Citation

Hazif-Thomas C, Thomas P. Revue de Geriatrie 1998; 23(6): 507-516.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998)

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Abstract

Anxiety among the older are often badly handled on an epidemiologic point of view and the panic trouble is underdiagnosized in elderly persons. Diagnosis mistakes are numerous albit the trouble is associated with a major depression and can conduct to a large number of suicides. According to the weak number of panic troubles among old people, it seems that even if discarding a real undiagnosis possibility, old people are able to develop their own skill of tranquility, that relatively protects them from anxiety, nevertheless with a risk of withdrawal from the environment and a learnt and acquired demotivation. Low self-acceptation of an anger, that is able to weaken a panic, and a shame when considering their blowing-out, promote psychological strategic change, facilitates a switch from agressivity to withdrawal and regression. To better understand panic is complementary with a good pharmacological therapy which uses more Serotononin Reuptake Inhibitor Antidepressants than benzodiazepins because of their side effects and their frequent, worring misuses in old people. We present in this paper a comment on panic attacks among older persons, and how they interact with some somatic diseases and with demotivation.

Language: fr

Keywords

Aging; anger; Antidepressant; anxiety; Anxiety; Apathy; article; benzodiazepine derivative; Demotivation Ageing; depression; gerontopsychiatry; Grief; human; learning; motivation; panic; Panic trouble; serotonin uptake inhibitor; shame; suicide; Suicide