By BoomerYearbook.com

Baby boomers approaching their mid fifties tend to take stock, with a view to planning as comfortable a retirement as possible in circumstances that may not be financially rosy. The average baby boomer comes from a generation accustomed to getting the best that money can buy and a retirement spent economizing on groceries is hardly ideal.

Typically, baby boomers spend only a little time cursing the government and the banks and the oh-so-clever money men who got them into this mess, choosing instead to focus on a solution to subsidize their income in later years.

Baby boomer professionals are firm believers in getting things done the right way and paying the right man for the right job. This does not mean, however, that older operatives cannot learn new skills – or that picking up a pension following a successful career means enforced retirement. Many energetic and super motivated over fifties choose to take up a second career out of a desire to remain active but the truth is that the majority seek work to sponsor their ‘retirement’.

An augmented income for seniors can be a big financial help and make all the difference to enjoying retirement to the full. Find more information about second careers online. That second income might be used for grocery treats; for taking foreign holidays and exploring Rome and the Far East instead of being confined to vacations nearer to home by budget limitations; or it might simply cover membership of the golf club, which might otherwise be unaffordable. Whatever the reason for re-applying the nose to the grindstone, the choices are vast and varied:

• Medical professionals such as trained and well qualified nurses might consider a new career in child minding or home nursing, either professionally or privately, both of which require formal checks. ‘Attending’ as a supervisor for first aid training is a job traditionally reserved for qualified personnel but the role carries none of the pressures of a full time hospital position. Company nurses are sometimes recruited from retired medical staff and happily spend their time mostly in administration on a smaller but nonetheless welcome salary.
• The real estate business can sometimes provide employment for retired quantity or chartered surveyors; builders; decorators and ex employees of land offices. Experience is valuable and potential employers are delighted to pay a lower premium for someone with know-how.
• The internet has brought the era of the home based worker to the attention of prospective retirees with a cash flow problem. Outsourcing is a great way to start up a company or work for someone who is willing to pay an agreed rate. Outsourced jobs include engineering design; web work; writing and translation services; graphic design; illustration services and even ‘virtual’ assistance and secretarial duties. The advantages are obvious: there are few overheads; you can pick and choose your contracts without the conventional restrictions of the workplace and you can go to work in your pyjamas if you feel like it.

Freelancing

Freelance contracting offers so many obvious advantages for baby boomers: there is nobody to tell you how to run your job; you can cut off a relationship with any client whom you feel does not offer a satisfying work experience (although good commercial manners should always govern behavior in that direction); there is total freedom of enterprise, allowing clever contractors to charge what the market will allow and there are no restrictions to branching into other areas of expertise.

No corporate ladder! How great is that!

There are some reputable outsourcing websites to explore but remember to exercise caution when trawling the internet for work: never part with personal information and read terms and conditions carefully before entering into contracts.

The Psychological Article on Second Careers and How to Deal With Them is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Second Careers and Where to Find Them

By BoomerYearbook.com

The age of the computer has brought us freedom: freedom of easy reference; the capability to source information previously available only in libraries or by lengthy letter enquiry. Wanting a second career is only the start of the journey for determined baby boomers. Finding the right occupation is a challenge but with the help of the internet it is possible to ‘reassess’ your talents and skills before getting out there to look for that special second string to your bow.

It is always a good idea to interact with others and make use of forums where ambitious fifties gather to swap interesting information. Other people’s ideas provide a springboard for your own so take the opportunity to learn how others are getting on in the job world.

A new career might be necessary but not necessarily daunting. Baby boomers have a special gift for insisting on the best and somehow getting it against all odds. Being the ‘new guy’ on the other side of fifty can be both financially rewarding and amusing if you approach the situation with:

• A sense of humor
• A determination to enjoy your new working life.
• A positive outlook. Negativity is the enemy of any successful venture, especially starting over in a new career late in life

From the employers’ point of view, a mature employee with years of valuable experience can be a huge bonus. Offices and factories are operated with subtle differences but the fundamental rules and guidelines of commerce are similar in most areas of the manufacturing and service industries. Additionally, forward thinking companies are beginning to appreciate that mature baby boomer staff members offer great free training resources for ‘newbies’ on a ‘buddy’ system.

