Anger On The Brain: Why It’s Bad For Cancer Patients
If you have been touched by cancer and are constantly angry, fearful or obsessed with feelings of grief, it’s time to get some help.
You’re certainly entitled to those feelings. After all, cancer is evil, without question. However, these excessive feelings can hurt you both physically and mentally and it is imperative that you understand why.
Our brain developed the anterior cingulate as a conflict monitor. It is where reason, logic, compassion, imagination and creativity reside. It relies heavily on cognitive and emotional processing in order to help us make decisions, respond to events and create our reality. Intense feelings of anger, fear or grief shut down the activity in the anterior cingulate, producing a thought process that is blameful, pessimistic and defensive. Our judgment is distorted and it becomes nearly impossible to find serenity.
Neuroimaging technology allows us to examine the internal functioning of the brain while the patient is experiencing these feelings. These studies demonstrate that our thoughts and emotions profoundly affect the biology of the brain.
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