Does despair increase the risk of high blood pressure? A positive mindset is the best medicine.
Avoid feelings of despair: In real life, some patients, upon discovering elevated blood pressure, experience excessive psychological burden and extreme emotional instability, becoming constantly worried. This results in persistently high blood pressure and a worsening of their condition. Some patients easily become negative and depressed, unwilling to take medication on time or cooperate with non-pharmacological treatments, awaiting their "final fate." Others, due to temporary unsatisfactory blood pressure reduction, lose faith in treatment, becoming anxious and avoiding medical attention.
Research has found that if a person experiences feelings of despair, their chances of developing hypertension are three times higher than those who are hopeful about life. Researchers analyzed over 600 people with hypertension and found that, like other factors affecting hypertension such as obesity and lack of physical activity, feelings of despair are a contributing factor. The study also found that despair has a more severe impact on the heart than depression. Furthermore, despair is a precursor to myocardial infarction.
In fact, patients with hypertension should realize that although there is currently no cure for hypertension and it requires long-term treatment, if they can avoid increasing their psychological burden, change their lifestyle, and cooperate with family, friends and medical staff for active care and treatment on the basis of self-regulation, the condition can still be controlled and complications can be prevented or reduced.
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