Contents:
- Medical Video: The Effects of Divorce on Childrens Mental Health Through the Life Course First Hand
- The most common effects of divorce on health
- 1. Changes in body weight drastically
- 2. Risk of metabolic syndrome
- 3. Restlessness
- 4. Depression
- 5. Insomnia
- 6. Cardiovascular disease
Medical Video: The Effects of Divorce on Childrens Mental Health Through the Life Course First Hand
Divorce not only has an effect on family harmony, but also the physical and mental health of each person involved. What effects of divorce might have on health?
The most common effects of divorce on health
1. Changes in body weight drastically
Divorce is stressful, even depression. Both of these conditions can be factors that cause weight gain without realizing it. Everyone has a different stress response, but generally overeating is the most common emotional outlet.
For others, feeling sad, lackluster orbad mood during this period it has the opposite effect. Stress can make some people's appetite disappear. Divorce makes people feel hopeless that makes people less excited, including about appetite.
2. Risk of metabolic syndrome
Reported on the Prevention page, undergoing a divorce process can increase the risk of metabolic syndrome. Again, all of this comes from the stress you experience.
Excessive levels of stress hormones in the body can increase blood pressure, blood sugar, cholesterol, and increase the reserves of dangerous belly fat.
These conditions lead to a high risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes mellitus.
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicines found that divorced women were more likely to experience metabolic syndrome than women with fine marriages.
3. Restlessness
Divorce stress can make someone easily nervous. Not only because of being overwhelmed by taking care of the process and all its bureaucracy, but also because you will lose partners in life also face a new future that is totally unexpected.
Plus, there is a lot of uncertainty that is felt that makes the person feel insecure. Some people may have to face new situations, such as moving homes, looking for new jobs, surviving with more difficult economic conditions than before divorce.
This big change in life then affects a person's psychological condition to become more anxious and easily anxious.
4. Depression
Many people associate divorce with failure in life. These various negative emotions that you experience can last up to several weeks, months, even years after a divorce that might lead to depression.
5. Insomnia
In some cases, divorce can also be accompanied by "side effects" of difficulty sleeping. This can exacerbate stress, or even be exacerbated by stress, which then increases the risk of depression. Divorce also often makes people experience nightmares.
6. Cardiovascular disease
The Journal of Marriage and Family reports that middle-aged men and women who are divorced have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease compared to people who are still married at the same age.
In this case women are more prone to cardiovascular disease than men, because it is found that the level of inflammation is more experienced by women than men. Inflammation has a close relationship with stressful conditions.
The study in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes also found that women who experienced divorce had a 24% higher risk of heart attack. Meanwhile, women who have divorced more than once experience an increased risk of heart attack by 77 percent.
