Defeating the Six Major Fears of Man part 3

The fear of illness has plagued humans for as long as we exist. If we're sick, we could die. If we die, we could enter the border of death. Humans don't know much about death so they'll fear that. In either event, we fear being ill because we don't want to die or get some painful disease. (Recently I have gotten over mononucleosis, god was that terrible)

About 75% of people who visit physicians for illnesses have fake illnesses that don't even exist. It's been shown that if you think about getting a certain disease, you'll get the symptoms of it without even having it! Imagine that? For centuries upon centuries, "doctors" used to sell magic that would heal patients. The funny thing is, the placebo healed a lot of them!

Isn't it wonderful how crazy the human mind is?

The terrible thing is, playing upon our fear of ill health, patent medicines have made fortune upon fortune. Of course, it shouldn't be illegal to do this, we the consumer just need to brighten up a bit.

A flu epidemic broke out in New York during the world war causing a massive scare. In a attempt to stop people from harming themselves, the mayor asked the magazines to stop reporting about the flu. The miraculous thing was, once the magazines stopped posting about the flu, the epidemic ended within a month.

A few studies found out that people could become ill upon suggestion. What did they do? When they'd interview people, they'd ask the people what ailed them. The crazy thing was, the people were healthy.. Until asked what ailed them by three people. It progressively got worst with each person asking.


Symptoms and Signs of Fear of Illness


Autosuggestion
The habit to always think you'll get sick or will end up sick after doing something. Attempting to use quack methods to heal your illnesses but end up being worse off.


Hypochondria
The habit of talking about illnesses, concentrating on illnesses, and expecting for a illness to come about after being nervous. Only positive thought can truly cure a fake illness so try to stay positive. Hypochondria is expected to cause as much damage as a real illness.


Exercise
After worrying about getting a certain disease, one may stop working out and end up becoming overweight.


Susceptibility
Fear of being ill will break down your ability to fight off a disease. This is somewhat like hypochondria and will make you get sick if you don't become positive.


Here's the list! I'm sure that you've caught the drift of the article and understand that you positivity in order to stay healthy! If positivity doesn't keep you healthy, go to the hospital. However, there's no reason to go over minor things of mind made things.

Part four will go over the topic of the Fear of Lost Love. I'm sure that you'll love that! Get the irony? Haha.m