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Is there a relationship between cancer and emotions?

As we all know, heredity, dietary habits and too little exercise are the reasons for the high incidence of cancer in recent years. In addition, the occurrence of cancer is also very much related to emotions, and bad emotions will involve the operation of cells throughout the body, so there is no need to doubt that cancer and anger are very much related.


Everyone talks about cancer, and we all know that cancer is a chronic disease, and its occurrence has many triggering factors, but on the whole, it is mainly related to the disorders of people's internal functions, and emotion is one of the very important links. Anger, i.e., self-repression and bad mood. Unhealthy personality and emotion is one of the risk factors in the process of cancer initiation and development, which will greatly weaken the immune function of human body, leading to dysfunction of internal organs, endocrine imbalance, immune dysfunction, so that the obstacle of qi and blood operation will produce stagnation of qi, stasis of blood, phlegm condensation and toxicity aggregation, which will inevitably lead to the deficiency of righteousness within the body, and the evil toxins will make a mistake to take advantage of the deficiency and form cancer tumors. As a matter of fact, as early as in ancient Rome, the famous doctor Galen concluded that depression could easily cause cancer. China's Southern Song Dynasty famous medical doctor Zhu Danxi's "Gezhi Yu Lun" also mentioned that women and in-laws, aunts and sisters-in-law do not get along, depressed, easy to get milk rock, that is, what we call today's breast cancer.


From the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the human body has a gas knot gas stagnation said that anger is easy to make the original smooth seven meridians and eight collaterals become sluggish, the blood flow back to the heart of the slow speed, in a certain part of the generation of foci, thus for the occurrence of disease buried time bomb. Therefore, it can be said that anger is not only easy to cause cancer, but also the source of all diseases, not too much.


Anger, is the use of other people's mistakes to punish themselves, self-inflicted suffering, pleasing emotions and impulses, but lost themselves. Sunny people are healthy, in life, must be pleasant to live, even if the cancer is haunting, should be open to face.


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I once had a young female patient say to me, "Doctor, could you survey the patients you treat and see if every one of them has experienced chronic bad moods?"

This is said because this patient had a long history of depression due to family problems before she found out that she had cancer, so in her consciousness, there was a direct causal relationship between her cancer and her mood.

So, are bad moods really linked to cancer?

The answer is yes.

In the development of many cancer triggers, there are bad emotions this article, malignant tumors as a result of the long-term role of adverse stimuli in the human body, in which the bad emotions are also one of them, and long-term smoking in the human body, long-term poor dietary habits are the same.

So there is a "cancer personality (C personality)", although this personality does not necessarily suffer from cancer, but this personality is invariably the risk of cancer is much higher than the character of the cheerful people. C personality refers to the kind of emotional easily suppressed depression personality, manifested in the fear of competition, submissive, angry to swallow, love to sulk and so on. The type C personality refers to the kind of depressive personality that is easily suppressed. People with this type of personality are more likely to be hurt, and when things go wrong, they are more likely to be depressed for a long period of time, unable to get rid of themselves.

So it is really important to stay optimistic and cheerful, not only for your quality of life, but also for the prevention of diseases.

As we all know, cancer is closely related to genes, living habits and environmental factors, and it is also the main reason for the high incidence of cancer in recent years. Some people think that cancer and anger have a lot to do with each other, and they find that people who are often angry are more likely to get cancer, is that true or not?

According to traditional Chinese medicine, depression and anger hurt the liver, excessive happiness hurts the heart, worry hurts the spleen, excessive sadness hurts the lungs, and panic hurts the kidney, which also shows from one side that there is a great relationship between people's emotions and the occurrence of diseases. Clinically, many tumor patients have experienced big changes in their lives (e.g. divorce, widowhood, loss of children, unemployment) before the onset of the disease. In a large-scale survey on esophageal cancer, it was found that most of the male patients belonged to the category of people with impatient personality and irritable temper. In other words, cancer prefers to haunt people who like to get angry or who are always thinking. Dr. Vernon T. Reilly of the Pacific Northwest Foundation and his colleagues conducted a comparative animal study in which two groups of mice were injected with a carcinogen that causes breast cancer. 13 months later, mice protected from extreme mood swings had only 7% of the cancers; mice left in an environment that constantly caused tension had 60% of the cancers. Dr. Reilly said that emotional stress can make cancer more likely to develop and cause it to spread throughout the body from the site of the disease.

