Now, we have some understanding of the meanings of health, physical health and mental health. So, what is the internal relationship between them?
In a word, physical health is the foundation and carrier of mental health, and mental health is the condition and guarantee of physical health. Man is an organism with coordinated activities of various physiological systems under the unified command of cerebral cortex. Physiological activities and psychological activities are interrelated, influenced and restricted. A positive and healthy mental state is beneficial to physical health; Negative and unhealthy mental state makes people prone to physical diseases. Similarly, abnormal physiological function can also lead to psychological changes. We are talking about the influence of psychology on physiology, so let's take a look at the relationship between them for the time being.
Research shows that many physiological diseases are closely related to psychological factors.
Coronary heart disease is closely related to type A behavior. American medical scientists Friedman and rosenman divide human behavior into type A and type B. Type A people are impatient, competitive, excitable, quick-moving, efficient, busy all day, and often feel that time is not enough. Type B people, on the other hand, are carefree and uncompetitive. The results show that the incidence of coronary heart disease in group A is significantly higher than that in group B, and it is easy to recur, and the mortality rate is much higher than that in group B.
Essential hypertension is mainly related to emotional state and personality characteristics. Long-term anxiety, tension, fear, anger, hostility and depression will all lead to hypertension, among which anxiety, anger and hostility are the most closely related to hypertension. As early as 1960s, Chinese scholars believed that most patients with hypertension were easily anxious, excited, impulsive, self-critical and rigid. At present, some western scholars believe that patients with essential hypertension have similar personality characteristics as patients with coronary heart disease, such as ambition, ambition, initiative, willingness to compete, and often feel pressure to achieve work results.
There are many reasons for peptic ulcer, including irritating food, irregular diet and genetic factors, but bad mood plays an important role. It is found that these patients are generally unsociable, always obedient, passive, obedient, dependent, lacking in creativity, emotionally unstable and paying too much attention to themselves.
Migraine is a serious chronic headache. The personality characteristics of such patients are generally sensitive, suspicious, opinionated, cautious and easily troubled, and they are used to suppressing anger, hostility or resentment in their hearts.
Clinical medical practice has found that the top three of the top ten causes of death of human beings have undergone tremendous changes unconsciously in the past 50 years.
Since the mid-1970s, the three diseases with the highest mortality rate are psychogenic diseases, namely cerebrovascular disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer, accounting for 22.56%, 2 1. 13% and 2 1. 1% respectively. The main reason is: psychology.
Among these three diseases, the incidence of cancer is still rising, which has become the enemy of human life. In the process of exploring the cause of cancer, people often find people with strong negative emotions, such as anxiety, anger, sadness and so on. However, if you suppress these negative emotions too much, so that you can't get reasonable relief, you will easily get cancer. It has been found that cancer has self-healing phenomenon. Cancer heals itself because the patient's immune function is greatly enhanced. The enhancement of immunity can make cancer cells stop growing and gradually be replaced by normal cells, or make cancer cells unable to adapt, thus turning cancer cells into normal cells. The enhancement of immunity is closely related to psychological factors. Patients with depression, through complex neurohumoral regulation mechanism, will significantly reduce their own immunity, thus promoting the deterioration of cancer; Optimistic people will improve their immunity in the same way, thus inhibiting the growth of cancer cells and making cancer heal itself. This may be why some people have a complete mental breakdown after learning that they have cancer, and they died a few days later, while others have the same disease, but they can laugh it off, not only live strong, but also continue to make contributions to mankind!
The ancients said: I like to be sad, I am sad about my liver, I think I will hurt my spleen, I am sad about my lungs, and I am afraid that I will hurt my kidneys. In other words, happiness, anger, sadness, joy, thinking, worry and fear are the most basic emotional experiences of human beings, but if they are too strong, they will all hurt the body.
According to statistics from the Oshner Clinic in New Orleans, 74% of the 500 patients with gastrointestinal diseases who were admitted to the hospital continuously were ill because of their bad mood.
According to the statistics of the outpatient department of Yale University School of Medicine, 76% of patients get sick because of emotional stress.
Some scholars of Harvard University in the United States spent 40 years following up 204 adults, and found that among 59 people who lived a comfortable spiritual life between the ages of 265,438+0 and 46, only 2 people got worse at the age of 53, of whom 65,438+0 died. During the same period, 48 people who could not enjoy a comfortable spiritual life all died before the age of 55.
