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Źródło: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260609-mental-health-and-ageing-why-you-are-never-too-old-for-therapy

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'I felt lighter, more open': Why you are never too old for therapy

'I felt lighter, more open': Why you are never too old for therapy

Maurizio is 70. He recently began therapyterapia in the hope of better understanding a physicalfizyczny pain he had carried since childhood. He has sufferedcierpiał migrainesmigreny since the age of seven and wanted to explorezgłębiać what might lie behindbyć przyczyną; stać za them.

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Over the years he had consultedskonsultował się z different doctors and soughtszukał; zabiegał o multiple opinionsróżne opinie / kilka niezależnych opinii – therapy was another attempt to trace the origins ofdociec źródeł / prześledzić pochodzenie the problem. But he continued even after realising he might never find a single causejedna przyczyna. "The process itself became something meaningfulmający sens; znaczący, a space for introspectionprzestrzeń do introspekcji / do zajrzenia w siebie that helped me understand my life more clearly," Mauizio says. (We have omittedpominęli; nie podali the surnamesnazwiska of the therapy clients quoted within this pieceten materiał / ten artykuł to preservechronić; zachować their privacyprywatność.)

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Their stories challengepodważać a common assumptionzałożenie: that therapyterapia is only for the young. And a growing body of evidencecoraz większy zestaw dowodów suggests that many older peopleosoby starsze could benefitskorzystać from the same kind of help.

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According to the World Health Organization, around 14% of people over 70 live with a mental health disorderzaburzenie zdrowia psychicznego, most commonly anxiety and depression, and 17% of all suicidessamobójstwa occur in people of in this age rangeprzedział wiekowy. A study publishedopublikowany in 2024, however, found that only around 4% of US adults aged 65 and overw wieku 65 lat i więcej receivedotrzymał; skorzystał z psychologicalpsychologiczny therapyterapia, compared withw porównaniu z 12% of those aged 18-24 and 8% among those aged 35-64.

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This is despitemimo there being no evidencedowód; materiał dowodowy that therapy is any less effectiveskuteczny or useful as we get older, according to Pim Cuijpers, professorprofesor of clinicalkliniczny psychologypsychologia at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. "Therapies work acrossna przestrzeni; w obrębie the wholecały adultdorosły age," he says.

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Cuijpers recently published a review on psychotherapypsychoterapia for depressiondepresja across different age groupsgrupy wiekowe. "What surprised me is that there is quite a lot of researchsporo badań in older people who are above 75 and we didn't find any indicationoznaka; wskazówka that psychotherapiespsychoterapie differróżnić się in that age group either," he says.

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"We don't know the reasons but we could imagine that when older adultsosoby starsze are willingchętny, skłonny to seek helpszukać pomocy, they are also more motivatedzmotywowany to do that," says Cuijpers.

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Financialfinansowy difficultiestrudności help explain part of the gap in older people beginning therapyterapia in the first placew ogóle / przede wszystkim: their health insuranceubezpieczenie zdrowotne may not cover therapyterapia, and they may not be able to afford tomóc sobie pozwolić na pay forpłacić za it independentlysamodzielnie.

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Part of this prejudiceuprzedzenie; stereotyp comes from Sigmund Freud, the founderzałożyciel of psychoanalysispsychoanaliza, who argued that therapy stopped working after 40 or 50 years, says Rossana De Beni, professor and senior researcherstarszy badacz; starsza badaczka in experimental psychologypsychologia eksperymentalna at the University of Padua, Italy. In On Psychotherapypsychoterapia (1905), a brief technicaltechniczny; specjalistyczny paperartykuł naukowy; praca on the practice of psychoanalysispsychoanaliza, Freud noted that above a certain age "the elasticityelastyczność of the mental processesprocesy umysłowe, on which the treatment depends, is as a rulez reguły; na ogół lacking".

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But that is "absolutely not true", says De Beni. In fact, "studies show the opposite".

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Cliniciansklinicyści; lekarze i specjaliści kliniczni need to see the older person for who they truly are, De Beni points outzaznacza; wskazuje, not simply as "an old person", but as a multi-facetedwielowymiarowy; o wielu aspektach individualjednostka; osoba. Unfortunately, our ageistageistowski; dyskryminujący ze względu na wiek prejudicesuprzedzenia are often "deeply entrenchedgłęboko zakorzeniony", she says.

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Some of the ageismdyskryminacja ze względu na wiek may be internalisedzinternalizowane; przyswojone i uznane za własne by the potentialpotencjalny; możliwy patients themselves. Beliefs such as the idea that mental health problemsproblemy ze zdrowiem psychicznym are simply a normal part of ageingnormalna część starzenia się are among the most frequently citedprzywołane; cytowane; wskazywane obstaclesprzeszkody; bariery to accessing careuzyskiwanie dostępu do opieki medycznej. This is especially problematic, since ageismdyskryminacja ze względu na wiek can itself predisposepredysponować; zwiększać skłonność someone to greater anxiety and depression.

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The simple truth is that positive transformationprzemiana is possible across the lifespanokres życia. "Ageingstarzenie się, right to the very endaż do samego końca, is a stage of life marked by changenaznaczony zmianą," De Beni says. "People become more fully themselves in a process of continuous transformationciągła przemiana, learning and flexibilityelastyczność that never truly ends."

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Maurizio certainly identifies withidentyfikuje się z; utożsamia się z this sentimentodczucie; przekonanie. "There are three moments when therapy helped me: in dealing with my maritalmałżeński separationrozwód; rozstanie, in working throughprzepracowując certain conflictskonflikty; spory with my children, and in navigatingradząc sobie z the transitionprzejście; zmiana etapu from active work to a pre-retirementprzedemerytalny phase, where I had to find new ways to socialisespotykać się z ludźmi; towarzyszyć innym," Maurizio says. "I never thought it could be too late for anything."

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He hopes that he has set an exampledać dobry przykład for others to follow. "I think it may have planted a small seed: not today, not tomorrow, but perhaps the day after, they will bring it outwyciągnąć to na wierzch / przypomnieć sobie to and water it," he says.

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