The great evils of modern life, anxiety and depression, are making their devastating effects more and more noticeable. And we already know how difficult it is to escape both anxiety disorders and depression, but today they constitute two of the most insistent enemies of our health, leading to the appearance of diseases, aggravating existing ones and increasing the mortality. Patients suffering from cardiovascular diseases are the main victims of depression and anxiety, but no one is free from the consequences of these emotional disorders from which it is so difficult to get out.
The danger of anxiety and depression
- A study from Duke University (USA) has revealed data on the dangers that depression and anxiety have on patients with cardiovascular diseases such as ischemic heart disease and heart failure. It seems that anxiety, combined with depression, triples the mortality of these patients.
- Without getting lost in a tangle of statistical data, the study concludes with the need to treat both anxiety and depression as a priority, which in many cases go together, to avoid complications in existing diseases.
- But it is that depression and anxiety not only act by worsening these cardiovascular diseases, but many others. In addition, there are studies that show a weakening of our immune system when we are depressed or in cases of continuous anxiety, which leaves us without protection against new diseases.
Protect yourself against anxiety and depression
- Therefore, it is vitally important to focus all our efforts on staying away from a serious anxiety disorder that leads to depression with dire consequences for our health. Of course, there is no magic formula to avoid falling into this type of ailment.
- But we can do something in the way of improving our attitude towards life and problems. Finding a way to strengthen ourselves emotionally to be happier without being attacked by nostalgia, apathy and decay, involves surrounding ourselves with positive people who fill us with affection and moving away from toxic people.
- It is also essential to lead a healthy lifestyle, which includes a balanced diet, physical exercise and a lot of sociability. But above all, what makes us stronger and protects us against depression is maintaining the ability to dream, hope and smile.