What is the relationship between mood, emotion and health?

Emotion and emotion is an important aspect of people's psychological life, which is accompanied by cognitive process, and its root is need and motivation. Satisfied needs will produce positive emotions and emotions, and vice versa. Both negative emotions and positive emotions can cause psychological tension, but not any psychological tension can cause illness. For example, people's high sense of responsibility for work and study is a tense psychological state. It is not only harmless to the body, but also enhances the body's disease resistance. Another example is an old man in Tokyo, Japan, 1965. After his wife died, he and his daughter lived alone. However, when the old man was not at home, the rogue gang lured his daughter away from home, and her whereabouts were unknown. The disaster left the old man penniless and never recovered. Only kind neighbors arranged three meals a day for the elderly. /kloc-in the winter of 0/972, neighbors saw him sitting alone in a cold room with his feet wrapped in rags. In his heart, there is a strong hatred for abandoning his daughter. Anger and hatred supported him and kept him alive tenaciously. The above situation is not uncommon. For a certain goal and belief, the body has been in a state of tension and the body is still very healthy. Once the task is completed, the problem is solved, and the body and mind are relaxed, you will get sick.

Negative emotions are human psychological activities to adapt to the environment, and are not necessarily pathogenic factors. For example, anger is always accompanied by the increase of adrenaline, adrenocortical hormone and antidiuretic hormone secretion, which leads to the increase of heart rate, blood pressure, shortness of breath, slow gastrointestinal peristalsis and increase of metabolic rate. All these reactions are aimed at mobilizing the potential strength of the whole body to cope with the encounter. Without this emotional reaction, people can't adapt to the ever-changing environment, and they can't achieve psychological and physical balance. So "furious" is not necessarily worth advocating. When people are sad, they will feel better after crying. Because people can suppress sounds, tears, expressions, movements, etc. But they can't control physiological activities, such as blood vessels and sweat glands. On the surface, negative emotions are controlled, but in fact, negative emotions will be transferred to the body, which is called "the time bomb in the body". Therefore, it would be disastrous to forcibly close the floodgates of feelings and prevent them from venting.

Emotions should be vented, but you should know how to vent. Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty in China, used poetry to vent his anger. Li Bai was angry at the situation that the traitors in the imperial court were proud and the talents were down and out at that time. His anger was a kind of anger that feared God. He wrote in his poem: "Oh, how can I solemnly bow and scrape to those people with high status and important positions, because they will never be seen with a sincere face!" "

But some people fly into a rage when they get angry. In fact, losing your temper can not only solve the problem, but also hurt your health. Psychologists believe that people who get angry easily will only get angry more and more easily, and excessive anger, whether it is venting or not, will increase the risk of illness. Angry people suffer from heart disease and death rate five times higher than those who are not so angry. In addition, the tragic death and sudden shock of relatives will lead to anxiety, headache and high blood pressure, which will lead to depression, severe neurosis, mental illness and physical illness, and even life-threatening.

Therefore, negative emotions are not harmful to health. Because everything is limited, if the negative emotional reaction is too strong and exceeds the function of self-regulation, it will also make people sick.

Negative emotions can cause diseases, while positive emotions can prevent and treat diseases, and 565,438+0% patients can be cured through self-function regulation.