PSY 530 Module 6 DQ 2

PSY 530 Module 6 DQ 2

Max Points: 5.0

Are you better off being an optimist (perhaps a Pollyanna) or is it better to be a realist (grounded in reality) as far as your health and well-being are concerned? Why?

Answer:

I am more of a realistic I usually think and act on life’s issues according to to facts presented to me so I am definitely grounded in reality. It is hard for many people to accept what is and wat will be such as old age, stress, declined health, and assured death.What is very important to me is accepting reality and knowing how to deal with a cope with, being optimistic is my personal thought can sometimes be cruel to yourself, living in denial, and in many cases hopeful of something that may never happen. When it comes to reality and my health I tend to deal with the reality concerning my health, I dont think of the fact there maybe a magical answer or cure for my health issues I have a serious medical issues and I know I am going to die from my illness I have accepted that and moving forward and I do not accept false hope so to keep a sane mind I live by reality.

There is more to our physical health than germs and disease—we also need to consider the amount of stress in our lives and how we deal with that stress (Chida & Hamer, 2008; Ganzel, Morris, & Wethington, 2010; Inglehart, 1991; Park, 2010; Segerstrom, 2010; Taylor, 2010). Early research in this area documented some extreme cases in which people’s health was inﬂuenced by stress. Consider these examples, reported by psychologist W. B. Cannon (1942)

For people living with serious illnesses, keeping some form of control has beneﬁts, even when their health is failing. Researchers have found that even when people who are seriously ill with cancer or AIDS felt no control over the disease, many of them believed they could control the consequences of the disease, such as their emotional reactions and some of the physical symptoms of the disease, such as how tired they felt. And the more people felt they could control the consequences of their disease, the better adjusted they were, even if they knew they could not control the eventual course of their illness. In short, it is important to feel in control of something, even if it is not the disease itself. Maintaining such a sense of control is likely to improve one’s psycho-logical well-being, even if one’s health fails (Heckhausen & Schulz, 1995; Morling & Evered, 2006; Thompson, 2002).

Reference:

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