The relationship between mental state and health

  Modern medicine believes that human is a unified whole of mind and body, with “mind” referring to the spirit and “body” referring to the physical body. Human health includes mental health and physical health, collectively referred to as mind-body health, with mental health being more important. The so-called “mind-body disease” refers to the mental (or psychological) abnormality that leads to the physical (or physical) disease. Emotion is an attitude, a reflection of whether one’s psychological needs are met, and emotion is the external expression of one’s inner feelings. Joy, anger, sadness and joy are subjective reflections of various stimuli in the surrounding environment in which a person lives, and such reflections cause a series of complex physiological changes in the human heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, body temperature, metabolism, etc. These changes can have an important impact on the human body.  Because all the physiological processes of the human body are subject to the regulation and influence of mental activity, this regulation and influence is not transferred by the will of the person. Positive good psychological state on the physiological processes to produce benign regulation and influence, so as to maintain normal life activities. Negative psychological state has adverse regulation and influence on physiological processes, such as indignation, fear of bad emotions can make the heart beat faster, increase blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, etc.; sad, sad psychological state can lead to poor digestion, immune function, various organs and systems dysfunction, there are many clinical examples of organic diseases caused by psychological factors.  For example, during the Second World War, the German army raided the Soviet Union and surrounded Leningrad, which made the locals worried, anxious and panicked, resulting in a large number of hypertensive patients in just ten days. These patients were not caused by traditional pathogenic factors (high blood fat, excessive salt, etc.), but by the high level of mental stress caused by the horrors of war. The physiological dysfunction and disorder caused by negative psychological state, the information transmitted to the cerebral cortex is also negative and bad, it will aggravate the negative psychological state, forming a vicious circle, leading to the occurrence of disease.  Wuhan East-West Lake farm cadre XXX is a resident who moved to Wuhan from Henan Province, and he was afraid because Henan is a high incidence area of esophageal cancer. One day the disease finally came to him, and after he felt difficulty in swallowing he went to the hospital for examination, and a few days later he saw the examination result of esophageal cancer and lost his color violently, like a death sentence. After he went home, he was bedridden and did not eat or sleep. A few days later, he ate 8 dumplings under the persuasion of his family, indicating that there was no difficulty in eating at that time. Medically, it is believed that it takes about 1 year for a patient with esophageal cancer to die from swallowing difficulty to starvation, and it may be extended after treatment. However, this patient never ate again after eating the dumplings. On the 7th day, his family sent him to hospital and he was kept alive by glucose infusion. The patient was extremely panic-stricken, did not eat or sleep, and finally died on the 10th day after suddenly vomiting a lot of blood and failing to be treated. Theoretically, according to the patient’s condition, it would take at least several months from the diagnosis of esophageal cancer to death. However, the patient died in less than 10 days from diagnosis. The cause of death was not due to esophageal cancer, but rather due to gastrointestinal hemorrhage caused by high mental stress. This shows how strong and serious the effects of mental effects can be on a person.  At a soccer game in Los Angeles, six spectators fell ill with food poisoning, and when the doctor on the scene investigated, he found that the patients had been drinking drinks prepared by a dosing machine under the bleachers. The doctor then announced to the audience through the stadium loudspeaker that there was something wrong with the drink under the stands and that someone had already had food poisoning from drinking it. As soon as the doctor said this, a crowd of people vomited and fainted in the stands, and hundreds of them were immediately taken to the hospital. However, the drink was soon found to be free of disease-causing substances. When the staff told everyone about the result, the audience who felt sick and fainted disappeared and the stadium returned to normal. This is a typical example of psychological factors causing illness.  