Cancer, a major category of disease that poses a serious threat to human life and health, has yet to be conquered by mankind.
For a long time, scientists have done a lot of research on cancer, and although they have not been able to figure out the cause of cancer completely, it has been confirmed that there are about 3,000 kinds of chemicals that can cause cancer, as well as ionising radiation, ultraviolet rays, chronic mechanical stimulation, certain viral infections, aflatoxin, etc., which are also cancer-causing factors. What cannot be ignored is that bad mood is also a cancer promoter.
Emotions are attitudinal experiences and related behavioural responses to objective things.
Emotions are characterised by personal experience, and only events that are perceived by oneself, are relevant to one’s life and cause perceptions will generate emotions and create stress in one’s interpretation. Therefore, the stress felt by each individual when confronted with the same event will be different, and the emotions generated will be different.
Generally speaking, after interpreting the perceived event, positive and affirmative emotional experiences and behaviours are generated when it meets one’s psychological needs, while negative and negative emotional experiences and behaviours are generated when it does not. The former are called benign emotions, while the latter are called maladaptive emotions.
China’s ancient medical doctors have long known that worry and anger, will make the body’s qi and blood run poorly, dysfunction of the five viscera and six bowels, over time, it may evolve into cancer.
At present, it is found that lung cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer and pancreatic cancer are all affected by emotions very obviously: people who are emotionally suppressed are prone to lung cancer; psychological factors closely related to stomach cancer include introversion, depression, and mental trauma during adolescence; breast cancer is related to unresolved sorrow; people who are more distant from others and prone to attracting right and wrong are more prone to develop digestive and lymphatic cancers compared to the ordinary people. People who are more distant from others and prone to trouble with others are more likely to develop cancers of the digestive system and lymphatic system than ordinary people; people who are depressed and do not show their feelings are 15 times more likely to develop cancers than those who have a cheerful personality. All these facts show that bad mood is the most effective medium for the production and development of cancer cells, and it is also the murderer of the high incidence of cancer.
Today, more and more doctors are noticing that many cancer patients often have something extremely sad to happen or have suffered a serious mental shock before the onset of their illness. A cancer expert in the United Kingdom investigated 250 cancer patients and found that 156 of them had experienced serious mental trauma before the onset of the disease. Another scholar surveyed 405 cancer patients and found that 72 per cent of them had had an emotional crisis. Others, after analysing the literature on a large number of cancer patients, concluded that depression, disappointment and unrelieved sorrow, such as marital discord, family disputes, loss of love, loss of spouse, rough life experiences and other mental traumas, are important triggers for the development of cancer. Although some cancer patients do not have serious mental trauma before the onset of the disease, they are in a long-term mental state of depression and sorrow, pessimism and disappointment. Some people call this kind of people’s personality as C-type personality, and this kind of people is also prone to the development of cancer.
Why do bad emotions and psychological tension, depression and trauma increase people’s cancer rate? It turns out that in healthy people, although normal cells may mutate into cancer cells under the action of cancer-causing factors, the immune system of the human body monitors them at any time and can destroy or eliminate them in time to prevent cancer tumours from occurring. Psychological tension, depression and trauma will make the central nervous system dysfunctional and weaken the immune function. Once the immune system fails to play a perfect protective role in the body, it is difficult to destroy possible cancer cells, and the chances of developing cancer will naturally increase.
Once suffering from cancer, it is also very important to maintain a good psychological state, so that the patient can have a good immune function to fight against cancer. In the clinic, we can see that many cancer patients have a strong belief in overcoming cancer, are optimistic and happy, and cooperate well with doctors in surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatments, which not only result in good efficacy, remission of disease, prolonged survival time, but also lead to a complete cure of cancer. However, in our daily life, we often see that some patients, once they hear that they are suffering from cancer, are at a loss as to what to do and are in a state of anxiety all the time. This way, they lose the battle spiritually, which is not only unfavourable to the fight against cancer, but also scared by cancer, and as a result, such people do not die of cancer, but die of mental breakdown.
Therefore, after understanding that the mental state of a person has a close relationship with the development of cancer and the improvement and deterioration of the condition, it is necessary to pay attention to personal mental hygiene in general. It is important to know that a healthy mind and good character not only can improve physical quality and make people have better social adaptability, but also has important significance in reducing the incidence of cancer and overcoming cancer.
