In fact, emotions have always affected our physical health.
How does pessimism affect physical health? How should emotions be managed? Liu Hua, deputy director of the Oncology Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, gave a detailed introduction.
Pessimism affects physical health
Pessimistic cognition can lead to adverse neuroendocrine changes in the brain, resulting in low or abnormally high immune function, abnormal cardiovascular function, etc.
Long-term bad emotions are more harmful to the body, and may even be passed on to the next generation through epigenetic inheritance .
Some studies have shown that pessimism is also related to tumors.
Long-term bad mood will lead to the accumulation of harmful mutations in genetic factors. If the immune system cannot catch and eliminate them in time, it will slowly develop into cancer.
Although the mechanism by which pessimism causes cancer is not fully understood, it has been shown to be an important regulatory factor in cancer progression.
At the same time, cancer patients are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and show poorer prognosis than normal healthy individuals. Major depression is common in cancer patients, with the incidence rate being four times higher than in the general population.
Depression is associated with worse outcomes for cancer patients, including noncompliance with treatment and increased mortality in the oncological setting.
Deputy Director Liu Hua reminded that long-term bad emotions will promote the occurrence and development of tumors, and the tumors themselves will aggravate the bad emotions, forming a vicious cycle.
How to manage emotions
It is very necessary to correctly intervene in pessimistic emotions. Deputy Director Liu Hua introduced an emotion management method - ABCDE management method .
The point of view of this therapy is that if you want to eliminate negative emotions, you should change your own cognition, so as to improve the generation of negative emotions.
Among them:
A represents external events
B represents your views and beliefs about this matter
C represents the bad emotions caused by the matter
D Debate with unreasonable views B
E Get the result of the debate and form a positive concept
can be understood as:
got Knowing about tumors (A) will undoubtedly cause psychological pressure and fear (C). You may feel that you are terminally ill and plan to treat it negatively (B). However, there are more and more cases of cancer cure in medicine, and cancer is not scary. Yes, recovery is possible with active treatment (D).
After changing your mentality and taking active treatment, you become optimistic, gain a higher quality of life, a longer survival period and even cure cancer (E).
Traditional Chinese Medicine's Management of Emotions
As early as thousands of years ago, ancient Chinese medicine practitioners have recognized the pathogenicity of emotional disorders and regarded them as important internal factors in causing disease - "internal causes".
mentioned in " Prescriptions for Three Causes and One Disease Syndrome " that "the seven emotions are the normal nature of human beings. When they are activated, they first arise from the internal organs and take shape in the limbs." This means that emotional disorders will not only affect the functions of the internal organs. , and will change people's external behavior.
In regulating emotions, Chinese medicine emphasizes "regulating qi and relieving depression, regulating qi and regulating qi, and making emotions easy and easy to change."
Emotional problems will block the flow of the body's qi movement, the ups and downs, . Stagnation of qi movement is a "bad sign" when the disease strikes, and the "troubleshooting" of traditional Chinese medicine is to "regulate qi, open up depression, and regulate the flow of qi." "Qi", through related decoctions and prescriptions, acupuncture and massage, guidance gymnastics, etc., we can harmonize our body's qi and make our emotions smooth.
The main source of emotional problems lies in the word "emotion". The change of emotions is the most fundamental. As the saying goes, "the liver is at peace without being frightened by favor or disgrace". On the one hand, we must minimize the negative stimulation of the internal and external environment. On the other hand, To improve your psychological adjustment ability.
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Hunan Medical Chat special author: Oncology Department, First Affiliated Hospital of Hunan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Wang Lihuai
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