How negative emotions affect physical and mental health

Emotion will affect people's personality development, people's understanding and evaluation of themselves, and also affect people's cognitive thinking level, hindering normal thinking and learning. Emotion affects the body's immunity. Emotion can cure or cause disease. Emotion will change endocrine and nervous system functions and affect mental health. The following small series has compiled the details of negative emotions affecting physical and mental health for everyone, hoping to help everyone! 1, the influence of emotion on mental health mainly includes: ① Emotion will affect people's personality development. People who live in depression, melancholy or fear for a long time are unpopular because of their eccentric personality and poor interpersonal skills. ② Emotion will affect people's understanding and evaluation of themselves. When people are in negative emotions, they will lower their self-evaluation and make the attribution of "I always fail" and "I am incapable". ③ Emotion will affect people's cognitive thinking level and hinder normal thinking and learning. Nervousness, fear and irritability will hinder the speed of solving problems, and optimistic and calm emotions will help to think calmly. Anxiety and tension, if properly adjusted, will not only form a "learned helplessness", but also lead to a problem that can never be solved. 2. The main effects of emotions on health are as follows: ① Emotions affect the body's immunity. Modern medicine believes that good mood can make the body's physiological function in the best state, make the immune and disease-resistant systems play the greatest role and resist the invasion of diseases. Many medical scientists believe that the body itself is a good doctor, and 85% of diseases can be controlled by itself. Therefore, some psychologists call emotions "the baton of life" and "the thermometer of health". ② Emotion can cure diseases or cause diseases. Psychologists have found that when people are excited, their skin will be red and hot, and when people are nervous or angry, their skin will be pale and cold. If people's mood changes dramatically, it will also lead to skin allergies and even affect hair. At the same time, the correct emotions such as happiness and joy can also accelerate the healing of wounds and promote the healing of diseases. ③ Emotion can change endocrine and nervous system functions and affect mental health. Being busy and unhappy often leads to insomnia, hair loss and even neurasthenia. If you are subjected to a strong, sudden or lasting mental shock, it will cause mental disorders. Use an old saying to summarize the effect of emotions on physical and mental health: "Anger leads to qi stagnation, joy leads to qi stagnation, sadness leads to qi stagnation, fear leads to qi depression, shock leads to qi confusion, fatigue leads to qi consumption, and thinking leads to qi stagnation." Emotion has a great influence on health.