There are retirees who look forward to widening their horizons by stepping into an entirely new profession at ground level. Trainees, even mature ones, are under little pressure to perform and this period of learning can be the most fun a rookie will have for years to come! This is possibly the only opportunity one will ever have to take an entirely different direction in life. Throwing away the opportunity to pick up a pension earned over twenty years to pursue a new career during one’s thirties and forties can be a strong incentive to do the time; as a result, many wait a long time to switch careers and look forward to embracing that long nurtured dream.

Finding the training

Stepping into the unknown can be worrysome – especially without any inkling of what to expect. Training information online is profuse, with advice on how baby boomers might obtain instruction, creditation, qualifications and the all important confidence to step into a brand new World.

The money is certainly an incentive but there is little point in dreading getting out of bed in the morning to face a job one cannot stand! Finding the right role that utilizes individual skills is imperative to success and happiness in a second career. Tempting as it is to find work that is totally different it is more practical to perform a role that stretches one’s talents and skills to avoid losing them through lack of use.

For those who want to go back to a job but lack the imagination or know how to source the correct type of work, there are consultants and recruitment packages in abundance, both in government sponsored programs and online. Pick one! But be sure to explore all the possibilities of one thing before you hop to another possibility. The market is huge so detailed research is important to get an accurate idea of what is out there and whether it offers what you are looking for. Where training is offered, seize the opportunity to learn new skills or update those you already have.

Pension issues

Bear in mind when considering a return to the workplace that a state sourced pension will be affected in terms of tax; likely to be withdrawn entirely or at least significantly reduced while you are earning. Tax implications are clearly laid out on government websites: make stringent enquiries before launching your new career.

The Psychological Article on Second Careers and Where to Find Them is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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Exercising the Brain for Mental Health

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The neural structure of the brain begins developing in the human fetus and continues to expand and develop throughout life; a constant and unending learning and computing process that begins with the task of hunting for food for survival and ends with the struggle to stay sharp and efficient until death.

The brain has an amazing ability to adapt to circumstances, learning new skills to cope with life’s changes and with the natural process of aging. As we live our lives, our brains perform countless and multiple calculations in response to our environment.

This may be demonstrated by a simple effort to write with the other hand – left handed people might try writing with their right hand, for example. It is uncomfortable and the writing quality is poor but with practice the writing will improve as the brain learns the skills required to produce the desired results. Other simple day to day skills may be attempted to strengthen one’s ambidexterity, such as hair brushing or telephone dialing.

Stimulation is the key to a healthy brain, both mentally and physically. Healthy physical exercises such as aerobics help baby boomers in turn to promote healthy brain muscle: allowing a slow down in physical processes can result in a poor mental performance.

Mental stimulation forbaby boomers should involve learning something new as often as possible, forcing the mind to explore new concepts. A person with set hobbies and interests is less likely to retain a sharp perception than someone who actively seeks new challenges by learning how to conquer new motor skills or perhaps a new language.

Extensive reading is a highly recommended brain stretcher. However, reading the same old romances over and over is not going to contribute to the health of anyone’s brain! Reading should be prolific; sweeping a wide range of topics, encouraging the mind to expand to engulf new ideas and perceptions.

The finest way to ensure baby boomers’ bodies and brains remain healthy is to pursue both mental and physical activities for as many hours in the day as possible. Manual skills that require an element of hand and eye coordination and a certain amount of mental calculation are excellent leisure hour fillers – hobbies that fall into this category are knitting and sewing; wood crafts; modeling; painting; sculpting and pottery.

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Games that require an amount of brainwork are excellent for keeping the mind active and alert with:

• Scrabble
• crosswords
• the baby boomer website, BoomerYearbook.com’s Concentration Game
• Sudoku
• electronic games
• Social card games such as Bridge or Whist

All enforce an amount of calculation and reasoning, some of which are outside one’s ‘comfort zone’. It is the boundaries of the comfort zone that must be confronted to ensure the mind is made to work significantly harder.

The left and right side of the brain control different skills: simple tests can determine which side of the brain an individual favors, such as the dancing girl featured on BoomerYearbook.com. It is important that both sides of the brain are exercised – trying to see the dancing girl turn in both directions is the challenge!

