Our worldview, feelings and emotions directly affect both lifestyle and health. Have you heard the phrase: “all diseases are from nerves”? This is what psychosomatics does, building logical chains and establishing causal relationships between diseases, pathologies of the body and the stress we experience.
Today we will take a closer look at 10 common negative emotions that systematically mow our health day by day, worsen the quality of life and take away years of youth and vitality.
10. Loneliness: the heart
Many people noticed that during loneliness and sadness, as if something is being compressed in the region of the heart. Thus, longing for a specific person, relatives, society in general manifests itself. However, a person can change his attitude to loneliness, because he is full-fledged as an independent person, and for productive activities he does not need other people at all. From loneliness one often wants to "howl like a wolf", because of which a painful vice squeezes our heart. The body also produces stress hormones (for example, cortisol), which wear out the central nervous system, cause depression and apathy, and affect sleep quality. These moments, in turn, lead to pressure surges, impaired blood flow, and an increased load on the heart muscle. It is believed that people who suffer from loneliness have an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, and coronary heart disease.
9. Anxiety: stomach and spleen
In a state of excitement, toxins are distributed in the body, to which the digestive system reacts. As a result, we often notice the physical symptoms of our anxiety - twirls the stomach, gets nauseous, begins acute diarrhea, etc. Do not forget that excitement affects the quality of sleep, which means that all internal organs, including the spleen and gastrointestinal tract, suffer. In case of anxiety, many people begin to seize nervousness with food, so in the future the stomach gets used to react to stressful moments with the production of hydrochloric acid. If you do not immediately organize a snack (and in a state of excitement, people often refuse to eat), then the gastric juice will begin to corrode the mucous membrane, causing colitis, heartburn, gastritis and other unpleasant symptoms.
8. Irritability and hatred: liver and heart
Such vivid emotions are often reflected in health comprehensively: blood pressure and heart rate fluctuate, which leads to an increased load on the muscle, the nervous system and the psyche, and immunity suffer. As a result, we feel pain in the sternum, experience hypertensive conditions, and note arrhythmia and tachycardia. With severe irritation and negativity, the body produces dense molecules with toxins, which are immediately filtered by the liver, damaging its tissues.
7. Fear: adrenal glands and kidneys
A feeling of intense panic and fear destabilizes the work of the kidneys and adrenal glands. In a dangerous situation, the body provides a protective reaction: stupor, reduced energy expenditure, slowed blood flow and respiratory rate. All these processes affect the internal organs and systems. The adrenal glands, for example, begin to actively produce stress hormones, working for wear and tear. The genitourinary system also comes in tone (many during a panic begins to want "a little"), so the kidneys work hard. Often, a strong fright provokes spasms and pain in the kidneys and adrenal glands, which can give to the lower back. One of the typical symptoms of kidney damage is a weakening of the sphincter of the bladder and urinary incontinence in a dangerous situation.
6. Anger: heart and liver
Anger often occurs in a person along with despair, misunderstanding of the situation, resentment, disappointment. Instead of understanding the conflict and learning the lessons he has been taught, a person spends valuable energy and health units, provoking quarrels, pouring discontent into the environment. Against the background of stress, the pulse and pressure change, the vessels narrow, which leads to arrhythmia, tachycardia, pain in the sternum. In often angry people, the risk of rupture of the walls of arteries and heart attack is increased. Also, with anger, the level of inflammatory cytokine molecules increases, which are filtered by the liver, affecting its health not in the best way.
5. Stress: heart and brain
Depression, chronic stress and dissatisfaction with our lives wear out our nervous system, the crown of which is the brain. As a result, the risk of hemorrhage and stroke increases, concentration and performance decrease, memory and coordination deteriorate. Stress provokes jumps in pressure and heart rate, which leads to diseases of the heart and blood vessels. There is also a direct relationship between stress factors and a person’s desire to drink alcohol, smoke, take toxic drugs, overeat, etc. All these points negatively affect blood vessels, and, therefore, worsen the work of the brain and heart.
4. Sorrow or grief: lungs
Unhappy people get sick more often, experience discomfort in the sternum, as a result of which their lungs are compressed and their breathing is disturbed. Did you feel it became harder to breathe when a strong resentment or grief overtook you? If you constantly live in this condition, then the bronchi and lungs get used to narrow, which gives painful cramps, can increase the risk of asthma and other diseases of the bronchi. If you are really sad - better cry or tell us about your emotions, which will allow you to get rid of the “stone” on the heart and breathe deeply.
3. Jealousy and envy: brain, gall bladder and liver
The emotions associated with our ego affect all internal organs at once. As a rule, at the moment of envy or jealousy, a person is concentrated on his own feelings and feelings, as a result of which his thinking worsens and his ability to analyze is impaired, that is, the brain simply “dulls”. Emotions of jealousy also load the liver, which is forced to filter the metabolites of stress hormones (norepinephrine and adrenaline) from the blood. Against the background of strong emotions, blood flow can be disturbed, which leads to stagnant processes in the liver and gall bladder.
2. Shock: kidneys and heart
Strong surprise, shock or stupor literally stun a person, causing him a range of a wide variety of emotions. Against this background, the body releases a large number of stress hormones (cortisol, adrenaline) into the blood, which immediately settle on the kidneys and affect the genitourinary system. Shock emotion, of course, leads to spasm of blood vessels, against the background of which blood pressure and pulse are constantly changing. Strong surprise often provokes a person with a pre-infarction condition, which must be remembered for hypertensive patients and other patients at risk. If as a result of the shock experienced pains appeared in the side or sternum, then try to visit a nephrologist and cardiologist as soon as possible.
1. Anxiety: stomach, spleen, pancreas
Anxiety, as an increased feeling of anxiety and insecurity in a situation, destructively affects many internal organs. Often, against the background of this negative emotion, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract develop: gastritis or colitis worsens, internal bleeding opens, and the risk of ulcers increases. Anxiety has a bad effect on blood flow, as a result of which the functioning of internal unprotected organs such as the spleen is disrupted. The endocrine system also suffers first of all, the secretory function of the pancreas is impaired, which can worsen the condition of diabetics and other patients.
Managing your feelings, negative feelings and shock conditions is the main task that will help to avoid the appearance of obvious physiological symptoms.