In his book: When The Body Says NO, Dr. Gabor Mate M.D., surmises it this way. There are three distinct types of people in this world, Type A Individuals are seen as robust, angry, tense, fast, aggressive, in – control and more prone to heart disease. Whereas Type B represent the balanced, moderate human being who can feel and express emotions without being driven and losing themselves in uncontrolled emotional out burst.
On The Other Hand: Type C individuals may resemble Type B, since both may appear easy going and pleasant, however, Type B will easily express anger, fear, sadness and other emotions. Type C individuals suppresses or regress negatively charged emotion while struggling to maintain a strong and happy façade.
Cancer patients…. to a significantly statistically degree are more likely to demonstrate the following traits: the element of denial and repression of anger and of other negative emotions, and the external appearance of a “nice” or “good” person with a suppression of any reaction that might offend another person thereby avoiding conflict.
While it can not be said any personality trait causes cancer, certain personality features definitely increases the risk because they generate physiological stress. Repression with the inability to say No and a lack of awareness of one’s anger, makes it much more likely for a person to find themselves in a situation where there emotions are ignored, unexpressed and gentleness exploited.
Those situations are stress inducing, whether or not the person is conscious of being stressed. Repeated and multiplied throughout the years of disrupting human homeostatis and the immune system. It is this stress: that undermines a body’s physiological balance and immune defenses predisposing the person to this dis-ease, or thereby reducing the resistance to it.
Physiological stress, is the link between personality traits and dis-ease. Certain traits — otherwise known as coping styles — magnify the “risk of illness” by increasing the likelihood of “chronic stress.” Common to them all — is a diminished capacity for any, all emotional communication. Emotional experiences are translated into potentially damaging biological events.
When human beings are prevented from learning how to express their true feelings effectively. That learning occurs — or fails to occur during childhood. Thereby, the way in which people are force to grow up will shape their relationships with their own body, psyche and other people. This is an important distinction between an inherent response and characteristic to the environment that ensures our survival.
As people grow older, others will resent them and that person will be disliked for what is a desperate response for emotional deprivation. When ask the following question: as a child, you felt sad, upset or angry; was there anyone you could talk to ~ even when what triggered it was the cause of that negative emotion? Dr. Mate stated, in the quarter century of practicing medicine he never heard anyone with cancer respond with “yes” to that question.
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