not a pretty word.
11 It throws a chill into the mind of every person who faces the possibility of having to spend his or her declining years impoverished and worried constantly about meeting both the necessities of daily life and the special needs of old age.
Another contributing cause of the Fear of Old Age is the possibility of loss
of freedom and independence, as old age may bring with it the loss of both physical and economic freedom.
Symptoms of the Fear of Old AgeThe commonest symptoms of this fear are:
THE TENDENCY TO SLOWDOWN and develop an inferiority complex at the age of mental maturity, around the age of falsely believing oneself to be slipping because of age.
(The truth is that one’s
most useful years, mentally and spiritually, are those between 50 and THE HABIT OF SPEAKING APOLOGETICALLY of oneself as being old merely because one has reached the age of 60 or, instead of reversing the rule and expressing gratitude for having reached the age of wisdom and understanding.
THE HABIT OF KILLING OFF INITIATIVE,
imagination, and self-reliance by falsely believing oneself too old to exercise these qualities. The habit of the manor woman of 50 or dressing with the aim of trying to appear much younger and affecting mannerisms of youth, thereby inspiring ridicule by both friends and strangers.
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