The research on personality and disease can be traced back to the middle of last century. Experts have long suggested that people with certain diseases have similar personalities. How to avoid getting sick and nip in the bud according to our own personality is our goal.
Impatient and aggressive type A personality is prone to coronary heart disease.
After 20 years of observation and research, Friedman and rosenman found that the probability of coronary heart disease in people with type A personality is 1.7 ~ 4.5 times that of people with type B personality. Later, many medical studies showed that 85% of cardiovascular diseases were related to type A personality.
A B-type Personality that Can Be Cheerful —— Metropolitan Longevity
Friedman and rosenman discovered the type A personality which is easy to cause coronary heart disease, and classified the opposite of type A personality as type B personality. In fact, most people in life are in the middle position and tend to be type A or type B. Now the medical and psychological circles have summed up the characteristics of typical type B personality-easy to get along with, not excited, good social adaptability, easy to let go of things and not bitter.
Type C people who submit to humiliation-the risk of cancer is three times higher than the average person.
Type C personality was first put forward by German psychologists in 1980s. In his view, the main characteristics of type C behavior are: childhood depression, such as the loss of parents in childhood, lack of parental love; Behavioral characteristics are excessive cooperation, excessive patience, avoidance of contradictions, sulking and excessive anxiety.
The depression of type C people destroys the balance of internal environment, interferes with the function of immune monitoring system, and cannot remove abnormal mutant cells in time, which is very likely to cause cancer. So medical experts named this character with the first letter c of English Cancer. The risk of cancer in people with type C personality is three times higher than that in the general population.
Withdrawn and taciturn type D people are the most prone to heart disease.
People with type D personality are withdrawn, often taciturn and indifferent to others; Lack of self-confidence and insecurity; Lonely, withdrawn and unsociable; Emotional negativity, sadness, irritability.