Conventional wisdom is ...

There is a common opinion about the corruption of nature, the conservatism of older, their unmotivated touchiness, egocentrism, hypochondriacal, depriving their impressions of novelty and are a major mechanism for violations of psychological adaptation. The result of the epidemiological work carried out by domestic and foreign gerontopsihiatrami was the idea of ??sustainable high prevalence of mental disorders among non-psychotic level of the population of older age groups, which accounted for, according to different investigators, at least one-third of cases, stress-related conditions. It should be noted that late age is considered in psychogeriatric literature as a factor in increased risk of developing stress-related mental disorders [2]. Ranking of stressful life events showed that a group of elderly patients first in order of importance is death or illness of close relatives, the second - an acute onset or worsening medical condition of the patients themselves, the third - interpersonal relations in a family with a sense of social exclusion, loneliness among relatives. Significant role in the formation of anxiety in older women is menopause, which is one of the critical biological phases in a woman's life. If in the XVII century, menopause was transferred no more than 28% of women at the present time in developed countries, age at menopause is 95%. Climacteric syndrome - a syndrome of vegetative-vascular, neuropsychiatric and metabolic-endocrine disorders, and mental disorders are required, and in some cases - lead [6]. Anxiety manifests itself as a diffuse, very unpleasant, often vague expectation of something and runs on the background of one or more somatic sensations - such as chest tightness, sweating, shortness of breath, dizziness or discomfort in the stomach. Anxiety is an aberration that occurs in anticipation of an uncertain risk of adverse developments. Pathological anxiety can provoke such objects and situations, both open and closed space, height, spiders, snakes, thunder, travel, crowds, strangers, etc. This experience is always manifest to a degree totally incommensurate with the real danger of these objects and situations . Symptoms defining anxiety may hronifitsirovatsya and lead to disability. In some cases they make it difficult for other painful disorders, reducing the patient's willingness to comply with prescribed treatments and thereby worsening the prognosis. For anxiety syndrome characterized by: the subjective experience caused directly alarming symptoms, ie, a symptom of anxiety in its literal sense, avoidance behavior, ie, phobic component, and autonomic dysfunction. Combination of these components may be different in nature, that ultimately determines the diversity of clinical manifestations of anxiety.