Their is the sort of personality that Canadian physician Gabor Mate has studied extensively. Over his years in his family practice, Mate relates, he began to a pattern: individuals who were unable to express anger, who didn’t seem to recognize the primacy of own needs. Who were constantly doing for others, appeared to be the ones that are most susceptible to a slew of ailments, from asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, and lupus, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. These conditions are all also autoimmune disorders. Mate claims that, when an individual engages in a long-term practice of ignoring or suppressing legitimate feelings–when he/ is just plain too nice. The immune system becomes compromised and confused, learning to attack the self rather than defend it.
I feel it’s important to Love Life, Yourself, Someone of Just Something!!!!!
By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person.
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The Type C Personality: Are You Susceptible to Illness?
Here’s what Michael writes about the Type C Personality:
Extrovert
People who are outgoing, involved in their communities, and also having strong social connections reap health benefits. An analysis of 148 studies published in the online journal PLoS medicine in July found that on average, adults enrolled in the study with many close friendships were 50 percent likelier to survive until their study ended than were those with few friendships. A 2009 study published in Perspectives in Psychological Science suggests that social support leads to improved coping skills, healthy behavior, and an adherence to medical regimens.
Bonding with others also reduces stress and improves the immune system—so making friends and getting involved becomes, in effect, a well-being tonic. What drives at least some of the health benefits goes beyond biology, Miller says. “It may have to do with the fact that when you’re around people, you think, ‘Oh, Martha has gone for her mammogram—that reminds me, I should, too.’ ”
Eager to please
People-pleasers—Type C’s—are conforming, passive, and want to accommodate. That can be a good thing when it comes to patient compliance: They’re more likely to take the right medicines in the right doses at the right times, for instance—once they see a doctor, that is. Making and following through on appointments can be challenging for Type C’s, who tend to accept their fate as inevitable and fall readily into hopelessness and helplessness.
That means others must push them to take care of themselves. “They may be less likely to maintain their health on their own,” Belamaric says. “If they develop a problem, they may just complain about it, hoping somebody says, ‘I have a good doctor, I’ll make you an appointment.’
” Some Type C’s may be so mired that they don’t seek medical attention—even when it’s clearly necessary—and slough off preventive behaviors, like watching what they eat. “If they get a serious diagnosis, they may be passive, throw their hands up, and say, ‘Well, there’s nothing I can do about it, anyway. If it’s my time, it’s my time,’ ” Belamaric says.
Stressed and distressed
Type D’s—D is for distressed—dwell on negative emotions and are afraid to express themselves in social situations. Compared to more optimistic sorts, a Type D may face three times the risk for future heart problems, according to a recent study in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Type D’s also face a higher likelihood of compulsive overeating and substance abuse. “If you’re a person who is prone to depression or anxiety, or if you’re overly self-critical, there’s more of a chance of turning to gratifying behavior to feel better,” Miller says.
Optimistic versus pessimistic
Optimism “heavily influences physical and mental health,” concluded a study published in May in the journal Clinical Practice & Epidemiology in Mental Health after researchers followed more than 500 males for 15 years.
The rate of heart-related deaths was 50 percent lower among optimists than among pessimists. “Optimists have a higher quality of life, and they may be more resilient in the way they deal with stress,” Miller says. “So if a problem comes along, they’re able to handle it better, and they become less symptomatic.”
Glass-half-empty types harbor little hope for the future and tend more toward depression and anxiety disorders. But also there’s a catch for those at the extreme end of the optimism spectrum: They think of themselves as impervious to risks. Extreme optimists who smoke are the best examples. They believe they won’t develop lung cancer. Why give up smoking prevent a nonexistent risk?
The “self-healing personality”
That is the name Howard Friedman, a professor of psychology at the University of California-Riverside, attaches to people who are curious, secure, constructive, responsive, and conscientious. These traits translate to enthusiasm for life, emotional balance, and strong social relationships. “Positive emotions buffer hormonal responses to stress,” says Friedman, whom studies the relationship between personality and longevity. Self-healers, he says, “have healthier behavior patterns: more physical activity, a better diet, and less smoking and substance abuse.”
Are certain personality types more likely to get cancer? Since we know that our personality affects how we live and what we do, also personality can be a significant puzzle piece in our overall health. Many years ago, studies found that people with a “Type A” personality and traits such as impatience, frustration, and hostility, had a greater risk of heart attack than people with more easy-going personalities. The search for links between personality and cancer has turned up some interesting connections … and debunked some internet myths.
