Psychological effects on health
Psychology refers to feeling, perception, memory, thinking, emotion, character and ability. It is the reflection of objective things in the brain. If the mental state affects health, you should go to the psychological consultation clinic with a scientific attitude and accept the help of a psychologist. Psychological problems are an important factor inducing sub-health problems. If not handled properly, it will develop into psychological disorder and mental illness.
People's health and diseases are not only influenced by the laws of natural biology, but also by the laws of psychology and sociology. A lot of information in modern scientific research shows that the physiological and biochemical changes of human body can certainly affect people's psychological activities. Similarly, changes in people's psychological activities can also affect the physiological and biochemical changes of the human body. For example, extreme worry, fear and anxiety can make people's hair turn white, which is the result of serious motivation conflict and extreme emotional tension. American scientists have done a scientific study to observe patients with gastric mucosal hernia after gastrostomy. The results showed that when they were in a happy mood, the secretion of gastric mucosa and vascular filling increased, and the movement of gastric wall also increased significantly. However, when the mood is sad, regretful and depressed, the gastric mucosa is pale, the gastric peristalsis slows down and the secretion is obviously reduced. The influence of psychological factors on people's physical and mental health is multifaceted and very complicated. Generally speaking, positive and good psychological factors can effectively promote people's physical and mental health; On the contrary, negative and unhealthy psychological factors will damage people's physical and mental health.
The influence of psychological factors on human aging
Chinese medicine believes that bad emotional stimulation will not only affect human health, but also easily lead to human aging. Too much emotion can lead to disorder of qi and blood in viscera. Among them, anger hurts the liver and stagnation of qi, likes hurting the spleen and stagnation of qi, grieves the lungs and stagnation of qi, and fears hurting the kidney and stagnation of qi. If it is not cured for a long time, the viscera will stagnate and the qi and blood will gradually decline, which will inevitably lead to mental aging. Physicians in past dynasties have discussed a lot about nourishing nature and prolonging life. For example, the Book of Scripture says, "If you are exhausted, you can't end your life." In other words, under certain conditions, excessive emotional changes will cause dysfunction of various systems of the human body, and if it continues, it will accelerate human aging.
Corresponding measures
If people want to live a long life, they should pay attention to the self-regulation of spirit and emotion, keep open-minded, optimistic and happy, get rid of other thoughts, prevent excessive emotional fluctuation, keep the spirit inside, fill up the qi and blood, and reconcile the viscera. If so, it will be old and enduring.
Behavior and health
Behavior generally refers to all external activities of people, such as physical activities, movements, movements, reactions and actions. Good behavior habits should be cultivated from an early age. Many people who commit crimes in adulthood, most of them have contracted bad habits since childhood. Good behavior habits can not only promote personal physical and mental health, but also purify the whole social atmosphere and behavior norms.
Good behavior habits are conducive to promoting people's physical and mental health; Bad behavior habits will seriously destroy people's body and mind, such as bad eating habits, bad behavior, bad hobbies, drug abuse, alcoholism, gambling and so on.
Healthy behavior
Behaviors conducive to health mainly include: social support for individuals; Targeted campaigns; A wide range of hobbies; In a good mood; Regularization of life; Pay attention to self-care; Love cleanliness, pay attention to hygiene, and often take a bath; Participate in various disease screening activities, etc. Other healthy behaviors are: three meals a day are qualitative and quantitative; Appropriate sports activities more than three times a week; Ensure 7-8 hours of sleep every day; Do not smoke, drink less; Maintain a normal weight. Their inner health is manifested as: happy mood and satisfied mood; Willing to study, work and live; Willing to communicate, harmonious interpersonal relationship; Honest personality and consistent behavior inside and outside; Correct view of self-knowledge; Be good at adapting to changes in the external environment.
Behavior harmful to health
Behaviors harmful to health mainly include: smoking, taking drugs and drinking; Eating too much, being overweight, and unreasonable diet and nutrition; Less exercise; Mental stress and anxiety; Drug dependence and drug abuse; Illegal operation and illegal driving; Theft, murder, gambling; Superstition in ghosts and gods and disbelief in medicine; Adverse reaction to social pressure; Eat high-calorie and high-salt food; Life that destroys the biological rhythm of the body, etc
Stress and health
The psychological pressure brought by social development is called social psychological pressure. If the negative influence of stress on psychology cannot be handled correctly, stress will cause sub-health problems. Face the pressure correctly and properly handle the influence of pressure on psychology. Sometimes, pressure can be transformed into a driving force for progress and development.
