Cancer character says What is cancer character? In the interview, the reporter learned that “cancer character” this is still very fresh for the people, in the field of medicine and psychology has long been not new things. Modern mental hygiene was first proposed in the 1980s, the kind of emotional suppression of the depressed character, manifested in fear of competition, submissive, angry to the stomach, love to sulk people suffering from cancer is much higher than other personality types. Psychological trauma after encountering a major change can greatly increase the risk of cancer in people with this personality. Zhengzhou Foster Consulting national-level psychological counselor Peng Yi told reporters that the main characteristics of cancer personality can be described as three points: First, it is difficult interpersonal relationships, something to love to stifle in the heart, repress themselves, closed themselves, do not seek help, the feeling is often lonely and not easy to get close to; the second is the self-demanding people, which is the so-called perfectionist, they are very harsh on themselves and others, so often on things and others, so they are very demanding, so often on things and others, so that they are very demanding. They are very harsh on themselves and others, so they are often dissatisfied with things and people; the third is that people with poor resistance to frustration, easy to absorb negative emotions, manifested as a long pout and short sighs and so on. Cancer character is a cancer culprit? So, character is not really affect the chances of cancer? Henan Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine breast chief physician Li Zhongyu to the reporter to provide several academic papers show that: bad character and psychological trauma has been ranked among the risk factors for cancer. However, it is not difficult to find research cases with the opposite view. Not long ago, Japan’s Tohoku University, outward-looking, neurotic, psychotic tendencies and lying four categories of personality of 30277 volunteers for up to seven years of follow-up, the results show that the character and the incidence of cancer and there is no obvious relationship. So, which of the two claims is accurate? Reporter survey found that Chinese medicine experts are inclined to support the “cancer personality”. Years of clinical experience found that 60% to 80% of cancer patients are introverted, usually less communication with family members, love to sulk and other traits. The hospital oncology deputy chief physician Ma Chunzheng also said, Chinese medicine, cancer is mainly due to liver discomfort, stagnation of blood stasis, toxicity and evil internal growth, over time into a block caused by. Therefore, this kind of easily repressed character on liver cancer, gallbladder cancer and breast cancer, because these organs are part of the “liver meridian”. However, most Western medical experts are skeptical of the theory of “personality causing cancer”, believing that it lacks theoretical basis. In terms of liver cancer, which is most affected by personality as mentioned in Chinese medicine, Mr. Han Feng, deputy chief physician of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery department of Henan Cancer Hospital, said that from his clinical experience, there is no obvious connection between which kind of personality a person belongs to and whether or not he/she gets cancer. Cancer patients also have no personality commonalities. “Western medicine does not exclude the views of Chinese medicine, and now the psychosocial medicine model of Western medicine also believes that mental factors are greatly related to a person’s physical and mental health, and if a person is often irritable and impulsive, then it is certainly not good for his health. But to simply say which personality has a greater chance of developing cancer, I think it’s unscientific.” Although he has encountered cases of “you see him well, did not realize that since the death of his mother suddenly developed cancer,” Li Yin still believes that there is no basis to fully prove that there is a direct link between the two. Of course, there are Western medical experts believe that there is a link between the two. Henan Provincial Cancer Hospital, vice president of Hua Yawei, from clinical experience, concluded that the patients who come to the general surgery department, cancer patients do have a certain personality in common, generally more introverted and depressed patients, while the proportion of people with a cheerful personality is relatively small. “It should be said that there is a relationship between personality and cancer.” The difference between the theoretical systems of Chinese and Western medicine has caused differences among experts, but none of them denies that it is not uncommon to see cases of cancer in the clinic like this one, which occurs after a depressive personality or emotional trauma. Cancer emotion said Compared with the character, emotion and cancer associated with more direct disagree with the attitude of the experts, on the bad mood, bad mental state on the health of the impact is quite recognized. Li Yin said: “It can only be said that cancer patients in the character of the performance, in the mental state of the commonality, which is irritability, narrow-mindedness, irritability and other negative emotions. In the general view of people, cancer is an ‘incurable disease’ and negativity is inevitable, but this is only the mental state we see, and we cannot infer from this what kind of character the patient is. A cheerful person can also become depressed once he suffers from cancer, but this is not his character, but only a state of mind.” Chinese medicine experts are positive about this view. Li Zhongyu gave the reporter the paper said: different control groups around the research data show that the odds of cancer in bad mood is two times