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07-11-2011, 10:46 AM
By Blair Justice
Psychologist David McClelland of Harvard acknowledges that “we don’t have any idea about how love aids the lymphocytes and improves the immune system, but evidence strongly suggests it does.” Bernie Siegel MD a professor of surgery at Yale medical School, who has been a practicing surgeon for more than 30 years, predicts that “someday we will understand the physiological and psychological workings of LOVE well enough to turn on its full force more reliably. Once it is scientific, it will be accepted.”
In long-term studies of diabetes conducted by Lawrence Hinkle and Stewart Wolf, (then at Cornell), a sense of helplessness and hopelessness was linked with the disorder.
Hinkle and Wolf traced the ups and downs of a 17-year-old school girl who was diagnosed as having diabetes when she was 10. Early stresses in the child’s life-rejected by mother, spoiled by older sister, starting school, moving three times-all could be correlated with bouts of illness and bodily changes finally culminating in the diabetes diagnosis at 10.
After the diagnosis, episodes of ketosis and coma could be linked with the girl’s hopeless attitude toward stressful situations that came up. She had to be admitted to the hospital 12 times over five years for diabetic acidosis and coma. These admissions came after fights between her parents, arguments with her mother, changing to a new school and the departure of her sister (“the only one who loved me”).
The doctors asked her to keep a diary of daily events and her accompanying feelings about situations. Every two weeks they reviewed these and checked her condition. Her insulin dose was maintained throughout. Hinkle and Wolf had already noted that diabetic flare-ups could often occur despite careful regulation of the patient’s diet, insulin and physical activity.
This point was dramatically illustrated during one of the hospital stays of the girl. Although her diet, insulin and activity were being closely monitored, she had a marked change in her condition after a visit from her mother. She perceived her mother as being extremely angry with her and also believed that her physician (her “only” friend) was also angry. Although she became increasingly anxious and depressed, she was unable to express her feelings.
Tests showed that she was losing large amounts of glucose in her urine and that ketones, were rising sharply. She also has a rapid heart rate, dry mouth and skin. However, once she was assured that her mother was not angry with her and that her physician was still her friend, her ketosis and other symptoms all disappeared without additional treatment.
By Blair Justice
Psychologist David McClelland of Harvard acknowledges that “we don’t have any idea about how love aids the lymphocytes and improves the immune system, but evidence strongly suggests it does.” Bernie Siegel MD a professor of surgery at Yale medical School, who has been a practicing surgeon for more than 30 years, predicts that “someday we will understand the physiological and psychological workings of LOVE well enough to turn on its full force more reliably. Once it is scientific, it will be accepted.”
In long-term studies of diabetes conducted by Lawrence Hinkle and Stewart Wolf, (then at Cornell), a sense of helplessness and hopelessness was linked with the disorder.
Hinkle and Wolf traced the ups and downs of a 17-year-old school girl who was diagnosed as having diabetes when she was 10. Early stresses in the child’s life-rejected by mother, spoiled by older sister, starting school, moving three times-all could be correlated with bouts of illness and bodily changes finally culminating in the diabetes diagnosis at 10.
After the diagnosis, episodes of ketosis and coma could be linked with the girl’s hopeless attitude toward stressful situations that came up. She had to be admitted to the hospital 12 times over five years for diabetic acidosis and coma. These admissions came after fights between her parents, arguments with her mother, changing to a new school and the departure of her sister (“the only one who loved me”).
The doctors asked her to keep a diary of daily events and her accompanying feelings about situations. Every two weeks they reviewed these and checked her condition. Her insulin dose was maintained throughout. Hinkle and Wolf had already noted that diabetic flare-ups could often occur despite careful regulation of the patient’s diet, insulin and physical activity.
This point was dramatically illustrated during one of the hospital stays of the girl. Although her diet, insulin and activity were being closely monitored, she had a marked change in her condition after a visit from her mother. She perceived her mother as being extremely angry with her and also believed that her physician (her “only” friend) was also angry. Although she became increasingly anxious and depressed, she was unable to express her feelings.
Tests showed that she was losing large amounts of glucose in her urine and that ketones, were rising sharply. She also has a rapid heart rate, dry mouth and skin. However, once she was assured that her mother was not angry with her and that her physician was still her friend, her ketosis and other symptoms all disappeared without additional treatment.
By Blair Justice