{"id":2596,"date":"2023-09-03T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2023-09-03T10:21:25","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T07:21:25","slug":"negative-thoughts-about-aging-can-be-harmful-heres-how-to-reduce-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/negative-thoughts-about-aging-can-be-harmful-heres-how-to-reduce-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative thoughts about aging can be harmful. Here\u2019s how to reduce them."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Age bias doesn\u2019t show up only as discrimination or snarky birthday cards. One potent source of ageism comes from older people themselves.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louise Pendry was teaching a psychology course in a cramped classroom at the University of Exeter when she found herself awkwardly climbing over her desk to allow students to come to the front and present. Her legs got caught in some equipment cables, and she lost her balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pendry, a senior lecturer, quipped to her students, \u201cI\u2019m not the woman I used to be, clearly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ironically, the course was about stereotyping. After class, a student suggested that Pendry had engaged in age bias \u2014 against herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd I thought, \u2018absolutely true,\u2019\u201d Pendry, 57, said. \u201cYou know what? Anybody would have struggled to clamber over those desks. It wasn\u2019t just because I was older.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/08\/17\/internalized-ageism-health-effects-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2023\/08\/17\/internalized-ageism-health-effects-solutions\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age bias doesn\u2019t show up only as discrimination or snarky birthday cards. One potent source of ageism comes from older people themselves. Louise Pendry was teaching a psychology course in a cramped classroom at the University of Exeter when she found herself awkwardly climbing over her desk to allow students to come to the front&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[160,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aging-el","category-emotions-feelings-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/imrs-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-FS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}