportion to the incidents themselves. Furthermore, the increasingly widespread awareness of Alzheimer’s disease has so sensitized some middle-aged …

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Elderly people tend to be anxious about dying, not death

Elderly people tend to be anxious about dying, not death The three themes already mentioned all converge here. Dying and death are realistic concerns in later adult years; one can no more escape from mortality than one can escape from one’s own skin; and the process of departing from this …

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Anxiety frequently arises from realistic concerns

It is helpful to identify several of the most salient age-related themes, contexts, and expressions of anxiety in the later adult years. As might be expected from the preceding discussion, these age-related phenomena are mediated by all the factors that contribute to making a particular individualthat particular individual. The following …

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Cohort in anxiety

Why is this octogenarian so preoccupied with even very small financial matters and such a penny-pincher when there seems to be no need for being so? A “fancy” interpretation might dwell on biological changes with age and the hypothetical recrudescence of anal-retentive features. Most gerontologists, however, would probably go first …

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