If there are people in your home, family, office who constantly give you mental stress and always talk negative things, then it has a direct impact on your health. Because of such toxic people in your life, you can also grow old quickly. This claim has been made in an international research. This research states that toxic relationships and the company of people who cause constant stress affect both your mental and physical health. This research has been published in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal.
According to research, if there are people around a person who continuously cause mental stress and talk negatively, then it affects his life. biological age (Biological Age). This simply means that a person may start looking or feeling older than his actual age. Along with this, he is also at risk of many types of diseases.
This is how research was done
In this study, scientists have done research on 2600 people. In this, research was done on people’s relationships. He has been asked how is the behavior of the people around him. The purpose of this research was to understand how people’s relationships affect their body and mind.
Research revealed that about 30 percent people admitted that there is at least one person in their life who always gives them mental stress and also talks negatively. In research, these people have been called Hassler. These people always cause mental stress to others in their lives.
How does mental stress affect the body?
Dr. AK Vishwakarma of the Department of Psychiatry in the District Hospital of Ghaziabad.It is said that if anyone living around you continuously gives you mental stress, then our brain again and again goes into fight or flight mode. In this situation the body always remains alert, as if some danger is in front. If this continues for a long time, it has a deep impact on the body and the aging process can accelerate. This not only increases biological age but also increases the risk of many diseases.
How does biological age increase?
Scientists also took saliva samples of the people involved in the research and examined their DNA. Through this, it is found out how fast a person’s biological age is increasing. Research has revealed that the biological age can increase by about 1.5 percent in those people in whose relationships there was a person who caused mental stress.
These effects can affect health
having frequent headaches
insomnia or very little sleep
feeling tired all the time
to be irritable
trouble concentrating on work
having stomach problems