higher than the ordinary situation ~ 4 times. He also mentioned that repressed personality can easily lead to depression “when something can’t be thought of”, that is, psychologists say the character of the poor degree of stress tolerance, leading to long-term low mood and thus cancer. The two cases provided are impressive: a rural woman in her 50s lived a peaceful life, but her only son died in a traffic accident, and since then she was plunged into grief, and has been depressed, and half a year later, she found out that she had breast cancer. A company’s finance section chief, a successful career, family harmony, and then his son was killed in a car accident, he has been devastated, always clogged up in his heart, thinking of his son on the sadness of tears, was soon found to be suffering from lung cancer. In the interview, Ma Chunzheng also provided a professional paper: psychological data show that 70% of the tumor patients before the onset of a long period of time have depressed mood. “Cancer personality” refers more to emotional stagnation, not extroversion or introversion. Her point of view is that “emotions cause disease”, some people seem to be very cheerful on the outside, but inwardly too much emphasis on other people’s views of the self-requirement is too high, self-evaluation is too low; some people, although introverted, but can be “self-indulgent”, no bad emotions stagnant, such an introverted personality is not detrimental to health. The introverted character does not have a negative impact on health. From this point of view, the expert’s opinion is easy to reach a consensus, that is: the incidence of cancer is multi-faceted factors, in addition to genetics, environment, lifestyle and dietary structure, etc. have a more direct link, the character is not an important factor, and is not the dominant factor, but the “emotional garbage” will be on the development of cancer has a certain role in contributing to. Emotions can cure cancer In addition to the view that “emotional garbage” needs to be cleaned up in time, clinical oncologists recognize and emphasize another point of view is that bad character and emotions may not directly cause cancer, but maintaining a good state of mind can cure cancer for cancer patients. In other words, the significance of character for cancer treatment is greater than the significance of prevention. Yu Junli said: “Why is there ‘a lot of cancer is scared to death’? It is that, in a way, the psychological effect is even decisive for treatment.” There is such a case. A forty-year-old female worker, 10 years ago, physical examination found cancer, and has been in the middle stage, but she belongs to a big personality, active treatment, life almost no change, still as happy as before. More than ten years have passed, and now her annual physical examination is normal, and the cancer cells have not been found again. Such cases can be heard a lot in the “Anti-Cancer Club”, Hua Yawei told the reporter that some people can still walk when they enter the hospital, and after hearing that they have cancer, they are assisted by their family members to go out. That’s why we have to do a lot of publicity in this area, the publication of anti-cancer star stories, the organization of anti-cancer clubs, etc., so that patients encourage each other to eliminate negative emotions. It is because, in the treatment, psychological and emotional directly affect the body’s immunity, thus affecting the treatment effect. Do you have a cancerous personality Do the following questions (designed by British psychologist Prof. Lawrence Latham) to see if you have a cancerous personality: 1. When you are intensely angry, can you express it? 2.Do you always try to do things as well as possible no matter what happened, without even complaining? 3.Do you consider yourself a lovely person? 4. Do you often feel worthless? Do you often feel lonely and rejected? 5. Are you doing what you want to do? Are you satisfied with your social relationships? Are you optimistic that you will always fulfill your potential? 6. If someone told you that you had only six months to live, would you carry on with what you were doing? 7. If someone told you that your illness was terminal, would you feel a sense of relief? Ideal answers are: 1. yes; 2. no; 3. yes; 4. no; 5. yes; 6. yes; 7. no. If your answer has more than 3 with the above answer is opposite, it means that you are a person with cancer character. Psychologists remind that this “cancer personality” test has a certain role in reminding, but not scientific enough. Although cancer personality includes several aspects of emotional expression, self-knowledge, and interpersonal relationships, it is not possible to judge whether you have a cancer personality from these few simple questions. Therefore, experts remind that you don’t need to label yourself as a “cancer personality” based on a few questions, which is only a test form for assessing mental health. Through this scale, see if you have these problems in emotional expression, self-knowledge, emotional stress, and often examine yourself to keep your emotions in an optimistic and positive direction. How to eliminate emotional garbage? Peng Yi suggests: introverted people, the most important thing is to establish a social support system, that is, as the saying goes, there are two or three friends or family members who can let you talk to them; the pursuit of perfection, we must learn to appreciate themselves, tolerate others, lower the standards; easy to be negative, we should learn to gain and lose the conversion, is often said to be “a blessing in disguise, how do you know that it is not a blessing? “. She particularly mentioned that we should pay attention to the emotional “pressure cooker”, high pressure must learn to deflate, the simplest is to do deep breathing, in addition to the open space to yell a few times, you can also go out and travel.