How Therapy Can Help in the Golden Years
By ABBY ELLIN
April 22, 2013
Marvin Tolkin was 83 when he decided that the
unexamined life wasn’t worth living. Until then, it had never occurred to him
that there might be emotional “issues” he wanted to explore with a counselor.
“I
don’t think I ever needed therapy,” said Mr. Tolkin, a retired manufacturer of
women’s undergarments who lives in Manhattan and Hewlett Harbor, N.Y.
Though he wasn’t clinically depressed, Mr. Tolkin
did suffer from migraines and “struggled through a lot of things in my life” —
the demise of a long-term business partnership, the sudden death of his first
wife 18 years ago. He worried about his children and grandchildren, and his relationship
with his current wife, Carole.
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