Can the MIND cause Disease?

Can The Mind Cause Disease?

The possibility that individuals may be able to “give” themselves a disease (condition such as disease or cancer or diabetes may due to something they said, did, or didn’t do, years beforehand) has generated feelings of guilt in patients. So far there is no convincing evidence to link any ailment a patient may currently have with any changes in the immune system that resulted from a specific event in the past. Wow I don’t that’s a relieve isn’t it? Cause I don’t believe it either….

Disease such as cancer are more likely to result from a complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors, including nutrition. Emotions probably plays only a small part in determining susceptibility to serious diseases. Psychological factors affect survival, but their influence seems relatively minor, especially in later and serious stages of disease, or when the immune system is severely compromised, as in AIDS.

However this factors could have crucial impact on the quality life and the severity of many chronic diseases. Given a particular circumstances, how a patient copes mentally with stress of these conditions may be significant.