When a person is angry, the heart rate will be accelerated, the blood pressure will be elevated, and the brain will order the body to secrete corticosteroid hormone, which, if accumulated too much in the body, will impede the functioning of immune cells, thus weakening the immune system's "immune surveillance" role of recognizing and eliminating cancer cells. On the contrary, good psychological emotion can adjust and balance the immune function of the body, which can not only prevent the occurrence of malignant tumors, but also make the existing malignant tumors in the state of "self-limitation" or eventually be eliminated by the strong immune function of the body.

Women who are in a bad mood for a long time are prone to breast lumps. Anger leads to stagnation of qi and blood, and disorders of the liver and spleen, which are important causes of breast lumps. Anger will make the endocrine system disorders, so that the thyroid gland secretes too much hormone, and over time it is easy to form hyperthyroidism, combined with the risk of malignant changes in the nodules. When angry, sympathetic nerve excitation, vascular contraction, gastrointestinal blood flow reduction, peristalsis deceleration, loss of appetite, causing gastrointestinal dysfunction, gastric ulcers, etc., so that the incidence of digestive tract tumors increased.

Anger is an unavoidable emotion in daily life, but it is not true that people will get cancer if they are angry, rather, there is a certain relationship between cancer and people's moods, and it is not true that a lot of anger can hurt the body. The good or bad mood of a person is not only related to the occurrence of cancer, but also very much related to the treatment effect of cancer patients. For other diseases as well, a good state of mind and mood is quite crucial, and sometimes it is the medicine to cure them. So in life, I hope everyone learns to control their emotions properly, take a step back, the sea is wide open, for no other reason than to have a healthy body.

The disciple asked the Zen master, "Master, how can I control my emotions and not get angry when things happen?" The Zen master replied, "If you are convinced of cause and effect, you will not be confused; all enmities and grudges are the result of cause and effect, and if you are not confused, you will not be angry. Getting angry is like drinking poison yourself and expecting others to suffer."

Medical and psychological research over the years has shown that psychosocial factors have a very important impact on the health of individuals. As socio-economic development continues to change people's lifestyles and behaviors, the impact of psychosocial factors on health is becoming more and more evident. Positive and optimistic emotional experiences, such as happiness, adoration, pleasure and hope, can make people feel that life is full and meaningful, and the body's ability to resist disease will be strengthened; negative and pessimistic emotional experiences, such as fear, anxiety, anger and sadness, often make people lose the sense of existence in life, become helpless and lost, and the body's ability to resist disease will be weakened.

Chinese medicine also believes that "illness is born from the heart", that the occurrence of disease is related to "emotion and will". Normal emotional activities, is the body's different emotional response to external environmental stimuli, generally does not make people sick. But when the strong and persistent emotional stimuli, beyond the body's adaptive capacity, affecting the lifting of the internal organs of the gas in and out, can cause disease. Such as excessive anger can lead to liver qi upward, excessive thinking can lead to heart and spleen qi deficiency.

Not only can psychological emotions induce physical illness, but likewise, physical illness itself can have an impact on an individual's psychological activity. The diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of cancer are very important stressful events for patients, which can lead to depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and many other adverse emotional reactions, and these adverse emotional states play an important role in the pathogenesis and treatment of cancer, which is the biggest risk factor for cancer recurrence, metastasis, and high mortality.

In the interrelationship between emotion and cancer, the immunoregulatory system plays an important role as a mediator. The theory of immune surveillance holds that, in the process of the body's struggle with the environment, its cells will from time to time have mutations, and some of the cells may even undergo cancerous changes to form tumor cells, and the role of immune surveillance lies in identifying and destroying those in-situ tumors that cannot be identified in the clinic, but when the growth of these tumors exceeds the control of the body's immune surveillance function, the tumor cells will continue to grow and form tumors in the body. Adverse emotions have a suppressive effect on immunity.