Taking an hour or two to browse titles in the local bookstore that one would normally pass by can be enlightening. Selecting a book that is totally outside one’s usual interest and determinedly reading it from cover to cover can open doors in the mind previously shut tight while one’s brain vegetated happily for years! Start with something factual and set targets to read certain passages each day.

Some baby boomers actively seek opportunities to participate in general knowledge quizzes in retirement, or begin to keep a regular journal to sharpen their writing skills. It does not matter how the brain is stretched, provided that it somehow is!

With advancing years, the baby boomers’ need to exercise the brain increases. As retirement approaches, too many of us are prepared to ‘give the brain a rest’ – brains do not need a rest! They actually need just the opposite kind of therapy to stay happy and healthy and to avoid shut down.

The Psychological Article on Exercising the Brain for Mental Health is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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By BoomerYearbook.com

The present day world and world population can be aptly referred to as the one that desires love and intimacy. And baby boomers of today are coming forward to prove this fact all over again. There is no subject in the present day society which is completely free of any kind of misconception or myth. The fact that baby boomers are one of those classes of people in the world, who have not just a healthy sex life, but a rocking life in the bed, goes on to testify to this.

A research-based study which commenced in the year 2004, testifies to the fact that baby boomers were largely successful in maintaining that special spark in their sex life. The research study was based on the opinions of 1700 different respondents, and all the respondents of the study were above the age of forty five years. The respondent population consulted took the interests as well as the opinions of at least three fourth of the entire population of world baby boomers, which stands at a staggering figure of seventy eight million. The study confirms that baby boomers had a super sex life and enjoyed their sexual sessions to the core. There are a host of different reasons which can be accounted for such an observation. One of the most important reasons is that baby boomers have a very well tuned bonding amongst themselves. It is this bonding that acts as a fuel to their rocking sex life and hurls them towards each other.

As the baby boomers revolution approaches its grey hair days, there are more than 58 million American citizens in the late stages of their 50s and 60s. The research has also gone out to exhibit that those American who were born post World War II, in the years of the baby boom, are giving a whole new definition to the word “old”. Today, 50s and 60s baby boomers are shunning off from the title of “old”, and reserving it for the ages of 70s and 80s. The most important parameter associated with old age, that is reducing sex drive, is one of the main reasons where baby boomers are proving the world wrong.

It has been a long kept myth in the psyches of our present day society that as a person greys and becomes old, the levels of libido in the body decrease: directly linking to a reduced sex drive. However, this is being proved wrong if you look at the present day baby boomers. The “old youngsters “of today are certainly on the move as far as their sexual drive is concerned. This is what the respondents brought out from the conducted study.

It is also a known fact that the level of sexual drive as well as erections in men decreases with growing age. However, this is not at all a deterrent for the present day baby boomer man. They do not let this biological phenomenon affect their sexual wants, desires as well or preferences.

The Psychological Article on Baby Boomers Enjoy Active Sex Lives is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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By Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com

Some years ago, a lengthy article was published by the BBC on the vagaries of the baby boomer generation. It was a damning critique of a generation hell bent on wrecking the planet, along with most of its social standards.

So how has the baby boomer species ruined the World? They stand accused of owning homes that are too big; gas guzzling cars that are too big and require to be driven too far each day to work and home again; taking too many holidays too often to exotic locations; over spoiling the grandchildren; causing the divorce rate to skyrocket; not to mention sexually transmitted diseases rumored to be rooted in baby boomer ‘free love’ from the sixties onward; and generally being a scourge on an otherwise relatively even keeled planet!

Although one or two boomers have made a half hearted attempt to protest their innocence and declare that their society is simply more transparent and that the World has always struggled with poor moral standards, in our modern society we tend to forget that the pre-baby boomer years were comparatively free from the alcohol and drug related problems we now have to deal with on a daily basis. Apart from the occasional ‘drunk’ who would be a local scandal, the thirties and forties were primarily wrapped in a cocoon of respectability until we baby boomers came along and exploded our values – or lack of them – on society; causing moral havoc everywhere.

