In recent years, the incidence of thyroid cancer has increased year by year, and patients' emotional and psychological problems have received more and more attention. Modern medicine believes that the occurrence of thyroid cancer is not only related to heredity, environment, hormone levels, etc., but also closely related to bad emotions and stress overload.
Although there is no clear scientific evidence of a direct cause-and-effect relationship between emotions and stress and thyroid cancer, stress and emotional problems are often considered as possible risk factors and included in prevention measures.
Thyroid disease is called "gall disease" in traditional Chinese medicine and is a type of emotional disease. According to the understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, when people persist in negative emotions, thyroid disease may be induced, and even thyroid cancer may occur. "Treatise on the Causes and Symptoms of Diseases: Gall Symptoms" states that "galls are caused by worries and anger qi knots", indicating that emotional factors play an important role in the onset of thyroid disease.
Preventing cancer is a complex task, and there is currently no absolutely effective means to completely prevent the occurrence of cancer. However, emotional and psychological factors can affect an individual's cancer risk and quality of life to some extent. Emotional stability and mental health can help people achieve better physical and mental balance and reduce the risk of cancer.
Thyroid cancer patients should learn to manage their emotions by starting from the following three aspects:
Understand the disease: Appropriately increasing your understanding of thyroid cancer will help change misconceptions about the disease and relieve anxiety.
Seek support: After becoming ill, patients become emotionally fragile. What they need most is understanding, support and care from relatives, friends, colleagues, etc. If you find that your negative emotions cannot be relieved, you need to seek help from a psychological professional in time.
Proper exercise: Choose some exercise methods that suit you, such as jogging, swimming, Tai Chi, Baduanjin, etc. These exercises can not only strengthen your body, but also please your body and mind, regulate your breath, and soothe your emotions. Yu Fei (Chief Physician and Professor, Thyroid Disease Research Center, Tenth People's Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University)
Xinmin Evening News