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DESCRIPTION:- Before, everything seemed easy. After the age of 40, eyelid twitching increases the risk of stroke. How can we explain this strong fear of death from middle age? The answers of two clinical psychologists.
What if this headache was hiding a tumor? And these stress-related heart palpitations, a stroke? And what about that diaphragmatic contracture (due to your last yoga pose) that suggests the worst? After the age of 40, the smallest health problem is frightening. In any case, more than before. “Like anxiety attacks or depressive moods, the fear of illness is one of the symptoms of the fear of death,” commented clinical psychologist Meret Fard (1). At the age of 40, it suddenly seems to intensify, like the sense of time. All this leads to a slightly disturbing observation. we are closer to the end than the beginning.
The end of magical thinking
To understand what is going on in our minds at this moment in life, we have to go back to childhood. If at the age of 7 a child is afraid of the death of his parents, realizing that it is irreversible, the concept of mortality remains only theoretical for a long time. And this is for a simple reason.
Source: Le Figaro