"Only death can completely get rid of psychological pressure." Psychologists say so. No matter how smooth life is, there will always be moments of tension and pressure, especially those with successful careers. Misunderstanding, dispute and competition may increase the psychological burden. Only by decompression in time can we keep a good mood. In the past, people have always advocated the view that the best way to relieve stress is to put aside the upset things and not think about them. In order to "burn" excess adrenal hormones, you might as well exercise more: running, taking care of the garden, changing indoor furnishings and so on. Of course, all these are beneficial, but they can't fundamentally solve the problem. After in-depth research, experts have come to the conclusion that it is impossible to get rid of stress quickly through their own emotional adjustment. This is a long-term and gradual process, which requires a lot of conscious psychological adjustment. Causes of pressure formation
The formation of pressure is mainly due to the following aspects.
(1) With the high development of society, people's pace of life is bound to accelerate, and they need to deal with it nervously, quickly and efficiently, thus causing psychological pressure.
(2) The rapid development of science and technology requires the acceleration of knowledge updating, which forces people to constantly receive new education and learn new knowledge, thus causing psychological pressure.
(3) Intensified competition, striving for higher achievements, eager for career success, in order to surpass others, defeat each other and save themselves, thus causing psychological pressure.
(4) Urbanization, industrialization, high concentration of population, noisy environment, residence and traffic congestion are all serious stressors, causing psychological stress.
(5) With the development of society, the factors affecting interpersonal relationships have greatly increased, which has changed and complicated interpersonal relationships. How to adapt to the changed interpersonal relationship is also a kind of psychological pressure. Under the influence of the above social pressure and social psychological pressure, various psychology and behaviors harmful to people's physical and mental health have been formed.
Corresponding measures
Experts pointed out that in the face of psychological problems, the core content of psychological adjustment is to be kind to pressure, because the ultimate expression of psychological pressure is pressure. To be kind to stress, people should at least do the following things in life: (1) Admit the objectivity of stress. All the best, smooth sailing can make us feel the beauty of life; However, pressure exists objectively in a person's life, and it is impossible to live without pressure and adversity. Only by acknowledging the objective inevitability of the existence of pressure can we be psychologically prepared for resisting pressure. (2) Improve the compression (compression) ability. First of all, we should consciously cultivate ourselves to have a good personality, treat things with tolerance and let go. Maintain emotional stability, so that when stress comes, the stress response will not fluctuate greatly. Secondly, we must have a firm will, be open-minded and open-minded, and never get stuck in anything; Furthermore, we should constantly understand the objective laws of nature and human beings, and strive to understand these laws, realizing that laws cannot be changed, but people's understanding and attitude can be changed. As long as we adapt to the law and grasp the law, we can turn pressure into motivation and move from adversity to success without being overwhelmed by pressure. Finally, stress should be good at dealing with interpersonal relationships. In today's society, people are faced with many events such as employment, further education, housing, medical care and interest distribution. The greater the income gap, the more intense the interpersonal relationship will be in the evolution of these events. Harmonious interpersonal relationship depends on people's healthy and peaceful mentality and skills and effective interpersonal skills. The former needs character cultivation and understanding, while the latter can be obtained from elders, books and social schools.
Emotion and health
Emotion is the external emotional response of people's internal psychological state. Emotion = internal psychological state+external physiological reaction People should be good at controlling their emotions, because bad emotions will make people feel bored and depressed, hinder work and study, and even affect their health. A positive and happy mood helps to give full play to people's subjective initiative, improve interpersonal relationships, improve work efficiency and promote health.
Emotion is manifested in people's external actions and internal psychology. For example, when you are depressed, you will show a state of inner depression, because your muscles are slack, your eyes are depressed, you are depressed, you struggle and you are depressed. If you are angry, your muscles are tense, your eyes are glaring, your teeth are gnashing, your hands are clenched, and you are restless, showing a state of irritability. Physiologically, the muscles, blood vessels, internal organs and endocrine glands of the human body change with the fluctuation of emotions. It is generally believed that emotions often play a decisive role in people's adaptation to the internal and external environment. Emotion can be divided into three categories: passion, emotion and pressure because of its intensity, speed and duration.
What is passion?
