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Personality Affects one’s Health

So it seems that the old adge “ laughter is the best medicine” may be true after all. Your personality can affect your health, but in ways you may not have imagined. You would expect those who are angry or depressed to be the most obvious victims, but it seems that being too nice might give you cancer or heart disease! People who are too nice don’t express their anger or frustration for fear of upsetting others. They keep their negative feelings bottled up inside, and this effects the growth of their cells which can lesd to cancer. They tend to care about others and will often take on other people’s problems. Many cancer patients have also experienced a really traumatic event or series of events about two years before the oneset of their disease. These events include the death of a loved one, divorce or the loss of a job. Being too nice can also cause stress which leads to higher blood pressure and increased risk of heart disease. Patients may also suffer other side effects caused by stress including loss of sleep, ulcers, kidney stones and other ailments. Being as angry as a bear doesn’t help, either. People who are angry, anxious or depressed are more likely to suffer from heart disease (also due yo an increase in blood pressure). People who are stressed or moody have weaker immune systems and are therefore more susceptible to getting sick than happy people who don’t take life too seriously. If you are impatient and set time limits for activities, then you are more likely to feel stressed. This can increase your blood pressure and put you in danger of having a heart attack. Patients who are positive and optimistic before surgery recover faster than patients who are depressed or pessimistic. This also applies to patients who are recovering from diseases. People who are optimistic and who deal with stress effectively have a decreased rick of cancer heart disease and other diseases. All of this means that happy people live longer. So just relax! Don’t sweat the small stuff, be positive and you will add years to your life!