NK cells are important immune cells in the body and are associated with anti-tumor, anti-viral infection and immune regulation. Some studies have shown that NK cell activity is higher in cancer patients with stable extroverted personalities, while NK cell activity is significantly lower in cancer patients with unstable introverted personalities.

Interferon has the ability to inhibit the replication of tumor viruses or enhance the activity of NK cells, macrophages and T lymphocytes to play an immunomodulatory role. Studies have shown that r-interferon levels are very significantly suppressed in breast cancer patients compared to healthy people.

Interleukin (IL) is also a biologically active substance in the body's immune system and plays an important role in diseases such as malignant tumors. Cancer patients with positive emotions have higher levels of IL-1β and IL-6 during radiotherapy, which inhibit the acute inflammatory response to radiotherapy treatment and are more conducive to promoting tissue repair processes.

Therefore, both healthy people and cancer patients should maintain an optimistic and positive mindset in order to be conducive to health and promote recovery from the disease.

At present, psychological intervention is also used in clinical practice, and psychological counseling helps cancer patients regulate their emotions, relieve pain, prolong their lives, and improve the quality of survival.

Here are a few ways you can de-stress, relax, and regulate your emotions:

1, meditation. Choose a quiet and undisturbed space, sit down, adjust your body to feel the most comfortable, how comfortable how to sit, straighten your back, close your eyes. Start from the head to relax the eyeballs, relax the mind, face muscle relaxation, and then lift the shoulders to do three deep breaths, and then keep the usual breathing, and relax the belly to the toes. About 30 to 40 seconds at a time, do this method for five to ten minutes.

2. Music therapy. Melodious lyrical music can achieve muscle relaxation, hypnosis, analgesia, and can regulate the function of the nervous system, while regulating respiratory, circulatory, digestive, endocrine and other systemic functions, to stimulate the spirit of physical strength.

3. Cultivate hobbies. You can cultivate chess, painting, calligraphy, photography and other hobbies to divert attention, improve the interest of life, reduce negative emotions.

4. Enhance the patient's experience of the value of life through activities such as dating, club activities, or participation in social welfare matters.

Let me tell you a story about someone close to me, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law.

My father-in-law is a Shanghai native who was spared in Xinjiang when he was young and did not return to Shanghai until he was middle-aged. He married my mother-in-law, a shrewd and powerful Ningbo woman. From a young age, she liked to play mahjong, before the days are not rich, the family relied on my father-in-law to work alone to earn money, my mother-in-law usually play cards in the neighborhood, in order to prevent her mother-in-law from playing cards, I do not know how many fights my father-in-law and mother-in-law. In the end, my father-in-law couldn't fight with my mother-in-law, but he was also angry with my mother-in-law.

My father-in-law, 78 years old, about 34 months this year, could not pass stool for a month or so, and at the repeated request of his family, went to the hospital for a checkup. He was found to have rectal cancer, stage IV tumor, and metastasis to the lungs and liver. For the whole family, is a bolt from the blue, my father-in-law is a particularly hard-working people, is a lifetime by my mother-in-law suppression, mother-in-law also said that my father-in-law when he was young is a sheep, can be imagined by her bullied into what kind of. Full of wife strict, everything is obedient to the mother-in-law, because if the mother-in-law is not happy, my mother-in-law will make a big fuss, I heard that when I was young, when not happy, smashed things, do not cook for the family. That's why my father-in-law obeys my mother-in-law in everything, and he doesn't dare to take it out on her even if he's angry.

Slowly in the heart of the fire can not send, slowly boil bad body. The final result is this. My husband, mother-in-law brought up, there is a very serious problem, is particularly picky eaters, only eat meat not eat vegetables and fruits. My daughter in my maternity leave is also handed over to the mother-in-law to bring, that time to add complementary food directly to eat a piece of meat, do not pay attention to meat and vegetables, step by step, slowly, resulting in my daughter to the present is also a bare meat do not love to eat vegetables, I think and no science to add complementary food has a lot to do with. As a result of not eating vegetables for a long time, my husband is often constipated and has to sit on the toilet several times a day. I'm really afraid that he'll end up with the same problem as my father-in-law. But can you say that about your mother-in-law? I can't! Because my mother-in-law can't hear a single word of criticism against her.