Passion is a strong, explosive and short-lived emotional state. Such as anger, panic, ecstasy, sadness, despair, etc. It has the characteristics of rapidity and irrepressibility. It broke out suddenly like a storm, but its duration was relatively short. Passion often occurs after strong stimulation or sudden changes, such as major events and violent conflicts. Unexpected satisfaction
Or disaster and so on.
What is mentality?
Mood, sometimes called mood, is a relatively weak, relaxed and lasting emotional state, such as melancholy and cheerful. Emotion is not a concrete experience of something, but an undirected diffusion experience, which can affect people's words and deeds and emotions for a long time. When a person is in a certain state of mind, he often looks at everything in the same emotional state. When you are in a good mood, you will have a happy mood for many things, while when you are troubled, you will have an unpleasant mood for many things.
Causes of emotional changes
There are many reasons for emotional changes, such as major events in personal life, success or failure of work, success or failure of career, harmony of interpersonal relationship, physical health, changes in natural environment (such as seasonal solar terms) and so on. These will have different degrees of influence on emotions. In addition, memories of the past and unintentional fantasies will also lead to the reappearance of related moods. Mood has a great influence on a person's life. A positive and happy mood can improve work efficiency and help mobilize people's enthusiasm; A bad mood makes people bored and depressed, hinders work and study, and even affects their health.
Influence of Emotion on Health
Happy and calm emotions can make people's brain and the whole nervous system in a good state of activity, maintain the normal functions of various organs and tissues in the human body, and coordinate their psychological activities. A positive attitude is conducive to people's creativity and enthusiasm, making people full of vitality, bravely overcoming difficulties and improving the efficiency of activities. A happy and stable mood can also enhance people's resistance to diseases and their rehabilitation ability. The scientist Pologoff once pointed out: "On the battlefield, the wounds of the winners heal better and faster than those of the losers." Pavlov once pointed out: "Positive, cheerful, strong will and optimistic mood can overcome diseases and make people stronger and live longer." A large number of clinical practices show that positive and happy emotions have obvious effects on enhancing immunity and rehabilitation.
Physiological reaction caused by emotion
As a psychological phenomenon, emotion, whether accompanied by positive, positive, high or negative, negative or low experience process, will cause physiological changes of human body to varying degrees.
respiratory system
Breathe faster or slower, shallower or deeper. When you are ecstatic or sad, you will have a breathing spasm; Breathing will be interrupted when you are suddenly frightened.
circulatory system
The heartbeat speeds up, strengthens or weakens, slows down; Coronary artery relaxation or contraction; Blood pressure, blood sugar and chemical composition of blood also change accordingly, such as rapid heartbeat, high blood pressure and high blood sugar in anger.
digestive system
The activity of digestive gland, gastrointestinal peristalsis and saliva secretion have all changed. Happy words will promote the secretion of gastric juice and saliva, strengthen gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase appetite.
Lacrimal gland, sweat gland and endocrine gland
For example, the secretion of adrenaline, insulin, adrenocortical hormone and antidiuretic hormone will increase or decrease with the change of mood. In addition, brain electrical activity, other biochemical systems and central nervous media will also change with the change of mood.
Harm of bad mood to health
Anxiety, anger, depression, worry and panic are all concrete manifestations of bad emotions, and people who have been in bad emotions for a long time are prone to various diseases. Both men and women have their own negative emotions. For example, men are often angry and irritable, while women are mostly anxious, depressed and afraid. People who have been shrouded in bad emotions for a long time are prone to mental illness and do great harm to various organs of the body.
Pavlov once pointed out: "All stubborn worries and anxieties are enough to open the door to disease." Traditional Chinese medicine also believes that excessive or persistent activities of seven emotions can be the cause of disease. The disharmony or partial victory of the seven emotions can directly damage the five zang-fu organs, cause disharmony among the five zang-fu organs and disorder of qi and blood, and thus form diseases. For example, Neijing pointed out that anger hurts the liver, likes to hurt the spleen, grieves the lungs and fears hurting the kidneys. "Anger is anger, joy is anger, sadness is anger, fear is anger, shock is anger, and thinking is anger." At the same time, emotional imbalance will also lead to weakness of healthy qi, poor disease resistance and susceptibility to exogenous pathogens. Health and emotion complement each other, and people's illness will also cause emotional changes.
Influence of anxiety on health
Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional reaction when a person anticipates some bad consequences or faces some threats. Expressed as anxiety, anxiety and fear. %D