Certain personality traits may reduce your risk of cancer but not because of the traits themselves, but rather for what those traits lead you to do. For example, personality types who are positively engaged about their health will see their physicians regularly, consume healthful foods, and exercise regularly—all known factors that reduce their risk of cancer.
Personality types that are more impulsive, reckless, and less likely to even give a thought for their health increase their risk of cancer, however, it is because they are more likely to smoke, drink to excess, be sedentary, and eat poorly. No scientifically sound studies have found that stress or grief can cause cancer. While prolonged emotional stress or profound grief can weaken the immune system, nobody has found any proof that these things cause cancer. So while persistent stress and grief are not good for your health, there is no indication that they increase your risk for cancer.
An interesting study from the University of Michigan found that people with plenty of social ties, including friends, family, and a sense of belonging to a community, had a lower overall death rate than loners—from all causes, including those but not limited to cancer. Researchers suggest that having a social network causes us to take better care of ourselves and, if we do feel sick or threatened, to get support.
Social people who face illness or any type of setback may feel less vulnerable because of their built-in support system. Moreover, these people-who-need-people are also more likely to hear positive advice and reinforcing messages about a healthy lifestyle from the folks who love them.
A person surrounded by family and friends will be urged (maybe even nagged) to go to the doctor when symptoms occur. On the other hand, people who seek an isolated lifestyle and actively avoid making friends or having contact with others die at an earlier age.
Loners can pursue poor lifestyle choices with little opposition. When a crisis hits, the isolated individual has no one to turn to and may feel deeply threatened. A person with no friends or family who faces a devastating illness may simply not have people around to provide help and support. Thus, wanting to live without friends and family does not cause cancer, however, it makes it harder to live a healthful lifestyle and to cope with a potentially life-threatening illness.
Some physicians have observed in their practice that cancer patients behave in similar ways. This may not be surprising in that all people faced with a cancer diagnosis are in a similar situation: fearful, stressed, confused. It has been stated that cancer patients are punctual, polite, submissive, and reserved.
It was once thought that people with certain personality traits were particularly susceptible to cancer. Neurotic people and introverts, in particular, were believed to be especially at risk for developing the disease. Personality type was also thought to play a role in whether people stricken with cancer would die of it.
Recent research has largely debunked such notions. A 2010 study involving 60,000 people in Sweden and Finland found no link between personality and overall cancer risk, and no link between personality traits and cancer survival. A Japanese study from 2003 looked for a connection between four personality traits – extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and deception – and four different types of cancer. It found none.
Even though there doesn’t appear to be a biological connection between personality type and cancer risk, certain traits are associated with behaviors that can raise or lower that risk. For example, highly health-conscious people are unlikely to engage in activities – like smoking, overeating, or basking in the sun too long – associated with cancer. People who pay less attention to diet and exercise may put themselves at higher risk for the disease.
“Although there is no biological association between personality traits and cancer risk, how an individual copes with cancer can have a positive effect on reducing distress and improving quality of life,” says Halyna Vitagliano, MD, MSci, a specialist in psychosocial oncology at Dana-Farber states, “Good coping strategies include getting enough sleep; maintaining a healthy, well-balanced diet; exercising; and also engaging in emotionally meaningful activities; and nurturing supportive relationships with loved ones.
Good coping skills means avoiding behaviors that are known biological risk factors for cancer, such as exposure to the sun’s harmful UV light, drinking excessively, and smoking. Good self-care and resilience go a long way in navigating the cancer journey.”
So when someone passes away from natural treatments should it be said that they had the wrong personality. I think these issues play against your chances of survival also.
1) If you believe there’s an appointed ‘time’ for us to pass away or not.
2) If the person had more going on “inside” than they could figure out to do on their own.
3) If the person had enough understanding, advice, wisdom or proper care to really treat what they were going through naturally
4) If the person was actually following all of the things they were supposed to do.
5) If the person could afford to do all of the things they were needing to do.
6) Also did they test or guess … et cetera.
Did you know them and their true daily habits, what age they were, how they grew up and when they changed their diets or if they even did. How old they are now and what challenges they faced and for how long?
All I know is we will all pass someday no matter how pure our diet is and if I was to pass tomorrow people would probably question what I do or am saying here, but I can share with you this one thing. Everyone makes mistakes and everyone does what they know best, but no one knows it all. More than anything we have a long way to go to truly understanding…things like what it means to detox safely.
Once you finally awaken from 60 years of bad diet, abusive lifestyle and unhealthy liver you can get sick and not recover from it while you are trying to do just that. One persons perfect diet is another persons poison. The bodies job is to eliminate toxic waste and our job is to help it do that by learning to listen to it and giving it what it needs to stay strong, healthy and flexible.
