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                                                      Looking after your mental health Key Stages Middle Age Challenges facing people in their forties and fifties might include: Awareness of unfilled dreams. Job insecurity or stress. Work becoming intermittent. Concerns over children or ageing parents or both. Family or relationship breakdown or job loss. Realisation that time is finite. Health issues or poor physical health. Try and maintain an optimistic attitude. Eat healthily, sleep well, exercise and socialise. Remember: ' Forty is the old age of youth and fifty is the youth of old age.' Not that old age is necessarily a terrible thing. In fact, some people report to being happier than ever in their senior years. RETIREMENT. Challenges facing retirees and the elderly may include: Unfulfilled needs for status, meaning and purpose. Loss of sense of belonging to a community. Lack of self-esteem and self-adva

As we have seen in the posts entitled ' Mental Health Awareness Week: 14-20 May 2018- some issues are perennial, such as relationship concerns, health worries and money worries. Trauma can occur at any stage in life and there is no predicting when the stresses of life will suddenly mount up to the point of feeling overwhelming. We all go through tough times, but it's not just what  we go through that determines our ability to cope, but how we deal with the stress- how we still manage to meet our needs as best we can, retain hope, and feel empowered. Once we understand the typical stresses of the cycle, we can prepare ourselves and others to best manage them. And a big part of this lies in having good support from others. So, what can we learn in general? Well, primarily relationships matter . Having warm, good, and wide-ranging friendships and relationships helps us all mentally, physically, and even financially. The one and only constant in life is change. The body m