If you say half a word that doesn't go her way, it can piss you off. So I don't want to live with my mother-in-law at all, and I don't want her to help me with the kids. My husband wants me to move in with my mother-in-law after my father-in-law leaves, do you think such a mother-in-law can live together?

Living separately, I take care of two kids, it will be hard, but I don't have to suffer from my mother-in-law, so I'll let it go even if it's hard. I don't even want to visit her on the weekends now, I went over to visit her last weekend and she made a scrambled egg and bought a chicken, then she only filled three bowls of rice, one for her son and the other two must be for her grandchildren right? Surprisingly, she didn't load the rice for me! I was so angry that I didn't eat a single bite of rice. How many people can live with such a mother-in-law? How many of you can live with such a mother-in-law and not get cancer over time?

Xiong Zhaogang, Xi'an Chest Hospital

As the incidence of cancer increases and the age of onset becomes younger and younger, it has become a serious threat to human health. In addition to the physical and mental shock of cancer patients, their families cannot bear the pain caused by cancer. Today's medical model has gradually shifted to a physiological-psychological-social medical model, and psychosocial research on cancer patients has proved that negative emotions can influence the occurrence of cancer.

It has been found through numerous studies that cancer patients are not good at expressing their emotions before the onset of the disease, and they are reluctant to express their emotions when they are depressed and always avoid communication. Anger, as a negative emotion, has a definite effect on cancer. When the mood is good, the emotional center of the brain will secrete a kind of "endorphin" substance that is beneficial to health, which can activate the function of the immune system and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. When people are in negative emotions such as anger, sadness and despair for a long period of time, it will lead to disorders of the neuroendocrine system, dysfunction of the immune system and lack of monitoring of cancer cells, resulting in the sudden proliferation of cancer cells.

Negative emotions don't just affect the development of cancer, they have an impact on the treatment and quality of survival of cancer patients. A study on tumor patients who underwent surgery at an early stage found that cancer patients who were positive and optimistic about their treatment had better treatment results and lower recurrence rates. Patients who are skeptical about treatment are depressed all the time, and their treatment effect is greatly reduced and their prognosis is not good.

In summary, anger is a form of negative emotion that can affect the development of cancer and the effectiveness of treatment. Establishing positive emotions and developing good emotional control are extremely important for physical and mental health.

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We all know that for cancer patients, the management of emotions is very important, some negative emotional fluctuations will not only reduce the patient's quality of life, but also promote the development of cancer, and when the patient faces the cancer with a positive mindset, it seems that the benefits brought by the treatment are more obvious, and the disease has been curbed to a certain extent, so we have always believed that the degree of progress of the cancer and the effect of the treatment are closely related to the patient's Therefore, we have always believed that the degree of cancer progression and treatment effect are closely related to the patient's emotional state, which is also the reason why we often tell cancer patients to avoid facing the disease with negative emotions as much as possible.

So, does a negative emotion like anger contribute to the development of cancer? In fact, we do not have sufficient evidence to prove this thesis, but in clinical practice, too many cases seem to be prompting us to recognize its truth, and we do have quite a few inferences on this point, of which the most acceptable would be the effect of emotions on the immune system;

As we all know, there is a close relationship between the occurrence of cancer and the strength of immunity: some body cells have mutated under the influence of certain factors, but the immune system can not remove them, and then cancer is formed by the mutated cells; it can be seen that a strong immune system can effectively prevent cancer from occurring, and when the immune system declines, the risk of cancer will be elevated; and some negative emotions, such as anger, anxiety, depression, etc., are the main culprits leading to the decline of human body immunity, so it is said that the occurrence and progression of cancer are associated with anger and other negative emotions. Negative emotions, such as anger, anxiety, depression, etc. are the main culprits leading to the decline of human immunity, so that the occurrence and progression of cancer are associated with negative emotions such as anger.

