Heart patients should quit “anxiety” and “restlessness”

  Usually see some older people, not only have high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases, temperament often becomes very strange, very different from the past. The elderly are not well enough to bring burdens to themselves and their families, but many of them have changed their personalities at this time, which makes their families even more distressed.  According to a survey, the proportion of depressed patients after stroke is 30%-64%; 45% of myocardial infarction patients are depressed. In this regard, Li Jianru, a psychologist in charge of the clinical psychology department of Beijing An Ding Hospital affiliated with Capital Medical University, said that some patients with cardiovascular disease develop depression, anxiety and other psychological problems, and even develop mental illness, often in two special stages.  One is when they first realize that something is wrong with their bodies, and the other is during the treatment and recovery period. The reason why patients with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease are prone to psychological problems at these two stages is not because they possess special psychological traits, but because they realize that their social functioning has changed.  ”It turns out that when you are not sick, you can do anything without fear, and once you have a chronic disease, you can’t let go of anything.” They see that they can’t do this or that, and they worry about their health, so there is a huge gap in their hearts, which can easily lead to psychological turmoil, Cong said.  In contrast to patients with purely mental illnesses, people with cardiovascular disease accompanied by psychological problems should be made to follow the advice of cardiologists to eat, exercise, sleep and take medication scientifically. When the patient’s physical condition is improved through these adjustments, it will be of great benefit to solve the psychological problems.  If the patient’s depression lasts for more than two weeks and cannot work and live normally; or if the patient’s anxiety affects life and work and has lasted for about six months, etc., the family should take the patient to a psychiatrist. “For patients with chronic diseases such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases with co-occurring psychiatric diseases, the big medication principles are the same as for patients with simple psychiatric diseases.”  In fact, for patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, as long as they take medication in a timely manner according to the doctor’s prescription and adhere to a scientific lifestyle, such as quitting smoking and drinking, weight control, regular living, etc., not only can prevent the disease, but also reduce the extent of the disease, and it is entirely possible for the patient’s quality of life to return to the level before the disease, or even healthier than before.  Scientific diet is the basis for treating the disease, reasonable exercise is an important means of recovery, and a calm mind is an important guarantee for disease treatment. Therefore, patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should pay attention to stay away from anxiety and impatience.  It can be said that bad emotions are very unfavorable for people of any age. Once a person’s emotions are tense and excited, it will make the sympathetic nerves excited and catecholamines increase, resulting in a faster heartbeat, higher blood pressure, and a significant increase in myocardial oxygen consumption, aggravating the condition of patients with coronary heart disease and heart failure. More seriously, these changes can sometimes lead to lethal arrhythmias, causing cardiac arrest.  Great joy and anger are the most important thing to avoid. According to Chinese medicine, excessive happiness and sadness will lead to a series of symptoms of heart qi deficiency, such as palpitations, weakness, chest tightness and shortness of breath, and pulse knot generation. In severe cases, there will be cold sweating, unheated limbs, weak pulse and palpitations, chest tightness, chest pain and other symptoms of heart yang wanting to escape. Such changes are similar to coronary arrhythmia and cardiogenic shock.  On the contrary, anger leads to Qi reversal, and the flow of Qi is obstructed. Qi is the marshal of blood; if Qi moves, blood moves; if Qi stagnates, blood stasis occurs; Qi stagnation and blood stasis end in non-passage; if not, pain. Great anger leads to a series of reactions similar to coronary angina or acute myocardial infarction, etc. This shows that maintaining a healthy mental state is very important for everyone.  Finally, we would also like to remind you that when patients with cardiovascular disease have emotional abnormalities, they should not wait until the onset to go to the hospital, but should adhere to the medication under the guidance of the doctor to achieve early detection, early prevention, the combination of Chinese and Western, Chinese medicine prevention is the main focus. Bu Chang Heart Stabilizing Granules is a pure Chinese medicine preparation, with the function of benefiting Qi and nourishing Yin, fixing palpitations and restoring the pulse, activating blood circulation and resolving blood stasis, mainly treating palpitations and restlessness, shortness of breath and weakness, dizziness and palpitations, chest tightness and chest pain caused by Qi and Yin deficiency and blockage of the heart pulse, and applicable to all kinds of heart arrhythmias. It has also been found to regulate neurological disorders and has a preventive effect on anxiety, depression and insomnia caused by neurological dysfunction.