Everyone is afraid of getting sick
Some anxiously suspicious people poison their lives with constant fear of catching a terrible infection, finding a tumor, becoming a cripple and perishing.
Professional intimidators from huge pharmaceutical and medical corporations specifically advertise diseases - as old as the world and modern, recently discovered - viruses.
To get sick - from ancient times meant to become an outcast beggar; to this day we say: "shy away, as if from the plague," "shy away, as if I were a leper."
The fear of illness haunted many famous people, turning into a real illness itself.
As a child, Mayakovsky lost his father, who died from blood poisoning due to an absurd accident: he filed documents, pricked his finger with a rusty needle and got a fatal infection. Throughout his life, the poet carried soap with him in a tin box and washed his hands after any handshake. He also carried with him an individual folding cup. Mayakovsky constantly measured his temperature, tormented his loved ones with complaints of poor health, always suspected he had the most terrible and incurable diseases. He was a strong young man of athletic build, and did not fall ill with anything serious, but simply committed suicide with a pistol shot in the heart at the age of 37. He tried to do this much earlier, so that the horror of illness and the game with death seem surprisingly contradictory at first glance.
The second suicide and alcohol-dependent personality type is Sergei Yesenin. He suspected he had throat consumption, was terribly afraid of even an occasional pimple, mistaking it for symptoms of syphilis, and meanwhile, in his early youth, he tried to poison himself with vinegar essence … He went to consultations with professors, shared his worries and suspicions with friends - and drank terribly, fatally self-destruct.
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All his life Gogol was afraid for his health, considered himself terminally ill, in letters to friends he described how he went to the toilet, listed all his pains and sufferings - and at a young age starved himself to death, "fasted" to death.
The humorist writer Mikhail Zoshchenko, an extremely intelligent and educated man, wrote to his wife in besieged Leningrad letters from the evacuation, in which he continually complained of illness. He, of course, helped his family, but the fear of illness was so strong that the writer lost his criticism, became fixated on his condition to the point of selfishness.
The famous artist of the Soviet era Savely Kramarov was very afraid for his health; he led an exceptionally healthy lifestyle, ate only healthy food, like sprouted grains, unlike most artists, he did not drink or smoke, did physical education and yoga - and still fell ill with intestinal cancer, from which he died in the prime of life, despite the best and most expensive treatment.
In the 16th century, a terrible plague epidemic broke out. People in horror awaited the approach of the "black death", if someone fell ill, he could not count on the help of neighbors and relatives - the door to the house was hammered and they did not bring any food or drink to the sick in order to avoid spreading the infection. And Mortus in terrible costumes with special hooks dragged the dead and still living plague victims to the common graves.
At this terrible time, the doctor Michel Nostradamus went to the homes of the sick and treated the victims of the plague with rose petals. Many have recovered. Now scientists are important to explain that, they say, there is a lot of ascorbic acid in rose petals, in "ascorbic acid" is very useful. Especially, apparently, with the plague. And how many of these petals did you need to eat in order to get at least a daily rate of this most healing vitamin? In fact, Dr. Nostradamus inspired people with confidence and calmness, raised their spirit with sympathy and kindness. His own family died in full while he was "out of the epidemic." Nostradamus himself did not get sick, although he did not use any disinfectants and communicated directly with patients.
In 1811, Napoleon visited the plague barracks to cheer up sick soldiers. In the conditions of quarantine, among sick and dying people, he fearlessly and with great dignity provided, as we now say, psychological assistance to the victims. And at the same time he spoke something like Churchill's words; we, they say, have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Many modern researchers come to the conclusion that most of the victims of epidemics did not die from harmful bacteria and viruses. They fell prey to panic, a terrible state of fear and despair; their immunities refused to work due to unbearable terror and a sense of doom. A similar conclusion was reached by the famous extreme traveler Henri Bombard, who all alone crossed the ocean on a flimsy boat. Note - no food and drink supplies. He lost 20 kilograms, damaged his kidneys, because he drank salt water, but did not get sick or die.
“Oh, victims of shipwrecks! It was not hunger that killed you, it was not thirst that caused your death, it was not the scorching sun that brought you to the other world. You died of fear! - so he said, barely recovering from his journey.
The famous German professor argued with Louis Pasteur about Vibrio cholerae, which this same Pasteur discovered. It was at a meeting of the Academy of Sciences in the 19th century, the times were quite civilized, so all scientists listened with interest to the scientific dispute of their brilliant colleagues. No one could have thought that a professor who did not believe in vibrios would grab a test tube teeming with them and instantly swallow its contents in order to clearly, through his own experience, prove that Pasteur was wrong! Pasteur was absolutely right, a terrible disease is really caused by this pathogen, which swarmed in a fatal test tube. Most interestingly, the stubborn old professor did not get sick. He lived for a very long time and shot himself at the age of 95, “in fear of impending decrepitude,” as his biographers write.
These days, fearless stubborn people continue to demonstrate amazing things. Back in 1993, American doctor Robert Wilner injected himself with HIV-infected blood to prove that AIDS is not contagious! The desperate doctor did not get sick, he was so sure that nothing would happen to him. And it never happened. With regard to AIDS, molecular biologist, Professor Peter Duesberg, author of the book “Fictional Virus” writes: “One has only to convince everyone that this is a deadly disease, and half of humanity will die out. From fear and despair. Really, it is very similar to the statement of the traveler Bombar?
All these stories prove to us once again how much the state of mind is related to a person's ability to resist disease.
“We should be surprised not that we are sick, but that we remain healthy,” writes doctor and psychologist Stanislav Pek. By the way, he became interested in psychology when he encountered an amazing fact. Peck was an ordinary village doctor when an epidemic of infectious meningitis broke out in his village. The doctor conscientiously took tests from all residents and was horrified to see that almost all of them were infected. However, only 7 people fell ill - those who had serious emotional experiences. The others did not even know that death was so close.
Professionally and personally, I met with a large number of people who fought: the Patriotic War, Afghanistan, Chechnya and other hot spots. These participants in real battles often said that it was not desperate daredevils, not "normal soldiers" who died in the first place, but those who were terribly afraid. Fear weakened their psychological defenses, made them more vulnerable.