Coping With Anger About Aging

Stages of Grief

They say there are stages of grief. Some of those stages include denial, depression, and acceptance. But one that many of us experience is anger.

 

While we most often associate grief with the emotions when a loved one passes away, we can go through grief about a lot of things.

 

People go through grief when their house burns down or when they lose a job or a pet. An area of loss that we don't often lump in with grief causes is the physical decline of aging.

 

You can detect that you or senior citizens you know are experiencing grief from their loss of youth from comments they make.

 

It is common to hear them look back with remorse at lost youth and with the loss of functionality and strength that happens when we age.

Declining Strength

As a senior citizen sees their strength decline and perhaps go through one of the many natural ailments of aging such as arthritis or problems with elimination, it is not uncommon to see a response of anger result from their impatience with these problems.

 

Nobody asked to get old. And I am sure that if we could put it to a vote, aging would lose the election to continue to be part of our lives.

 

As much as senior citizens hate to grow old, your loved ones hate to see it happen to you.

 

And while you as a senior citizen may not see it happen, your family is grieving the loss of the “young mom or dad” as much as you are.

Anger Problems

The problem with being angry about growing old is there is nobody to take it out on.

 

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