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Physical and Mental Health
A Physical illness and the treatment, both, can affect our Mental Health. This document will help you to understand the effect of Physical illness on our Mental health.
A serious physical illness can affect our day to day life, relationships, work and our socializing with other people.
A serious illness can make us feel sad, frightened, worried or angry.
It may be because:
- You feel out of control of your body. You may feel that there is nothing that you can do.
- You feel lonely and isolated from family and friends. Sometimes it can be difficult to talk about the illness with those close to you. You don't want to worry or upset them. For some of us, the emotional impact of a serious physical illness can be overwhelming. Cancer or heart disease, for example, can make us very anxious and depressed. It can stop us from doing the things we need to do in our daily lives.
Anxiety and depression affect both our mind and body. Often the two happen at the same time.
Anxiety feels like:
- constant worrying thoughts, often about the illness and its treatment
- fearing the worst, for example, that your illness will get worse or that you might die
- being very aware of your heart beating (palpitations)
- tension and pains in your muscles
- being unable to relax
- sweating
- breathing too fast (hyperventilating)
- feeling dizzy
- feeling faint
- indigestion and diarrhea
Depression feels like:
- feelings of unhappiness that don't go away, and are there nearly all the time
- losing interest in life
- being unable to enjoy anything
- finding it hard to make even simple decisions
- feeling utterly tired
- feeling restless and agitated
- losing appetite and weight (some people find they do the reverse and put on weight)
- difficulty in sleeping and waking up earlier than usual
- losing interest in sex
- losing self-confidence and feeling useless, inadequate and hopeless
- avoiding other people
- feeling irritable
- feeling hopeless about yourself, your situation and the world generally - you may feel as if you are never going to get better, or that you are worthless
- thinking of suicide - this is common in depression. It is much better to talk about it than to try to hide it.
Some of these symptoms, such as feeling tired, poor sleep and loss of appetite, may be similar to those caused by the physical illness or its treatment.
- People become depressed and anxious when they are stressed for any reason. Being ill and having treatment are stressful. This is probably the most common reason.
- Some drug treatments, such as steroids, affect the way the brain works and so cause anxiety and depression directly.
- Some physical illnesses, such as an under-active thyroid, affect the way the brain works. They cause anxiety and depression directly.
- Anxiety and depression are common. You may just happen by chance to become anxious or depressed at the same time as you become physically ill.
In our next mail we will discuss different Mental Health Issues such as
· Anxiety Disorder
· Depression
· Stress
· Phobia
· Delusions
· Paranoia
· Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
· Social Anxiety Disorders
· Post Traumatic Stress Disorders
Herbs India Health Care Center
www.herbsindia.net
+91749891523/24
herbssmb@yahoo.com.
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