Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1913 — ANGER’S EFFECT ON HEALTH [ARTICLE]

ANGER’S EFFECT ON HEALTH

Contention Is Msds That Unpleasant Emotions Lead to a General Lowering of Activity. "The general law is that all peaceful tranquil, undisturbed types of thoughts Intend to act beneficently and helpfully upon all bodily organs and functions,” says a writer in Woman’s Home Companion, “and are health producing in their results; while all of the opposite nature have disturbing,, destructive influences and tend to produce bodily disorders. Among the former are faith, hope, courage, joy, good will, sympathy, affection, magnanimity. Among the latter are fear, worry, grief, avarice, ill will, jealousy, anger, hatred. “It is an unalterable law that the mind can act and always does act either “for the health or for the disease of the body.” We have disorders and diseases corresponding to what may be termed both positive and negative perversions of thought Among the latter are fear, grief, worry, despondency. Their action upon the various bodily organs and functions seems to be of a slow, corroding, lowering of activity, and slowly poisoning nature. In brief, a falling state of the mind is followed always by a falling condition of the body. “The slightest indulgence In or control by them results In lowered vitality, and hence capability, though these results may not always be sufficient to register themselves in any ' specific form In the body. If more pronounced, or long continued, they do culminate in this way. They Interfere with the normal prooese of nutrition. They prevent the formation of lifti-giving blood, with the results of-a lowered, poorer type of body building. They attack and undermine the nerves and the entire nervous organism, resulting sometimes in nerve exhanitlon and depression, sometimes In melancholia, heart disease, insanity—sometimes even in death itself.”