Contents:
- Medical Video: Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives!
- Is that revenge?
- The danger of holding a grudge for health
- 1. Changing the composition of brain hormones
- 2. Triggering an unhealthy lifestyle
- 3. Increases the risk of heart damage
- 4. Triggers chronic pain
- 5. Triggers premature aging
Medical Video: Wild Animals That SAVED Human Lives!
Everyone has been hurt and hurt other people. And sometimes it's hard to reconcile with the emotions that are raging and try to forgive them. In the end, the anger that has been buried so far makes us hold grudges.
Not many know that saving grudges not only makes us upset and damages relationships with people around us, but also causes emotional disturbances that can have an impact on health if it happens for a long time.
Is that revenge?
Revenge is a condition where we want someone else who makes a mistake with us to receive a reply or a consequence of his mistake. Compared to trying to manage emotions better by expressing anger naturally and then forgiving, keeping a grudge makes us consider the person a threat that causes feelings of stress or repetitive trauma even though the actual event has long passed.
In fact, forgiving does not mean we forget someone's mistakes and let those mistakes happen again. Forgiveness is a way to train our minds not to constantly consider ourselves to be victims and feel depressed due to mistakes made to us.
A little bit, after a long time it becomes a hill. As soon as the saying goes, and this also proves to be true in the sense of revenge in the heart. Over time, holding grudges affects the functioning of the brain and overall mental health which ultimately also affects physical health.
The danger of holding a grudge for health
Here are some ways to save grudges can have a negative impact on health:
1. Changing the composition of brain hormones
The brain is an organ that works when we think, communicate, and form social relationships with other people. The function is influenced by two hormones that are interrelated but can work opposite, namely the hormone cortisol and the hormone oxytocin. The hormone cortisol is usually released when we are under great mental stress, such as when holding a grudge. Conversely, the hormone oxytocin is produced when we forgive and when making peace with ourselves and others.
Both of these hormones are needed and the balance between the two creates good stress (eustress) such as when working to achieve goals, and controlling bad stress (distress) The hormone cortisol is known as a dangerous hormone if produced continuously for a long time, because it not only affects the work of the central nervous system but also the work of other organs. Excessive secretion of cortisol also suppresses the hormone oxytocin, which is needed for emotional and social health, such as the ability to maintain good relationships with spouses or other people.
2. Triggering an unhealthy lifestyle
Saving grudges turned out to be related to various chronic diseases. Heavy stress stimulated by revenge triggers a person to pay less attention to his health condition. A study showed that the temperamental conditions caused by holding grudges caused people to be more likely to smoke and eat high-calorie junk food, both of which were risk factors for diabetes mellitus.
3. Increases the risk of heart damage
Negative emotional buildup is known to be the cause of high blood pressure in a person, and this will be very dangerous for a long time.
As with the emergence of negative emotions, storing grudges for some time can make us always feel depressed and angry, especially the repetitive mechanism can increase the risk of heart disease. A study conducted by the American Heart Association has proven that storing anger and revenge can lead to coronary heart disease which is preceded by conditions of high blood pressure and atherosclerosis.
4. Triggers chronic pain
This comes from a conjecture stating that individuals who hold grudges often experience some medical conditions. A study conducted in populations in the United States showed that someone who holds grudges has a 50% higher chance of experiencing pain-related illnesses such as gastric ulceration, back pain and headaches. The researcher also concluded that holding grudges was related to the possibility of being associated with psychosomatic disorders.
5. Triggers premature aging
The mechanism of premature aging is related to the excessive secretion of stress hormones that occur when you hold a grudge to cause a sense of depression and frustration. In addition to emotional disturbances, the body responds to excessive stress by triggering premature aging because of changes in DNA chromosomes in the regeneration process for the formation of new cells, which triggers faster biological aging of organs in the body. Instead of forgiving, the stress hormones produced become more controlled and minimized so that the stress response process can return to normal.
