In recent years, "anxiety" and "depression" have frequently become hot words in society. Many people think that it is just simple "thinking too much" and "sentimental", and mistakenly think that it is simply "unhappy, unable to stand up", "fragile personality"... As everyone knows, diseases such as depression and anxiety are the embodiment of human health affected by negative emotions!
Mainland Chinese medicine has long had discussions on the seven major emotions of people (joy, anger, worry, thought, sadness, fear, and shock) and human health, such as anger hurting the liver, thinking about hurting the spleen, sadness hurting the lungs, fear of hurting the kidneys, etc.
As the saying goes, "people are refreshed at happy events, and they sleep a lot when they are stuffed", emotions have a great impact on a person's health, especially negative emotions. If you are in negative emotions for a long time, it is easy to affect daily life, work and study, resulting in a series of health problems in the human body, and even depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder and other diseases.
The impact of emotions on human health
Affects the nervous system
Persistent negative emotions often cause severe brain dysfunction and inhibit cerebral cortex activity, thereby affecting nervous system function.
Affects physiological function
Bad emotions can easily cause physiological function disorders, such as strong or long-term negative emotions can cause cardiovascular dysfunction, causing arrhythmia and other diseases.
Affects the endocrine system
Negative emotions can cause the human endocrine system to be affected, resulting in symptoms such as diabetes and irregular menstruation.
Affects immune function
Bad emotions can affect people's immune function in the long term, reduce cellular immunity, and interfere with antibody formation.
Emotions, like an unknown deep ocean, require us to make positive regulatory measures to avoid falling into the "whirlpool" of emotions.
So, in daily life, how should we avoid negative emotions and learn to regulate emotions in effective ways?
Talk regulation method
When we encounter setbacks in our lives and cause negative effects that are difficult to resolve, we can choose to talk to friends or family members who have a good relationship with us and seek help. Building good relationships with others and actively communicating can add a lot of intimate interaction space to our daily life, relieve stress and release emotions.
Vitamin D supplementation
Vitamin D is one of the essential nutrients in the human body, which is associated with the onset of depression. A new study published in the American journal Medical Hypothesis found that vitamin D deficiency may also affect mental health and lead to depression. Relevant studies have shown that serum vitamin D levels in patients with depression are significantly reduced and are related to the degree of depression, and vitamin D supplementation can effectively improve depression.
In daily life, vitamin D can be supplemented by consuming foods such as dairy products and nuts. In addition, sun exposure is also an effective way to supplement vitamin D, and direct sunlight can meet the amount of vitamin D synthesis that day. However, in the height of summer, the scorching sun is easy to burn the skin, we can choose vitamin D supplements to meet the demand for vitamin D to supplement nutrition and relieve negative emotions.
Increase exercise appropriately
Dopamine is the happy hormone in our lives and can bring more pleasure and comfort to the body.
Exercise can help us stimulate the secretion of dopamine in the body, but also improve psychological quality, enhance self-control and self-awareness, and reduce the impact of negative emotions and anxiety. For example, running can make people feel free and liberated, relieve stress and tension, and yoga can help people relax and reduce negative emotions and anxiety.
Emotions are closely related to human health, learn to regulate emotions scientifically, reduce the impact of negative emotions, enjoy the body and mind, and enjoy the beauty brought by life! (Contributed by Perfect China WeChat public account)