Emotional intelligence

Emotions

The problem is when

medical personnel Historically, medicine in modern society
ignore how patients are has defined its mission in terms of
reacting emotionally, curing disease —the
even while medical disorder—while overlooking
attending to their illness —the patient's experience of
Mind and Medecine
physical condition. disease.
Our emotions—and emotional intelligence—play a part in health and disease.

People's emotional That attitude is

states can play a reinforced by a medical
sometimes significant model that dismisses
role in their entirely the idea that
vulnerability to disease mind influences body in
and in the course of any consequential way.
their recovery.

Panick Anger

Chronic Feelings TOXIC EMOTIONS Anxiety

Depression Stress

Solitude is not the same as isolation; many people who live on

The Medical their own or see few friends are content and healthy.
There was no relationship whatever between high stress
Value of
levels and death rate.
Relationships
The Healing Power of Emotional Support