- Unsanitary conditions: massive exposure to germs remains a major factor
- Being poor: poverty degrades life on all fronts, including health.
- High stress: physical and psychological stress damage the immune system.
- Depression and anxiety: untreated psychological disorders weaken resistance to a wide range of diseases, perhaps even cancer
- Lack of coping mechanisms: stress by itself is a negative factor, but the inability to bounce back form it is more important.
- Lack of control, victimization: all stresses become much worse if you feel that you have no control over your own life.
- Inertia, sedentary lifestyle: if you are inactive and have no outside interests, you chance of getting sick rises sharply
- Feeling alone and unloved: emotional deprivation is as unhealthy as deprivation of good food.
- Sudden loss: the sudden loss of a job or spouse, a reversal in finances, or finding yourself in the midst of a war or natural disaster all constitute a state of loss and lead to higher risk of getting sick.
- Growing old: once considered a major cause of illness, aging is now known not to be a direct cause. Being healthy into your 80s should be your expectation, but if you neglect yourself in old age, the body becomes vastly more susceptible to disease.
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By Deepak Chopra, M.D. - Posted on Thu, Feb 21, 2008, 2:37 pm PST
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/deepak/2624/why-people-get-sick/now i'm confused with what to choose for my illness :(
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