One in ten people living in this world will have a nervous breakdown, and most of them are caused by worries and emotional conflicts. Therefore, we must be vigilant and resist anxiety today.

Dr. Alexis Karreel, a former Nobel Prize winner in medicine, said, "Businessmen who don't know how to resist anxiety will die short-lived." ”

In fact, it is not only businessmen, but also housewives, old people and plasterers...... It's all true.

Referring to the impact of anxiety on people, the attending physician at the Bay-Colorado and Santa Fe United Hospital said that 70 percent of the patients doctors come into contact with will get better if they can address their fears and worries.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that they are all sick, they are as sick as you have a tooth decay, sometimes 100 times worse.

The disease that the doctor said was like nervous dyspepsia, certain stomach ulcers, heart disease, insomnia, some headaches and paralysis, and so on.

These diseases are real diseases, and he is not talking nonsense, because he himself has had a stomach ulcer for 12 years.

Fear makes you anxious, worry makes you nervous, and affects the nerves in your stomach, turning the gastric juice in your stomach from normal to abnormal. As a result, stomach ulcers are more likely to develop.

The famous Mayo brothers announced that more than half of our hospital beds are filled with people with neuropathy. However, when their nerves were examined in the most advanced way under a powerful microscope, it was found that most of them were healthy. Their "nervous problems" are not due to any problems with the nerves themselves, but because of emotional pessimism, irritability, anxiety, worry, fear, frustration, depression, and so on. Plato said:

The biggest mistake doctors make is that they want to heal the body, but they don't want to heal the mind. But the spirit and the body are one and cannot be disposed of separately.

It took 2,300 years for the medical science community to recognize this truth. We have just begun to develop a new type of medicine called "psychophysiological medicine" to treat both the mind and the body. There has never been a better time to do so, because medicine has been able to treat a myriad of terrible diseases caused by bacteria — smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, and other infectious diseases that have buried countless people in their graves. However, the medical profession has not been able to treat mental and physical conditions that are not caused by bacteria, but by emotional worries, fears, hatreds, irritability, and hopelessness. The catastrophe caused by this emotional illness is increasing day by day, becoming more widespread and at an alarming rate.

In his book Stop Worrying for Health, Dr. Eduard Podolski addresses several issues:

First, worry about the effects on the heart.

Second, worry leads to high blood pressure.

Third, rheumatism can be caused by worry.

Fourth, to protect your stomach, worry less.

Fifth, worry about how it will make you cold.

Sixth, worry and thyroid.

Seventh, worry with diabetics.

Another good book to discuss anxiety is "Against Yourself" by Dr. Carl Minr. Instead of telling you how to avoid worry, it does show you some terrible facts about how we can damage our physical and mental health through emotions such as anxiety, irritability, hatred, regret, rebellion, and fear.

Anxiety can make even the strongest people sick. In the final days of the American Civil War, General Grant discovered this. The story goes like this:

Grant besieged Richmond for nine months, and General Lee's disheveled, starving troops were defeated. At one point, several corps of men were not concentrating. The rest of the people met in their tents and prayed—screaming, crying, and seeing visions. Seeing that the war was coming to an end, General Lee's men set fire to Richmond's cotton and tobacco warehouses and arsenal, and then abandoned the city in the dark night of the flames. Grant took advantage of the victory, flanking the Southern Coalition from the left, right, and rear, while the cavalry intercepted from the front, dismantling the railway line and capturing the supply wagons.

Grant, who was half-blind due to a severe headache, could not keep up with the group 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 both of my wrists and the nape of my neck, hoping to recover the next morning." ”

The next morning, he recovered. But it was not the mustard ointment that restored him, but a cavalryman who brought back General Lee's book.

"My head hurt a lot when the officer came to me, but as soon as I saw the contents of the letter, I was fine."

Apparently, Grant was sick because of worry, nervousness, and emotional reasons. As soon as he regained his self-confidence emotionally, the thought of his achievements and victories was immediately fine.

Seventy years later, President Roosevelt's Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, found that anxiety made him dizzy. He recorded in his diary that he was worried that President Roosevelt had bought 4.4 million bushels of wheat in one day in order to raise the price of wheat, and that he said: "I felt dizzy until it came to fruition. I went home and slept for two hours after lunch. ”

Actress Molle O'Byrne told us that we must not worry, because worry almost destroyed her main asset - her beautiful looks.

When she first wanted to enter the film industry, she was worried and scared. She had just returned from India and had no acquaintances in London, but wanted to find a job there. She had met several producers, but none of them would use her. She ran out of money for two weeks, living on a few biscuits and water. Not only was I worried, but I was also hungry, and she said to herself, "Maybe you're a fool, maybe you'll never break into the film industry." At the end of the day, you have no experience and have never acted, so what do you have other than a pretty face? ”

She looked in the mirror. It was only when she looked in the mirror that she realized the impact of worry on her appearance. She saw the wrinkles caused by worry, she saw the anxious expression, so she said to herself, "You must stop worrying at once, you can't worry anymore, all you can give is your look, and worry will ruin it." ”

Nothing can age a woman faster and ruin her appearance than worry. Worry can make our faces ugly, make us clench our teeth, wrinkle our faces, make us sad all the time, turn our hair gray, and sometimes even fall out. Worry can cause blemishes, ulcers, and pimples on the skin on your face.

Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States. About 300,000 Americans died on the battlefield during World War II, but heart disease killed 2 million civilians during the same period of time — 1 million of them from anxiety and overstress. Yes, it was because of a heart attack that Dr. Alexis Gerrell said, "A businessman who doesn't know how to resist his worries will die a short life." ”

Chinese and black people in the American South rarely suffer from this worry-induced heart disease because they are calm.

Doctors die of heart disease 20 times more than farmers. Because the doctor lives a stressful life, this is the result.

"God may forgive us for our sins," William James said, "but our nervous system does not." ”

It's a surprising and unbelievable fact: more people die by suicide each year than from all common infectious diseases.

Why? The answer is usually "because of worry."

In ancient times, when cruel generals wanted to torture their captives, they often tied their hands and feet and placed them under a bag that kept dripping water...... Water dripping ...... Dripping ...... Day and night, at last, the water that kept dripping on the heads became as if it were the sound of a mallet, which made those people insane. This method of torture was previously used by the Spanish Inquisition and in Hitler's German concentration camps.

Anxiety is like dripping, dripping, dripping, dripping, and dripping, and that constant dripping, dripping, dripping, dripping, dripping,

Do you love life? Do you want to live a long and healthy life? Here's how you can do it. To quote Dr. Alexis Gerrell again: "In the complexity of modern cities, only those who can maintain peace of mind will not become insane." ”