Bad relationships may hurt the heart: study

Bad relationships may hurt the heart: study

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Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday.

What it likely boils down to is stress - a well-known contributor to health problems, as well as a potential byproduct of troubled relationships, the scientists said.

In a study of 9,011 British civil servants, most of them married, those with the worst close relationships were 34 per cent more likely to have heart attacks or other heart trouble

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As if I didn't already know this. Nice to see it backed up by scientific studies, though.

I have to show this story to my ex. To be fair, I had high blood pressure before I met her (probably from my previous gf, lol). It has gone through the roof since, though.

The divorce didn't help much either, seeing as we are still living together (in separate rooms, of course) in order to take proper care of our son.

I honestly don't think I can blame my physiological problems on anyone else. I have to own my stress, or I will never overcome it. One thing is for sure, she will never cop to being responsible for it (or anything else for that matter)!

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yep I would have thought it was fairly obvious, but it is nice to get scientific acknowledgment.

but it's not just "bad relationship" that hurt the heart, so does fear, hate, sadness... I think all emotions affect the heart in ways not yet scientifically proven. Like they said "Stress" all those things cause stress and stress hurts us physically.

I agree.

Conversely (inversely?), good relationships, love, laughter, and fine times are all tonics for heart health. That's what I am trying to do now; learn to live in the blessings of life and greet each challenge as an opportunity to achieve greater peace rather than an invitation to engage in spiritual warfare.

Its interesting to think that if we are affected physically by emotions, social interactions and stress that we have a lot more potential then we give ourselves credit for. For instance, our subconscious mind is affecting us physically, so it is possible eventually to tap into that and control our physical well-being by thought.

Anyways, its something I notice frequently. When I feel like my relationships are lacking or painful I get sick literally. Right before my divorce with my ex-husband I got a serious stomach condition. Right after we seperated I miraculously healed and felt rejuvenated.

Yes, this is soo true. That's why you hear of people dying from a "broken heart". The stress and depression affects the whole body.

That is why it is so important to be careful about whom we form primary partnerships with. Mutual and equitable growth and benefit are necessary ingredients. The whole interaction created is then greater than the sum of its parts.

There is so much fear and anger and dysfunction out there, it is very hard not to get caught up in toxic relationships. Maybe I just need to find somebody with compatible faults to mine, or somebody enlightened enough to know that being hyper-critical of everyone else is just a way of not dealing with one's own shortcomings.