Work is stressful, life is fast-paced, housework is piled up in mountains...
Anger has also become a very common emotion.
Have you ever felt like you were shaking when you were angry, and your chest was tight and you were "panicked"?
When angry, the body really bears too much.
1. Chest tightness
Chest tightness when angry may be transient myocardial ischemia.
The sympathetic nervous system is overexcited when angry, which promotes the secretion of catecholamines in large quantities.
This is a neurochemical, its large amount of secretion, will lead to increased blood pressure, increased heart rate, increased myocardial oxygen consumption, coronary artery microvascular circulation disorders, resulting in transient myocardial ischemia, making us feel chest tightness "panic".
After a brief period of discomfort has passed, cardiac function can quickly return to normal [1,2].
Occasionally, a flash of tingling may also occur, in the absence of a history of heart disease, there is no need to worry too much, and it is necessary to relax the discomfort to alleviate it.
2. Difficulty breathing, shaking all over the body
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When you are emotionally agitated, crying, or arguing, have you ever gasped for breath and your whole body trembled?
We breathe about 15 breaths per minute when we are emotionally stable, and the sympathetic excitement when we are angry stimulates us to breathe more than 30 times per minute.
Breathing too deeply and too quickly allows large amounts of carbon dioxide to be exhaled out of the body, resulting in hyperventilation syndrome, which causes dyspnea, numbness and even trembling of the hands, feet, lips, dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations, and even fainting [3].
In addition, anger may also:
Causing sympathetic excitement prompts the gastrointestinal vessels to contract, the peristalsis is weakened, and the secretion of gastric juice is weakened, so that we cannot eat. In the long run, it will also cause gastrointestinal disorders, stomach ulcers and other diseases.
Negative emotions such as anger are also predisposing factors for high blood pressure. The higher the level of mental stress in women, the higher the risk of developing hypertension [4,5].
Anger can also affect the endocrine system, leading to menstrual and breast problems.
1. Take a deep breath
Pull your mind back from the things that make you angry, focus on breathing, and slow down your breathing rate in the rhythm of "two seconds one exhale, two seconds one inhale".
At the same time, think of other happy, relaxed things, such as blue skies, white clouds, or your kittens.
2. Vent the "breath" in your chest
Choose chest expansion, yoga, stretching, running and other sports you like to vent.
Dopamine, the "pleasure factor" produced during exercise, can make the body and mind comfortable.
Talking: It is a good way to vent bad emotions, talk to trusted relatives and friends, and comb emotions in a written way.
3. Look at things that make you angry from a different perspective
When you realize you're angry, try asking yourself: Why am I angry?
In fact, many times, what makes us angry is not the event itself, but our view of the event.
American psychologist Ellis has proposed rational emotion therapy [6], the core of which is the emotional ABC theory.
A
Represents an evoked event
B
Represents a view of the event
C
Represents our emotions
Triggering event A is only the indirect cause of the emotion, and our understanding, perception, and belief in this event are the more direct causes of emotion C.
Here's a simple example:
ZhiMei is angry (Emotion C) because Brother Dian (Zhimei's boyfriend Tencent Medical Code) did not reply to the message (Incident A) in time.
This makes Zhimei feel that Brother Dian does not pay enough attention to Zhimei (Opinion B).
However, after friendly communication with Diange, I learned that Diange was too busy to reply to the message in time because he wrote popular science for everyone.
Zhimei realized that in fact, everyone has a very busy time, will not always stay in front of the mobile phone to reply to the message, so occasionally did not reply to the message, does not mean that it is not valued, and it is no longer angry.
Therefore, when we are angry, we can think about where the point of our anger is and why we are so angry.
Then look at these problems from another angle, and see what kind of way you originally looked at the problems that were unreasonable.
When you change the irrational way of cognition, you will change the anger that may have been generated.
After getting emotional, these phenomena should immediately dial 120:
1 Chest tightness, unexplained radiating pain in the left shoulder and back, accompanied by shortness of breath, sweating, nausea and vomiting, consider angina, immediate medical attention. Even if the pain is relieved, you must seek medical attention.
2 Severe chest pain, epigastric pain, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, duration greater than 15 minutes, suspected myocardial infarction.
3 There is also a long-term mental stimulation, chest tightness and shortness of breath that occurs under stress, and it is also necessary to seek medical attention:
Frequent palpitations, chest tightness, chest pain, poor breathing, and even when there is no emotional stimulation can occur suddenly.
If the examination confirms that there is no organic lesion, it may be cardiac neurosis, which is more common in women aged 20 to 50 years and needs to go to a psychologist.
It is inevitable to be angry in life, what we have to do is not "mo angry", but to unravel it in the right way when there is anger, don't hold it in your heart, hold out the disease.
Reviewer
Liu Qiang | Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Psychiatry, Shanghai Mental Health Center
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