Chapter 24 Health Problems May Be Caused by Worry

Worry can sicken and kill, even the strongest of people.Dr. Karel, the Nobel Prize winner in medicine, once said: "People who don't fight worry often die young." In fact, this sentence is applicable to anyone.Worry is like a constant dripping drop of water, tick...tick...tick accompanied by endless worries, which can make people insane and even suicidal. A few years ago, I vacationed with Dr. Gerber, the medical director of the Santa Fe Railroad, driving through Texas and New Mexico.His official title should be Chief Physician of the Colorado and Santa Fe Hospital Association in the Bay Area.When we talked about the harm of worry, he said: "If you can get rid of fear and worry, 70% of people will not need to go to the hospital. I am not saying that people's diseases are imaginary. Their diseases are as real as toothaches. Even a thousand times worse than that. I mean a lot of diseases come from worry, like those peptic diseases, stomach ulcers, irregular heartbeats, insomnia, headaches, even some kind of paralysis. Fear creates worry, worry creates tension, Affects the nervous system of the stomach, alters the secretion of gastric juices, and causes gastric ulcers."

Dr. Montag made a similar statement in his book Stomach Disorders Caused by Stress.He said: "Food itself does not cause gastric ulcers, what causes gastric ulcers is the things that torment your mind." A doctor named Avery also said: "Ulcers rise and fall according to emotional pressure." Avery The reason why the doctor thinks so is because he has conducted research on 15,000 gastric disease patients in his own clinic.He found that 4/5 of the 15,000 stomach disease patients had no real cause, and fear, worry, hatred, excessive selfishness, and poor adjustment were the biggest causes of stomach disease and ulcers.Gastric ulcers can be fatal. According to Life Magazine, gastric ulcers rank as the tenth leading cause of death.

Haibin, a doctor at the clinic where Yavery's doctor works, read a report at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association. In the report, he said that he studied 200 business executives with an average age of 44.3 years and found that about 1/3 of them Suffering from the three ailments of tension—heart disease, peptic ulcers, and high blood pressure.It is hard to imagine that these people suffered from this disease before they lived to the age of 45, and the price paid for their work was too great.What's even more sad is that they haven't been able to succeed because of it.Even if successful, can you imagine a man who trades off a stomach ulcer or a heart attack for his accomplishments as a real success?What is the use of winning the whole world if one loses his health?Even if he owns the whole world, he can only sleep in one bed and eat three meals a day.

Some people say that more than half of the patients lying on the beds are nervous.In other words, the problems of these patients are not pathological, but caused by emotions such as frustration, anxiety, worry, fear, and despair.So Plato said: "The biggest mistake doctors make is that they only treat the head for headaches and the feet for foot pains, and never try to heal the patient's psychology. In fact, people's body and mind are one, how can they be separated?" Fortunately, With the development of medicine, people gradually recognized this truth.In the United States, psychotherapy has become a new kind of medicine, and many doctors can take both physical and mental aspects into account when treating patients.The advancement of medicine has effectively controlled diseases such as smallpox, malaria, and yellow fever, which have deprived tens of millions of lives. However, what the best doctors are unable to solve is not caused by bacteria, but by worry, fear, hatred, frustration and A disease of despair.In fact, the mortality rate of these diseases caused by emotional distress is rising rapidly.During the Second World War, when recruiting recruits in the United States, 1/6 of the young people could not become a qualified soldier because of psychological factors.

Why do people lose their minds?No one knows all the reasons, but fear and anxiety can play a significant role.Anxiety makes people unable to adjust themselves in the real world, and can only gradually retreat into his own imaginary world. In his small world, he no longer worries. I always have on my desk a book by Dr. Podsky called Stop Worrying and Heal, which is one of my favorite books.The book lists some of the effects of worry on health, such as: the impact of worry on the heart, the increase in blood pressure due to worry, worry may cause a cold, worry causes loss of appetite... Another great book on worry, The Enemy of Self by Dr. Manninger, does not teach you how to overcome worry, but reveals some scary truths about how we can , resistance and fear unconsciously destroy the body and mind.You can find this book in the library.

Worry can make the strongest of men sick.General Grant discovered this at the end of the American Civil War.The story goes like this: During Grant's nine-month siege of Richmond, Lee's disheveled and starving troops were defeated.Once, several members of the corps lost their minds.The rest met and prayed in their tents—screaming, crying, seeing visions.Seeing that the war was coming to an end, Lee's men set fire to Richmond's cotton and tobacco warehouses, as well as the arsenal, before fleeing the city in the blazing night.Grant took advantage of the victory and pursued, pinching the Confederates from the left, right and rear, while the cavalry intercepted from the front, demolished the railway line, and captured the supply vehicles.

Grant, half-blind from a severe headache, was unable to keep up with the procession and stopped at a farmhouse. "I spent the night there," he wrote in his memoirs, "soaking my feet in cold water with mustard and putting mustard ointment on my wrists and the back of my neck, hoping that the second It will be back in the morning." Early the next morning, he really recovered.But it was not the mustard ointment that restored him, but a cavalryman who brought back General Lee's letter of surrender. "When the officer came to me, I still had a terrible headache, but as soon as I read the contents of the letter, I was fine."

Clearly, Grant's illness was due to worry, tension, and emotional reasons.Once he regained his emotional self-confidence and thought about his accomplishments and victories, he was fine. If I want to see the effect of worry, I don't need to look up a book or ask a doctor. I just look out of my study window and I can see in a street that a certain family has a nervous breakdown due to worry--and the husband of another family is killed by worry. cause diabetes.As soon as the stock price fell, the sugar level in his blood rose.If I want to remind myself how damaging worry can be, I don't even have to look out the window. The previous owner of the house I live in has gone to his grave with worry.

About worry, I once had a conversation with beautiful Hollywood actress Merle Oberon, Merle Oberon told me that she can say no to worry because she clearly realizes that worry will destroy the main asset of her golden years , that is, her flowery beauty. Merle Oberon told me that when she first entered the entertainment industry, she was full of worries and fears.Because she had no acquaintances in London, no producer to hire her, and the little money she had was running out.For a while, she lived on biscuits and water. Not only was she worried, she was hungry, but knowing that her only asset was her looks, and worrying could destroy it, she decided to stop worrying immediately. Because she can't afford it.

There is nothing more damaging to a woman's appearance than worry. Worry can make a woman wrinkle quickly and make her complexion ugly. Worry can destroy a person's physiological balance and make a woman's hair turn white and fall out. Psychologist William James said: "God may forgive our sins, but our nervous system cannot." It's an astonishing and incredible fact that more Americans commit suicide each year than the top five causes of death, and the reason is "worry."When I was a country boy in Missouri, I was once frightened to death when I heard a description of hellfire in church.But the pastor did not mention the fear and anxiety caused by purgatory, but it is the physical and mental price that has to be paid now.If you are a person who worries a lot, you may one day get angina, which is an extremely painful condition.do you love lifeDo you want to live a long and healthy life?There is a way to do it.Finally, I would like to borrow another sentence from Dr. Rael: "In the tense modern urban life, only those who can maintain inner peace can avoid mental breakdown."