Does anyone feel old and useless with age?

To @karinkb
From @dorothy1914
I am in a similar situation as you. The last two years have been terrible. I am now 78 and this has been the worst year of my life. I went off my antidepressant after 45 years (Effexor). I don’t even know what possessed me to do it. After numerous attempts to reinstate the Effexor (at least 4 times), I and my short-term therapists gave up. Every day is a struggle for me. I have aged terribly in these two years (wrinkled skin, hair loss). I lost 55 pounds in a matter of 3 months. My doctor described me as malnourished. I think I look like a monster. My best feature was always my curly strawberry blonde hair. It’s mostly gone now and I have resorted to wearing baseball caps. Sometimes I feel as if I can’t go on but I try because of financial reasons.

76 years old suffering anxiety and depression take Klonopin but seems not lasting the 7-8 hours could this be because I split the pill also on mirtazaphine 22.5 going on 4 weeks first 2 weeks dosage was 15 mg

Hello my Aussie buddy What State are you NSW/ VIC or QLD ??????

Wow, I’m 78 and know what you mean. I almost never see my sons or my grandchildren so I’m
Lonely. Thanks goodness I have my dog who keeps me company !!

I have my cat and my dog..same here!

Have crap health & pet dander is an issue too but recently decided to hell with it & got a few fish in small heated tank and started volunteering a few hours once a week at a foodbank--all of us are crocks health wise & doing it for same reasons---improving mental health.
Best wishes xxxx cheryl

Vic
Wallan actually about 45km from melb
and you ?

See you are on chemo ?
buggar
Seems in our 70's cancers hit --I am 74

Was lucky i think as I chased Drs in 2016&17 until they sent me to melb for tests & then of course they found cysts in pancreas & Alfred Hospital removed them & spleen in oct 2022.
Shit health since & now lung disease grrrrrr
Better than alternative tho

Hi there
You are NOT "useless" --anyone who isn't lying flat on a bed unable to do anything fir themselves has at least one thing they can share with another --which will help self talk.
I am in same boat--moved to a rental 135 km from city i lived in to use public transport so i can talk to strangers instead of no one --how desperate is that ??
Anyone that sits next to me is going to be talked to as i have no family that aren't "busy"

please please go to a community house ( thats what we call them in australia )
You are saying what at least 50% of over 60's say--ppl don't seem to live as long or are falling apart 5 minutes after we hit 70--nor value their friendships. It is sooo annoying isn't it ??
xxxx feel free to reply & sook i do it A LOT xxx

With out or little pets like dog, cat. bird or even a fish to help us as a companion yes it can be very lonely. with out our little friends make it worse. we would be lost without them sometime & our little dog we are sure he know what going on just by the way he behaves now and the way he looks at us, I'm 100% sure he know I got Cancer or something that I never had before just by the way he act is unbelievable.