In order to study the influence of psychological state on health, American physiologist Elma designed a very simple experiment: insert a glass test tube into a container filled with ice water, and then collect people's "soda water" in different emotional States. The results show that when people are calm, the exhaled gas is clear and transparent after being dissolved in water. When you are sad, there is white precipitation in the water; There is purple precipitation when you are angry. He injected the "angry water" exhaled by people when they were angry into the mouse, and the mouse died a few minutes later. From this, he analyzed that being angry for ten minutes will consume a lot of human energy, no less than participating in the 300-meter race. The physiological reaction of anger is very strong, and its secretion is more complicated and toxic than any emotion. So people who are always angry are hard to be healthy. Therefore, he warned: people should try not to get angry, and mothers should not breast-feed their children when they are angry or just angry, because the milk secreted by mothers is toxic at this time.
Now, let's think about it. Of all the occupations, which ones are most likely to get angry?
Teachers must be one of them.
Social psychology research shows that all people who are highly responsible for others have to bear a lot of inner conflicts and uneasiness. In addition to high-intensity mental work, teachers should also be highly responsible for the growth of society, parents and the younger generation. They are exposed to emotional activities every day and experience emotional tension and pain. For various reasons, teachers are under great pressure and often exhausted. And because they hate iron not to produce steel, they are often angry and helpless, which may be an important reason for their unhappy mood and premature aging!
Teachers must understand that we should work hard for the party and the people, which is the basic requirement of teachers' morality. However, a healthy body is the capital of the revolution. Once this capital is lost, no one can do anything, even our relatives can do nothing. Therefore, we must cherish ourselves, take good care of ourselves and make ourselves happy in order to live a long and healthy life.
If people want to live a long and healthy life, it is not enough to have money, eat well, dress well and live comfortably, nor is it enough to supplement nutrition, take medicine and exercise. Among many important factors that can affect health and longevity, the most important ones are psychological factors and lifestyle.
After a long-term study, Russian Manovsky gave us a health formula:
Molecular part is the three elements of health and longevity, among which emotional stability ranks first; Denominators are the three killers of health, among which laziness bears the brunt.
It is very important to make yourself healthy, happy, happy and live a long life, adjust your mentality in time, keep your mood stable, face your classmates happily and consciously safeguard your mental health.
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What is mental health?
Health is an extremely important content of human existence, which plays a decisive role in human development, social change, cultural renewal and lifestyle change. So, how can a person be healthy? From 65438 to 0948, the World Health Organization clearly stipulated that health not only means that there is no disease in the body, but also means paying attention to mental health. Only physical and mental health, physical fitness, is a complete health. It can be seen that mental health is an inseparable and important part of human health.
Mental health refers to a person's physical, psychological and social harmony, and its characteristics are as follows:
Normal intelligence
People's intelligence can be divided into three levels: supernormal, normal and low. Normal intelligence level is the most basic psychological condition for people to live, study, work and work.
Emotional stability and happiness
Emotional stability and happy mood are important signs of mental health, indicating that a person's central nervous system is in a relatively balanced state, which means the coordination of physical functions. If a person is often sad, depressed and moody, it is a sign of mental health.
Behavior coordination and unification
A mentally healthy person, his behavior is dominated by consciousness, his thought and behavior are unified and coordinated, and he has self-control ability. If a person's behavior and thoughts are contradictory, his attention is not focused, his thoughts are confused, his treatment is fragmented, and his work is chaotic, this is the performance of mental health.
Good relationship
People living in society should be good at getting along with others, helping others and establishing good interpersonal relationships. People's communication activities can reflect people's mental health. Normal and friendly communication between people is not only a necessary condition to maintain mental health, but also an important way to obtain mental health.
Good adaptability
People live in a complex and changeable world, and they will encounter various environments and changes in their lives. Therefore, a person should have good adaptability, no matter what changes in the real environment, he can adapt, which is also one of the signs of mental health.
The above are the main characteristics of mental health, but mental health is not an extraordinary state of superman, and a person's mental health may not be manifested in every aspect. As long as he can correctly understand himself, consciously control himself, correctly treat external influences, and maintain a balanced and coordinated mentality in life practice, he already has the basic characteristics of mental health.
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