The term “ageing” is initially referred to biology and degeneration of biological and physiological processes. At the same time it’s important to consider that psychological factors play a huge part in a person’s life, having immense or sometimes even decisive influence on biological processes. The most known display of such an influence is a placebo effect that is managing the physiological processes with certainties.
That’s why the concept of ageing manifestations, or senility, is of a great importance. Senility is package of psychic processes and following displays peculiar to people who grow or grew decrepit.
It’s very important to understand that the ageing development provides a very powerful assistance to degenerative physiological processes. There’s inverse positive connection: one strengthens another.
The opposite is true as well: fighting the ageing processes that is eliminating the psychic processes which form senility and the follow-up displays slows down the growth of decrepitude (to unknown extent).
It’s essential to understand that ageing manifestations start to appear at a very young age. I often see 10 years old kids with strongly pronounced ageing displays, and it’s much easier to see in Europeans, Americans, in the representatives of developed cultures. At the same time I very rarely see it in kids from the under-developed (technically) countries such as Nepali, Laos etc. It is certainly not just a coincidence. The reason should most probably lie in the aggregate of total constraint used in developed countries and has a killing influence of destroying the life richness of the kid, thus causing the processes of decrepitude.
Senility is the result of becoming totally unassembled, distractible, absent-minded, when someone has less and less energy and more and more tiredness of life, indifference to life. We can introduce the term “psychomarkers of ageing” by analogy with the term “biomarker of ageing”, which will present the displays resulted from lowering of life richness and overall psychic degeneration.
There are many displays of senility and it’s an interesting task to list them step by step. Many of them are considered standard and normal and people pay attention to it only when they reach it’s apogee. I give 2 displays of senility:
*) use of incorrect words.
A person with strongly pronounced senility is lazy to find adequate words. The more the senility, the more inadequate, incorrect or even completely irrelevant to the context words. First of all it refers to spoken language, less to written language.
*) absence of optimization in small actions
It’s also considered normal before it reaches the extent when it becomes completely impossible to have any joint activity. But it starts from small details.
For example, a person copies a piece of text to insert it into his message, grabbing extra unnecessary word. He inserts this text into the message and deletes the unnecessary word, though he could’ve copied the piece of text without that word initially. Is it a trifle? Yes. And there are hundreds, thousands of such trifles every day. The first signs of body disease are also obscure, nonetheless preventive measures to diseases is an important part of health protection. It’s very important to catch the disease in the very beginning and doctors understand it. It’s as important to catch and diagnose senility and start the treatment as early as possible.
Other than that, hunting the displays of senility can become an interesting activity, and efforts of reaching optimization can bring pleasure as well as any other developing and interesting game.
It would be interesting to do the following:
- Make the list of senility displays.
- Make the tests for each display so someone can be tested and get the numeric evaluation of his “senility rate”.