The Social Role of Health

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The Social Role of Health

I sit here thinking about many things that impact on health and well-being.  Health is an individual goal that each of us is required to travel alone.  The people you bring along to help you are only there is assist; they cannot live your health for you.  This means any doctor you choose to see is there to assist you but you must take an active role in your own health by asking questions and participating in your own recovery or rehabilitation.

I don’t think you can have a good sense of health if you do not have a satisfying amount of social interaction. 
What does that mean? 
Sorry for the cop-out in this answer but I can’t tell you – one person’s satisfying amount of interaction is another person’s loneliness or being crushed by attention.
I think we have all heard the definition of how an extrovert differs from an introvert:  the company of others wears out an introvert while being around others energizes an extrovert. 
In life, we have learned that we are all a little of both, it all depends on who that company is.  This is the same thing with social interaction – we all need it at times and we all need to be away from it at times and be by ourselves. The deciding factor is for what is the right amount depends who, what, and how much with a specific person and this is our personal issue.
A bad marriage is not better than any marriage at all: it will stress you and make you want to have a short life.  An unasked for divorce will do the same, the idea of being rejected by someone we decided to commit the rest of our lives to can make a healthy person sick with illness.  Unfortunately, a bad marriage that shouldn’t last can be coupled with a divorce (no matter how much it is necessary) that was unasked for.
While I have often preached “you must never let a person, place, or thing be the source of your emotional highs and lows” it is hard to really live that philosophy, no matter how much it is important to embrace it when it was that person, place, or thing is what kept us going.

Sometimes a person is a source of our emotional highs and lows and sometimes it is necessary to uncouple from someone for your own health.  We can only suppose that this is so that if we choose to couple again, that relationship will be healthier for us.

What if that person place, or thing leaves us without being able to return.  Here I am talking about death.  I loved my dogs (The Leos – there was Leo I who was replaced by Leo II, and then by Leo III).  Those dogs were my companions while I grew up and I learned how to be a better person from them.  Dogs live and then dogs die.  Their loss is inside me forever.

Even in their deaths there was meaning.  Leo II was too ill to live and my brother had to make the decision to end it for him.  Love does mean letting go.

My mother died of Alzheimer’s disease, already in a medical coma that she could not come back from.  My family had to decide to let her go.  Again, love means letting go.

A dog and a mother – how can Dr. Lane be so stupid to equate the two?  Do you love a dog that you have for (if you are lucky) 15 years more than a mother who gave birth and raised you?  Certainly, you don’t love him less.

My mother was good for me and she was good to me, the Leos were also good for me and good to me.  Each gave to me and each received from me and I will miss them all for all my life but everything has an end date.

Count ourselves lucky that we find people to love and be loved by – they make us healthy.


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Relentless stress is hard on you in many ways.

It affects how developing immune cells are expressed, even before they’re sent out of the bone marrow (that’s where they’re manufactured) and into your bloodstream. And what’s the expression they adopt? Pro-inflammatory (they’re professionals at revving up trouble). That makes you vulnerable to everything from mood swings and heart disease to autoimmune conditions and even cancer. Plus, stress turns on other pro-inflammatory genes, making it the greatest ager of all! 

You can de-stress both in the short term and in the long run. 

Short-term solutions? Sweat, breathe hard, burn off stress hormones with exercise, walking (10,000 steps a day is the best), sex, you get the idea. Soak in a warm tub with Epsom salts. Relaxing your muscles helps relax the mind. Go for 10 minutes of mindful meditation. Relaxing the mind helps relax the body. Do these stress-busters daily. 

Long term? Identify your stress triggers and get help defusing them — talk with a therapist, your family or other advisers. Write out options that would help you unwind. Plot a course of action, and act on it. Then plan for fun! Make time for friends, hobbies, a good book and loved ones in your weekly routine. We can’t stress enough just how important this is to your long, healthy, younger life. 

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