To add insult to injury, the baby boomer generation continued its sexual freedom motif at all cost and instead of putting a curb on its sexual activities, spent gazillions on research to sponsor the ultimate birth control – the Pill!! Hooray! Contraception was the new age weapon against unwanted pregnancy and funded with almost the same enthusiasm as the space race. Sexually transmitted diseases were warded off with condoms, brought to modern sophistication to make them more comfortable and marketed to exhaustion: with relatively foolproof protection at its fingertips the baby boomer set thumbed its nose at the rest of the World and carried on doing what it did best…

But – we baby boomers have also blessed the World with some ‘good stuff’. Let us not forget space travel; plastic surgery; computer technology; alternative medicine; the mobile phone; the morning after pill; food hygiene; seat belts; disposable diapers; the hundreds of cures that have been brought to people with horrible diseases and disabilities: baby boomer technology is not all bad…

Baby boomers are thought to be single-handedly responsible for the breakdown of family values in the new Century. With the escalation of the divorce rate, the onset of the ‘new family unit’ became something the World had to cope with; stepsons and daughters having to build trusting relationships with step fathers and mothers; children abandoned while their natural fathers or mothers sought new relationships elsewhere; the old concept of ‘making your bed and lying in it’ out the window; to be replaced by the ‘take what you can get out of life because everyone else does’ attitude that is more typical of baby boomers than loyalty, fidelity and ‘staying together for the sake of the children’, so popular in pre-WW2 days.

‘Consumerism is all’ to many of the baby boomer generation; unsurprising when you consider the product standards on offer. Baby boomers have on their doorstep an array of consumer goods the like of which the World has never seen: stand in any department store on Christmas Eve or Hanukkah in New York or London or Paris and savor the aroma of melting credit card plastic, mingling with the scent of new fabrics, perfume and expensive leather to know just how baby boomers have changed the face of religious festivals Worldwide! We just don’t know when to stop, it seems…

Enhancement is the expensive and sought after ultimate boomer beauty routine – from top to toe, we boomers spend a fortune on our physical appearance. We like labels; we like our youthful image and we do not accept our advancing years as previous generations have graciously accepted theirs – bring on the Botox and the liposuction -and charge it!

As women continue to be liberated and strive for sexual equality; as gays fly out of the closet at the rate of knots and as America invites its first African American president to make a cameo appearance on ‘The Simpsons’, it is obvious that the boomer generation accepts nothing as impossible.

The greediest and most consumerist generation the World has ever seen is by nature deaf to criticism so there is little point in harping about boomers leaving the planet in poor condition! Knowing baby boomers, it will be passed on tagged ‘as seen!’

Baby boomers continue to procure the best that money can buy, despite dire warnings of recession; global warming; the death of the planet; disease; pestilence and the collapse of the family unit. Love us or hate us, we boomers at BoomerYearbook.com know that we are simply incorrigible…, and we wouldn’t have it any other way!

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By BoomerYearbook.com

The wishes and desires of valuable voters continue to go in one of President Obama’s ears and out of the other, with the 2010 Congressional elections predicted to bleed Democratic representation. With approximately 60% of polled opinion vehemently against the health reforms being politically force fed to the nation, it is perhaps to be expected that the 2010 Congressional elections and the 2012 presidential election might well be an awakening of souls!

Some believe a president’s approval rating matters a great deal more than many of the political issues that surround the economy. Obama’s ability to mobilize a powerful voting machine could well turn around his popularity and produce rabbits out of the hat in 2012 but such theatrical stunts are disapproved of by Obama’s competitors and supporters alike.

President Obama’s first year in office has consistently been profiled as a baptism by fire, with socialized healthcare predicted to bankrupt the country by murdering off an already ailing economy. Obama’s stubborn, unrelenting refusal to listen to the private sector voting sections of America who hollered and vehemently protested their objections to his public health plan has cost votes and seats, with more radical ‘politicats’ even dramatically calling for taking back congress!

By putting the sick and elderly on waiting lists and wafting disastrous Cap and Trade policies like so much putrid incense, the Democratic administration risks losing everything in the run up to 2012. It is predicted that numbers will gradually sink and slide and even Obama’s Teflon-like coating will begin to absorb the possibility that these policies are not what the nation wants or expects from presidential leadership.