There is a 30-year-old male, married couples often separated, every time they meet both sexual desire and sexual excitement are very high, the female requires the male erection has a certain hardness and last for a certain period of time before reaching orgasm and sexual satisfaction, but because the male party is too excited, sexual desire and sexual activity once stimulated can not control themselves, in the female party has not been satisfied, it has been weak. Every time the woman is inevitably blamed and dissatisfied, I also feel guilty sorry for their wives, when the same room are doing their best to meet the wife’s requirements, but always can not be as desired. This caused serious psychological pressure, so much so that finally afraid to meet with his wife, erectile function also from the beginning of the duration of insufficient to erectile insecurity, and later completely unable to erect. He had to go to the hospital for help, and after psychological counseling by the doctor, supplemented by the necessary medication, the patient’s sexual function recovered quickly. This is a typical case of sexual dysfunction caused by psychological factors. It can be seen that a normal penile erection requires not only a sound body but also a healthy psychological state. The poor psychological state leads to the dysfunction of the higher nerve activity, which in turn causes the occurrence of various diseases and the impact on the erectile function of the penis, the lighter the erection is not firm, the heavier can completely lose erectile function. Human sexual behavior and sexual function is a combination of behavioral, erotic, psychological, environmental and other factors. Human sexual function and sexual behavior of this series of complex physiological activities need to rely on mental, neurological, endocrine, blood circulation system, urinary system and other intact functions to complete and maintain this normal process can be affected by disease, physical, environmental and other factors, these effects can cause a temporary decline or loss of sexual function, but also can cause long-term sexual insufficiency. For example: excessive fatigue of the body or injury, pain caused by disease, mental tension, extreme sadness, excessive smoking and drinking, taking certain drugs can temporarily affect the normal process of sexual function. However, once these factors are lifted, sexual function will naturally return to normal.  During the ten years of turmoil in China, a large number of old cadres and intellectuals were persecuted, the mind and body were extremely traumatized, and as a result, the incidence of hypertension, coronary heart disease, ulcer disease, tumors and other diseases in these people increased significantly. Numerous facts have proved that mental stimulation can make a disease-free body sick and a diseased body sicker. On the contrary, if you maintain a healthy spiritual and psychological state, optimism and cheerfulness, can promote the recovery of disease.  In the literature, there are many reports on the natural regression of malignant tumors without treatment, Bloom and Show reported that 3 out of 1139 kidney cancer patients and 4 out of 571 kidney cancer patients were found to have natural regression of tumors, and the natural regression rates of tumors were 0.26% and 0.7% respectively. The patient survived for more than 5 years without any treatment. In addition to the strong immune function and the ability to fight and eliminate malignant tumor, the most important thing is that these patients have good psychological quality and upward mental state. Good psychological quality and mental state is a good remedy to promote disease recovery. Mental stimulation and abnormal mental state are neither bacteria nor virus, but they are more harmful than bacteria and virus and often make people fall into the vicious circle of bad psychology uncontrollably. War, political turmoil, economic crisis, the fast pace of modern social life, family discord, interpersonal tension, competitive failure, environmental pollution, noise, etc. can cause vicious mental stimulation. Unemployment, loss of love, disability, retirement, title assessment and lagging behind can make people sad and cause mental trauma, and these psychological stimuli increase the prevalence of psychosomatic diseases. Therefore, in order to long-term interests, in order to physical health, everyone needs to have a healthy mental state, to be able to cope with various situations and events, to avoid being trapped in the well of self-sorrow. This is not only good for the maintenance of sexual function, but more importantly, for the health of the body.  There are two kinds of loss of the natural environment on the human body: the bright consumption and the dark consumption. The bright consumption is the physical consumption of the body, is the consumption of material; dark consumption is excessive thought caused by the psychological and spiritual consumption, the dark consumption of people more serious harm than the bright consumption. Many chronic diseases do not affect human health too much, but the resulting psychological burden and anxiety (dark consumption) are much more damaging than the chronic diseases themselves. Therefore, regardless of whether or not you suffer from various chronic diseases, it is very important to minimize the damage caused by dark consumption to maintain a healthy state and to promote recovery from illness.