The AIDS fighters by Brighthope Ian & Fitzgerald Peter

Author:Brighthope, Ian & Fitzgerald, Peter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease), Vitamin C, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Vitamins, Self Medication, Sida, Médicaments contre le sida, Vitamine C
Publisher: New Canaan, Conn. : Keats Pub.
Published: 1988-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

PERSONALITY IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR

Personality also appears to play an important role in the development of diseases including heart disease, cancer, auto-immune diseases and allergic disorders.

This is also tnie for the emotions and immune functioning. It therefore behoves the astute, and cautious, individual to pay attention to behavioural intervention at any level of a disease process in order to prevent its development Once a disease has become established, behavioural intervention will improve the prognosis.

There are various ways of conditioning the immune system. These include hypnosis, relaxation therapy and meditation. Meditation appears to have the most profound influences upon physical, mental and spiritual functioning in both the short and the long-term.

EMOTIONAL SUPPORTIVE TREATMENT

It's interesting to see the development of lay support groups for cancer victims and other patients with severe debilitating or terminal diseases. AIDS is no exception.

These groups have years of experience helping the sufferers of various diseases by applying diet, meditative processes and emotional support to their healing.

Several scientific papers (see the bibliography at the end of this book) have been published which show the relationship between one's emotions and the immune system.

These papers prove to be another strong argument for so-called 'whole person' health care -- so pertinent to the AIDS problem. Sadly, it's obvious importance to the AIDS' experts is overlooked in favour of complicated, high-tech solutions ~ so far doomed to failure.

DEPRESSION LOWERS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

Some medical studies on bereavement have shown that many widows, surveyed within six weeks of the death of their spouse, had poorly functioning lymphocytes. Also, the spouses of women dying of breast cancer have been shown to have a reduced immunological capacity and this is a result of the onset of severe depression. In other words, severe depression can induce, or cause, a reduced immune

capacity.

Medical students under stress, at examination time, have been shown to produce fewer antibodies. Another example of the mind's influence

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