In this way, only a positive mindset and good emotions are fundamental to maintaining health, and both healthy people and cancer patients should focus on the body's emotional management.

Cancer is related to love of anger, and bad mood will pull the whole body cell operation, weaken the body's immune function, and even cause endocrine disorders in the human body. Of course, there are many causes of cancer, including genetic factors, poor dietary habits, too little exercise, etc., are the reasons for the high incidence of cancer in recent years. Here we will talk about why anger will increase the prevalence of cancer.

Anger is an unavoidable emotion in our life, and all individuals will be angry at times. Short-term anger, can cause a series of hormonal changes in the body, causing blood sugar, blood pressure and other significant increases. And long-term bad mood, will lead to human organs dysfunction, endocrine imbalance, immune dysfunction. Standing in the Chinese medicine point of view, anger will lead to qi and blood operation obstacles, resulting in stagnation of qi, blood stasis, so that the toxins gathered, induced cancer tumor.

Studies have proven that women who are angry have a significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer. And men with impatient and irritable personalities are most likely to get esophageal cancer. People who are angry are not only prone to cancer, but also have other health risks. For example, women who are angry are more likely to develop pigmentation and hyperthyroidism.

We all understand the reasoning, but we just can't avoid losing our temper. What we can do is to lose our temper as little as possible, learn more ways to vent, correct our mentality, and do not punish ourselves with other people's mistakes. Life is just so short dozens of years, happy is also a day, unhappy is also a day, why do we want to be unhappy?

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Sulking brings all kinds of diseases, and anger brings physical and mental exhaustion, and physical damage! Sulking, in particular, brings the most damage to the body!

I have a distant sister-in-law, when she got married, her body was great, that is, as the rural people often say, long and solid! When the farm is busy, one person tops two people, work that fight, the family's work in the field she all alone, the village does not know this "desperate three women"!

Later, with the farmers into the city, some working rich, some in the field does not come back, see around the relatives are rich rich, buy a house to buy a house, she is also anxious, because living conditions are not as good as out of the working back, thinking of their own so capable, every day to rush their own family husband to go on the boat to earn money. She herself is also particularly spellbinding!

But life, not you work hard to be able to compare to others, looking at the efforts, but also not as good as others, this sister-in-law during the day is not desperate to earn money, and go home at night to see others have a car and a house, everything is not as good as others, and sometimes there are people who look down on her. Not to mention the quarrels at home, she would sulk every day and keep her anger in her heart! Later, this sister-in-law's body, appeared overdraft situation, later, found out the cancer, later, after several times of chemotherapy, is also hopeless ......

Life gives everyone different, don't compare, protect what belongs to you, nourish your essence, and life gets better and better when disease stays away from you!

We often say that anger hurts, which shows that anger is not good for the body.

In recent years, the high incidence of cancer has become the number one killer threatening human health. In addition to heredity, dietary habits and lack of exercise, which are high causes of cancer.

Emotions, too, have become an important part of triggering cancer.

Anger, i.e., self-repression and poor mood. Poor personality and emotions are risk factors in the initiation and development of cancer.

When people are angry, human immunity will be greatly weakened, leading to dysfunction of internal organs, endocrine imbalance, immune dysfunction, making qi and blood operation obstacles to produce stagnation of qi, blood stasis, phlegm condensation and toxicity aggregation of mutual agglutination, and ultimately causing internal deficiency of positive qi and entry of evil into the body to form cancerous tumors.

Therefore, in our daily life, we must maintain a good mood and be less angry, so that we can not only prevent cancer, but also prevent many other diseases.

When angry, we can relieve it in several ways:

1, relax, big hearted people generally do not care about too many details, on the contrary, small hearted people, other people a thoughtless words, may make themselves unhappy;

2, learn to tolerate, as the saying goes, take a step back, a lot of things do not need to fight, in the spirit of indifference, more tolerance and more tolerance, will reduce the occurrence of many negative emotions;

Learning to be thankful, learning to be thankful for life, friends, and family will allow us to discover more beautiful aspects of the world, to laugh at life, and to laugh at difficulties.

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