Blaming George W Bush (“Dubyah”) for every little thing that goes wrong is also not going to fool anyone with a modicum of voting intelligence. There comes a time when policies must stand on their own merit and not be assigned to the vagaries of previous administrations every time they fail. As unemployment continues to peak around 10%, the country demands an employment strategy that will fix stuff rather than make sympathetic noises in the ears of voters who do not pay the lion’s share of the nation’s tax bill anyway.

With a downward slide predicted prior to 2012, President Obama is being urged to plaster over some of the cracks appearing in the voting fraternity at an alarming rate. The White House message that conveys the sentiment, ‘You will have this whether you want it or not’, is unlikely to win favor with hard working Americans lacking bottomless pockets who are expected to find more cash to sponsor health care reforms in an already stretched economy.

In the first months of the year, Obama is still being labeled a ‘one trick pony’, faring badly whenever challenged in debate by either Palin or McCain; challenged in the press as a president who changes nothing yet says anything to win, whatever that might be.

Obama’s popularity is all important to victory in 2012 yet might also represent for Democrats their worst hurdle if policy continues to fail in terms of results. An apologetic foreign policy and an inadequate and ineffective policy on terrorism wraps up the reason why many hard working, financially responsible Americans are understandably ticked off at the start of a new decade on Capitol Hill. Obama’s turning a deaf ear to these US voters may well bring a turnaround in the 2010 Congressional elections as well as defeating Obama’s re-election in 2012.

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Terrorism: A Personal Issue

By BoomerYearbook.com

Nigerian Umar Abdulmutallab is 23 years old, educated in London, and anyone meeting him for the first time would gain an impression of polite formality. He is respectful and considerate to his elders and also to anyone who is of a different culture to himself. Good with children; a quiet and private person and like so many of us, he prefers to keep his friendships slightly distant.

 
Abdulmutallab needs to keep his friends at arm’s length, because his goal in life is to die an Al Qaeda martyr and take the lives of as many innocent westerners with him as possible in the process. On Christmas Day, 2009, Abdulmutallab failed in an attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit, carrying explosives secreted in his underwear.

In the wake of 9/11, we all diligently made double and triple checks whenever we travelled and happily submitted to increased security precautions everywhere we went, understanding the necessity to put our safety above convenience. Little by little, that diligence has slipped, it seems, and recent security incidences all over the World highlight that extremist terrorist groups are yet again achieving footholds in the gaps in our security.

 
The profile of the young men recruited to be suicide bombers usually follow the same type: educated; polite; quiet; unassuming; well spoken; deadly. Such young men are promised rewards beyond their dreams in the life thereafter, in exchange for their mortality.
Intelligence profiles other young men in the process of training in Al Qaeda camps and the European press freely publicizes the imminent risk of more attacks on more planes and more innocent people. Yet America remains immersed in diplomacy instead of adopting a more appropriate all out campaign to tighten security.

 
America has been providing support for the Yemeni government in its battle with Islamic militants, but Yemen has become increasingly unstable, with more frequent terrorist attacks from Yemeni bases, such as the one perpetrated by Abdulmutallab on Christmas Day. It is thought that a great deal more intelligence on Yemeni suicide bombers is known by American security but not enough is being done to prevent further terrorist incidents; an appalling indictment considering the sweeping promises made to protect Americans following 9/11.
Full body scanners, combined with personal searches and spot checks, are being implemented in airports all over Europe at the start of the new decade, although some doubts are being expressed whether such precautions are effective against liquid explosives and the high tech devices being utilized by terrorists.

Pro Islamic groups everywhere are sparking debate on the question of innocent Muslims being marginalized and targeted as a result of over enthusiastic security but the reality is that complacency brings consequences too gruesome to risk.

We can do what we can do…in the meantime, surely the watchword is vigilance and the American public has little chance of encouraging vigilance if they are unaware of imminent danger. Information is vital to discovery in terms of uncovering plans of terrorist attacks.
Scores of similar attacks to the one attempted by Abdulmutallab are suspected to be planned for 2010. Taking steps to crush terrorism rather than appease those who sponsor its atrocities might be the more sensible policy in light of the danger posed to innocent American travellers.

