Are you a senior? At what age are you a senior? I understand it could start at 55 years old. Where can we go to be prepared to become a senior? A senior center maybe? Talk to another person your age? Nothing really prepares you. You need to smart enough when your young enough to start a retirement plan, especially if where you’re working, they can help with building one for you.
You really do not think about this, because, I don’t know why? Been around others who are retiring maybe? Just thinking about retirement is trauma in itself. We do not plan on well, how long am I going to live for example? Where am I going to live?
You hear about your children placing you in a nursing home and having somebody who doesn’t love you or care for you, take control of your everyday life. They are paid to take care of you. How much did you love your job when you worked? Be paid only minimum wage? You will need to clean my poopy ass? For minimum wage?
Oh dear, aren’t we seniors in for a surprise. As Seniors we already have a lot on our plates, we need to guess what health insurance we will need. We have to know what social security will pay for and what they will not pay for and pay for supplemental insurance. That could be out of pocket money and who much?
There goes your itty-bitty social security check. Unless you were smart enough to get a retirement plan from work called an IRA pension plan, any retirement plan to supplement your income.
I was not aware that they give more money if you went to college or have a college degree. How unfair is that? You worked your butt off for 10 to 12 hours a day for over 25 years and what do you get?
A traumatizing event…Yes, it is. Trauma is when we decide to stop doing what we have been doing daily like working and having a routine for over 20 years and then we stop. We wake up every morning and think of all of our friends we made at work and how they are facing that horrible morning traffic, trying to make sure they have taken the right route to get to work on time.
Sometimes, I send them a prayer. OK, so I am now retired, I keep my doctors appt. and she is telling me “I am aging appropriately for my age”. “Soon I will have aches and pains, my back will hurt, my knees will give out and I will experience falls…” What! But wait!” “I feel fine.” “It’s just part of the aging process,” she says.
Why do they put these negative things in your subconscious? That is so negative. It is said that 90% of people age 65 and over, have experienced one major traumatic experience in their life. It is reported that 12% suffer from trauma each year. Of course, if people have suffered trauma and not taken care to understand it, or deal with the emotions it comes with it, illnesses, will start to appear.
Trauma experiences come in a form of a disease, if not dealt with. How? Come to terms with what happened as a child, teenager, or as an adult. talk to a curandera/healer, a good therapist, or mental health professional. Somebody who can help heal the pain and suffering.
For help contact the national council of aging online. Or call 571-527-3900, they are open Mon to Friday 5 am to 5:30 pm. you can contact them and help you get help no matter where you live. Please do not hesitate to get help. 211 is a good number to call as well or 911 in case you need immediate help.
God bless.