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Does anyone feel old and useless with age?
Depression & Anxiety | Last Active: Mar 22 4:21pm | Replies (192)Comment receiving replies
Prayers sent. I am 64 also. I had a large growth surgically removed from my thigh a few years ago that seemed to develop from a bad dog bite I had over 10 years ago. It left a pretty big hole in my leg but it healed up but it has a huge scar and I feel it’s still healing and the muscle mass will take another 64 years to catch up. I do appreciate still having my leg however. I have back problems. I was in 2 accidents to do with my back and my hip. One when I was a child and one when my daughter was an infant. My biggest complaint is that I don’t feel appreciated. I always can find something to do. Being unappreciated hurts the most. I am married to a 76 year old man for over 40 years and who thinks I should still be able to act like I did when I was 20.
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Men always want us to stay the same , like when we were young. I was married at 16 married for 38 yrs. Never heard a thank you or I'm sorry. Nothing...these men don't appreciate us. Until it's too late. That is a topic I could go on about.....but we aren't 16 or 25 or 40..we have children and we age. And our health fails because we took such relentless care of others.
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My greatest source of feeling good about myself comes from Myself because I truly know more about myself -- my strengths and weaknesses. If I find an insight in Addition to what the essay said, for example, I feel good about it. If I find there was a weakness in the way an argument was made in an article because of logical error I feel good having discovered it myself -- of course it's a lot more fun to be able to discuss such things with a fellow human, which I lack but working toward it daily. At the minimum I try to do what's in my control to keep myself mentally and physically in shape. After all one cannot get from others what they can't, won't, or too incompetent to give, right! Certainly No fb friends for me if they don't even know me.