At least that’s what we at BoomerYearbook.com think. We’d love to hear your opinion.

The Psychological Article on Terrorism: A Personal Issue is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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New Year Resolutions for the Baby Boomer Generation

Psychological Articles by Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com

As the baby boomer generation enters the final year of the last decade of a new Century, the World is in pretty poor shape. Economic hardship has meant a falling of standards for many people. The New Year is a great opportunity to regroup and review our policies on how we intend to face the next decade.

Some simply do not believe in the process of making and keeping resolutions, believing the concept to be flawed: why promise yourself change? Why not just change? The point is the resolve itself: I will do it – I have to do it – I am going to do it. Whatever works for some people is nonsense to others. Psychological articles teach us that New Year’s resolutions are a new beginning; a chance to start over; a clean page.

New Year resolutions can be simple or complicated. They might concern family relationships and a promise to improve – a determination not rise to Grandma’s incessant nagging or the wife’s extravagances – or they might involve professional advancement – working harder or helping someone else’s efforts at work. A resolution might even be a personal one that nobody else hears about – losing weight; getting fit; eating healthily; giving up smoking or drinking or both.

The baby boomer generation have always made quite a thing out of resolving to improve in the New Year and some of us have striven valiantly to achieve results: others have fallen at a few fences but courageously make the same resolution each New Year in the hope that a miracle occurs!

Living Green is the new resolution on the lips of so many well meaning baby boomer reform addicts this year. Living Green entails being a responsible citizen and using common sense to help prolong the life of the planet: using pump sprays instead of aerosols; recycling; buying recycled products whenever possible and helping to keep our environment eco-friendly. Psychological articles note that Planet Killing has replaced the Smoking Stigma!
People who do not properly ‘zone’ their garbage by faithfully separating plastics and paper and glass are considered to be slightly unsavory and not nice to know!

Someone with the skill to re-make and make-do and overhaul is considered to subscribe to the new talents of the 21st Century and this year’s resolutions are centered on eco skills: honing the ones we have and learning new ones.

The other major resolution being made this year concerns making economies in the home – big style. Personal improvements are being set aside this year in favor of making the changes necessary for survival in the wake of the worst economic climate in eighty years. So in homes across America this year, lights are being switched off; heating is being set on a timer; fast cook recipes are being unearthed to save energy and last year’s wardrobe is being adapted to style.

The New Year dawns on a new era of baby boomer resolve and adaptability, and we boomers are ready to face the challenge.

The Psychological Article on New Year Resolutions for the Baby Boomer Generation is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

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This series of articles from Boomer Yearbook explores the fascinating and varied behavioral patterns that occur when baby boomers are affected by outside events, or by the impact of the modern World; the challenges faced by men of the new age and the hurdles that must be addressed: Boomer Yearbook’s Guide and Coaching Strategy for the baby boomer generation

Hangover Cures: The Best and The Worst

Psychological Articles by Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com

Any self respecting baby boomer with experience of the psychedelic zoom of the sixties and seventies will remember all too well what a bad hangover feels like! It feels like death, that’s what it feels like! A really bad hangover can have all the symptoms of serious disease and knowing it was self inflicted brings surprisingly little comfort!

Part of formulating a cure entails knowing what alcohol does to your body. Psychological articles state the main problem as being that alcohol severely dehydrates, so all the best hangover remedies include re-hydrating your poor abused bod and waiting for improvements.

Anyone who drinks regularly will tell you that a good dose of junk food with a generous helping of grease will help. It certainly can make you feel better but it is not necessarily providing the internal environment your body needs to recover properly from an excess of alcohol.

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A side product of alcohol is acetaldehyde, responsible for making the nervous system twitchy and producing mild depression for someone trying to recover from too much alcohol. It’s unpleasant, producing dreadful headaches and a loss of balance. No wonder you feel like hell! Dry mouth; nausea; stomach cramps; high temperature – if you look them up online, the symptoms are similar to those experienced during the early stages of cholera.

