Any women here over 50?

Ice, I'm having the same experience as you. My 50's are much different than my 40's. I feel so much older! My KNEES HURT and I love to work outside in the yard.

In my 40's I still felt this pressure to look young, not look too old, etc. But turning 50 has been freeing. I'm old and it's okay to look my age. I eat what I want when I want, I've gained a few pounds but that's alright too!

My 40's were a more busy time, turning 50 and beyond I am aware much more often that I have more time behind me than ahead of me. That makes me more introspective, more aware of my feelings of wanting closure in certain relationships and areas of my life.

It also has me thinking of just how I want to spend the lesser time I have left. It's time to enjoy life a bit more, isn't it? That's what I find myself thinking and feeling. I'm more selfish. And I like it!!! And I'm finally through the hot flashes and all done with menopause. So add me to the list of 50+ women.

Ditto!
Isn't it grand to give ourselves permission to play?
Cap

Hi there. I am also over 50. I'll write more another time, but feel free to look at my profile or whatever.

I just want to know when the 50's+ chat occurs...I wouldn't miss that for the world.

The special social club for women that I started for us is still going

It is for ladies over 50. I named it :
"Ladies Age 50 and Better"

Please come over and check it out. I'd love for you to join.

We can plan a meeting at a certain time and day to chat about what every anyone wants to chat on

What is best for you all?

Heygimm (means: Hey God, it's me Margaret) from Judy Blume's early book

But my real name is Vicki, I just always loved that kids book when she was exploring God.

Most any time is all right with me...

Cap

just let me know the time/date

In a perfect world:
My knees won't hurt from sitting too long.
My hips won't hurt on rainy/cold days.
I can sneeze without worrying about...well
I can get to the toilet before the damn breaks

Uh, I meant the dam, not the damn....

that's what I usually say when it happens

Capp, I hear ya'

Well, I don't know. I'll be 55 in a month. I thought this was a site for people who have been diagnosed w/mental disorders & I was wondering what you all have been diagnosed with because I want it!! Give me your DSM code, please, so I can write down the symptoms & try to "catch" it as you are having way too much fun for "mentally ill" people.

So a little about me--yes, I'm in your age group, but I guess I'm struggling w/a few different things. No hot flashes (I wish that were my problem), but bipolar disorder cycling & have had some major problems w/a really bad period of depression that led to some drastic behaviors on my part...

Emergency room--pumping my stomach kind of stuff--which I hadn't done in many, many years as my mother had--well, don't want to spoil the party here.

Have 2 grown children. 33 yr.-old daughter who is a law prof. married to a lawyer & a 29 yr.-old son who is a civil engineer (single) & they are remarkably still close to me & maintain a loving relationship w/me despite the hardship of having me as a mother. I was open w/them about my illness when they were growing up.

Also, been married 35 yrs. to my high school sweet heart (been together since I was 15 & he was 16 & we met at boarding school). Yes, he is a saint to have gone through all he has w/me.

So we are nearing retirement age (for him). I only work part-time. We have a 2nd home that we will relocate to in a year, hopefully. Meanwhile, we go there once a month (Southwest)--live in the Midwest--as he can telecommute w/his job & my job is very flexible.

So are any of you dealing w/mental health issues as well?

I'm still in intensive therapy & Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (group therapy/class) & take several medications. It is a daily struggle to maintain wellness.

Looks like you all are having a great party! Do I hear Jimmy Buffet singing in the background??--Suzy

Suzy,
I don't think they've diagnosed our "condition" yet.
But humor has helped me many, many times to throw off that depression inching its' way up my legs and into my brain.

Mine are Depression, PTSD, CSA survivor, and a few others that haven't been named yet, either.
I'm on meds, practice alternative methods, try and be involved here at PC, and a multitude of little things to keep me happy.

I was depressed about 3.5 minutes after I left my Mum's uterus...and I've gone in and out of it all my life--the depression, not her uterus.

Welcome!

Cap

I don't know that we have a condition, as it were, except that many of us seem to get slammed with so many problems when we hit the 50 mark. The body hits a weird stage, and society wants to push us aside for a younger model.

For me I'm still having periods every month (getting close to age 55); I'm about to get an MA in English; the employment outlook is down the toilet; and my adored mother died in January. I would kill myself if it wasn't because I can't do that to my animal companions.

If there is anyone among us who isn't on meds, I'd like to hear about it.

After all the problems I have been through in life, and everyone else, what we do need is a good laugh! There is lots of good out there, and these days, I am preferring to find that, and get away from my depressing, always angry, daughter. I have tadpoles on my table that I caught with my sons little ones. Now ,that makes me smile!

What a delight to hear from you all! It has made a certain sadness and lonliness subside. Still hope to all pile into a chat room one day and have a 'conflab' (just thinking, where did that word come from and really would anyone under 50 even know what it means?! LOL).

“Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind.”
Albert Einstein

I'm over 50, too.
Back problems; knee issues; flab around the middle.
Oh, and don't forget the bifocals!

I've got my cat and my gold fish to keep me company now.
My son's grown, (well, age wise anyway, lol!)
Got rid of the ex 9 years ago, (should have been 29 years ago!)
Haven't had sex since,
and that's about the only thing I miss...

Parents are both gone, RIP.
Six siblings with fairly good relationships.

And I'm still crazy after all these years!
(To borrow from Paul Simon!
And only those of us 50 somethings would remember him! )

Peace!

I'm over 55 though I feel much younger emotionally. I don't look my age and that's a mixed blessing. I've always hated to look young because people are so surprised when they find out my real age. I try not to tell them, though.

I'm a grandmother. That's a wonderful part of being older!! But I now have prediabetes and am getting cataracts. I am always tired. I got kind of depressed on my last birthday because I'm really OLD. I know the number really doesn't mean anything, and I could care less the age of anyone on a forum. It's just the content that is important.

It's nice to have this thread for us "oldies but goodies"!!

I used to be a Hayley Mills fan.

Ooooooo, I was so in love with Haley Mills! (blond hair has always caught my eye!) My friends and I used to re-enact Pollyanna & in Search of the Castaways all the time. Should have heard us Savannah, Georgia children mimicking a London accent - LOL!

I was crushed when she married that man who was 30 years older than her, seemed crazy then!

Notz--what about The Parent Trap? I still watch it occasionally. There is a video with Hayley as an adult, now, talking about the filming, and about the double, how they filmed her twice, etc. Fascinating!

Did you see Tiger Bay? That was her first movie, with Horst Bucholtz and also her father, John Mills. I must have seen it 50 times, as I recorded it from TV. My friend and I had a HM scrapbook, and we wrote her letters.

Yeah, I got so disillusioned when she married that guy. She didn't age so well, either. She looks terribly old. Her birthday was April 19th. and she was 63, I think. I used to know EVERYTHING about her and her family.