Analysis of Male Health Emotion Management and Psychological Adjustment Methods

How to Prevent Emotional Illness

Mental and emotional distress can seriously affect health and even lead to a host of illnesses.

To prevent various diseases caused by emotional distress, it is essential to know how to deal with emotional problems and mental anguish. Here are some methods experts offer for coping with emotional distress:

① Find ways to release your emotions. If you feel extremely hurt, try crying out loud, screaming, or even pounding your chest to release your unpleasant emotions through vigorous physical actions. Suppressing these emotions is like hiding a time bomb inside; it will eventually explode and cause serious physical illness.

② Talk to someone. Reveal your depression to close friends and seek their sympathy and support. Never try to cope alone or force yourself to be strong.

③ Accept the sympathy and help of others. After experiencing a major upheaval, let family and friends take care of you; don't be overly stubborn.

④ Distract yourself from the unfortunate event. Try to find various forms of entertainment to help you forget the unpleasant experience and reduce stress. ⑤ Rebuild your life. Many people, after a breakup or the loss of a spouse, force themselves to "mourn" for the lost love, which is actually a very foolish approach. The deceased is gone; you should let go and find a new emotional anchor. The sooner you find someone to emotionally connect with, the sooner the emotional damage will heal.

⑥ Plan for your future. This will make it easier and faster to forget the unpleasant past. However, be cautious and avoid making hasty major decisions to prevent repeating past mistakes and suffering another blow.

"Language" is also a means of therapy.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the synthesis and production of new drugs are increasing. However, the medical community has also discovered that the side effects of drugs on the human body are much greater than we imagine. Moreover, some illnesses, such as psychosomatic illnesses, cannot be treated with ordinary drugs. Therefore, medical professionals are increasingly inclined to use treatment methods that can cure diseases without or with minimal medication, such as psychotherapy. Language, as an important means of psychotherapy, is now receiving increasing attention.

As early as 400 BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates recognized the indispensable role of a doctor's language in healing. He said: "A doctor has two things that can heal: language and medicine."

This includes four aspects:

"Informing them of their failures"—pointing out the location and dangers of the disease, making the patient take it seriously;
"Speaking to them of their good points"—comforting the patient, indicating that with proper cooperation and treatment, recovery is possible, strengthening the patient's confidence in overcoming the disease;
"Guiding them to their convenience"—telling the patient how to recuperate, allowing them to follow the doctor's treatment principles;
"Relieving them of their suffering"—alleviating the patient's worries, anxieties, tension, and fear. This also tells us that even for patients with bad tempers, we should sincerely persuade and advise them. It is evident that the ancients highly valued the role of language in resolving patients' emotional and mental problems.

Language possesses immense power, acting on a person's psychology and physiology through the brain. Language enables the expression of a wide range of emotions and desires, and the transmission of various thoughts, instructions, and information to others.

As long as a person is conscious, they are constantly interacting with language. When they hear good news or recall pleasant things, they smile, feel happy, and are invigorated; conversely, when they hear bad news or recall disheartening events, they frown, feel heavy-hearted, listless, anxious, and distressed; especially when they receive the devastating news of the death of a loved one, they may even be overcome with grief and go into shock. This demonstrates the profound influence of language.

Pavlov's student, Bekov, once recorded the small intestinal motility of a patient. He patted the patient's intestines onto a recording device, and then the doctor told the patient, "I've prepared chicken soup for you; it will be ready in a few minutes." When the doctor added, "The chicken soup is very hot, you can wait a moment," the small intestine's movement intensified. This shows that when the patient heard "chicken soup," the characteristics of the thing or phenomenon represented by the language, along with the language itself, acted on the body. In another instance, under hypnosis, someone gives the hypnotized person a glass of plain water and suggests, "You are drinking a sweet and delicious beverage," which elicits satisfaction and happiness from the hypnotized person. Tests show that the percentage of sugar in the hypnotized person's blood also increases accordingly. This demonstrates that although language is merely a combination of sounds, and its energy in itself is negligible, under certain conditions, it can have the same effect as directly influencing the objective thing or phenomenon it represents.

The influence of language on people can be good and positive, or bad and negative. The negative influence of language manifests in its ability to disrupt and damage people's lives. Language can disrupt normal psychological and physiological states, leading to psychological or physiological dysfunction. Many symptoms of neurosis, especially hysteria, are caused by verbal suggestion. Furthermore, iatrogenic diseases are often caused by careless speech or negative verbal suggestions from medical personnel.

The positive influence of language on people manifests in its ability to clarify concepts, build confidence, stabilize emotions, and transform negative psychology into positive psychology, thereby positively impacting bodily physiological activities.