Emotions are human experiences arising from events around them that have a positive or negative connotation. Very strong emotional experiences are dangerous to humans.
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Emotional experiences manifest themselves in different ways. Joy and fun cause motor excitement, acceleration of mental processes, a sense of vitality and energy. With negative emotions, a psychomotor delay appears, slow perception. Not only negative emotions can be dangerous. Any unbalanced emotional experiences can cause various pathologies.
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Among the types of emotions, weak in strength - moods and feelings, and strong - affects and passions, as well as negative - stresses are distinguished. Man is practically unable to control emotions and passions. These are violent emotional experiences that noticeably affect human physiology.
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Most noticeably strong emotional experiences affect the functioning of the cardiovascular system. No wonder the heart has always been considered the body responsible for feelings. With pronounced emotional experiences, a person’s heart rate slows down or speeds up, his blood pressure decreases or rises, and his vascular tone changes. Such reactions can lead to heart attacks, strokes, hypertensive crises, etc.
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Changes in the functioning of various organs and systems are controlled by the sympathetic nervous system, the excitement of which with strong emotional experiences leads to an adrenaline rush. Adrenaline causes serious changes in the work of many body systems: blood drains from the internal organs, breathing quickens, the functioning of the digestive system slows down, and blood sugar rises. Such reactions can cause diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, nervous system, respiratory system.
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Strong emotional experiences, especially negative and long-term ones, lead to the fact that the body reduces the number of T-lymphocytes that protect the body from viruses and bacteria. Due to a decrease in immunity, a person becomes almost defenseless against various infections.
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Negative emotional experiences affect the mental state of a person. Prolonged stress causes depression, despair, depression, longing, a decrease in self-esteem, etc. In depression, a person experiences guilt, motivation and volitional activity are reduced, lack of initiative, lethargy, and fatigue appear. In this state, a person may have a nervous breakdown, he is able to attempt suicide.