Lesson 20: Stress and Illness: Slide 6
Feelings And Illness
- Feelings don’t directly cause or cure disease, but the biological mechanisms behind them may cause or contribute to disease
- Many of the nerve pathways and molecules behind both emotional responses and inflammatory disease are the same
- As a result the tendency to develop psychological diseases such as depression goes along with the tendency to develop inflammatory diseases like arthritis
Notes:
Pg 12-13, Sternberg, Esther M., 2001, “The Balance Within,” W.H. Freeman and Company, New York.
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