Okay, so enough of the lectures, let’s consider some remedies:

Coffee is a no-no, despite it being the most attractive option. It’s a diuretic, dum-dum! The Hair of The Dog is also a bad idea – it’s like trying to cure a broken leg by breaking the other leg! Water is good: plenty of it.

Try mixing in a blender a banana; strawberries; a tablespoon of honey; a pinch of salt; milk, a tomato and orange juice. It sounds disgusting but it actually tastes okay. Drink it with a tablet dose of concentrated vitamin C. Wait for developments.

The ice pack is always soothing. However, be warned that the ice pack on the head cure has been tried by baby boomer drinkers the World over and found to be ineffective for a serious headache, requiring the application of additional restoratives. Never apply the ice pack directly to the head; always wrap it in a towel and apply for twenty minute intervals only to avoid causing an ice ‘burn’ to your skin.

Baby boomer women in the Australian outback swear by a wool shed concoction called ‘The Quick and The Dead’ – consisting of a vile mixture of egg yolks mixed with bicarbonate of soda, milk and brandy. Needless to say, the potion induces vomiting, hence the recipe name (if you’re not quick, you’ll be dead) – a fine example of the cure being worse than the disease!

Baby boomer parties of the late twentieth Century prompted detailed research into the effects of alcohol and it has become apparent that people who are under weight suffer more than those who are carrying extra weight. Great – drunk AND fat!

Psychological articles note that as with all things, prevention of the effects of alcohol is better than cure and there are ways to prepare for a night of heavy drinking that will limit the damage.

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How to Escape a Hangover: Pre Party Precautions

Psychological Articles by Dr. Karen for BoomerYearbook.com

Surprisingly, a lady baby boomer is less likely to take pre party precautions against the effects of alcohol than a male baby boomer. Why should that be? Perhaps because in the hours before a party or social gathering, ladies are concerned with their appearance or arranging baby sitting or fixing snacks for the children – rushing through a dozen tasks prior to going out for the evening and possibly neglecting the opportunity to safeguard against a hangover the following day.

Serious party goers have actually been known to drink before they leave the house. This practice of ‘kick starting’ an evening is extremely stupid and bound to cause long term problems over time. Some people do this to combat nervousness or shyness, finding the alcohol slightly sedating. Far from drinking alcohol before the evening commences party goers should eat rather than drink, to help ward off some seriously unpleasant symptoms of hangover.

It is a fact that food helps with a hangover and it makes the symptoms less unpleasant. But whatever you eat before you drink alcohol will make you feel infinitely less like death in the morning. Take the opportunity to eat something before going out drinking, especially if you know there will be little food served at the party. A sandwich and a glass of orange juice is a great pre-fixative for an evening’s drinking, as the carbohydrate and the Vitamin C helps the system cope with the alcohol. A well fed baby boomer is less likely to suffer in the morning!

Assuming you have managed to squeeze in a small sandwich and a glass or orange juice, go ahead and primp yourself up for the best party ever, but before you step out of the front door, drink a full glass of water too. When you are agonizing over what to wear and whether the cab is going to show up on time it is easy to forget you need to take care of yourself we are told in psychological articles, but observing these eating and drinking rituals before going out will reap benefits in the morning.

The baby boomer party attitude is traditionally one of abandonment but as we get older we need to take care of our party equipment to ensure it stays in shape for many years in the future! People who try the eating and drinking ritual before going out invariably adopt it as habit once they experience the difference in how they feel the next day.

Alcohol is a diuretic, according to psychological articles that explore the effects it has upon the fragile human frame! Realistically we all like to drink – thus we at BoomerYearbook.com think it makes sense to prevent rather than cure!

The Psychological Article on How to Escape a Hangover: Pre Party Precautions is part of Boomer Yearbook’s continuing series of baby boomers psychological coaching tips and how to alleviate elderly problems. We believe knowledge is power. We’d love to hear what you think.

Boomer Yearbook is a Social Network and Psychological Articles for Baby Boomers. Connect with old and new friends, or expand your mind and ward off senior moments and elderly problems with dream analysis and online optical illusions and brain games provided by clinical psychologist Dr. Karen Turner. Join other Baby Boomers to stay informed, receive weekly Newsfeeds, and let your opinions be heard. Baby boomers changed the world. We’re not done yet!