The syndrome of the old maiden: how it affects the body
'01.09.2022'
Source: Rambler
As domestic psychologists note, in medicine there is such a professional term as “old maid syndrome” - a long-term mental state of a woman, due to her deliberate detachment from all those joys of life that make up women's happiness and, ultimately, adversely affect health.
Doctors are unanimous: if the syndrome of the old maid is not able to win on their own, you need to contact a psychologist or a psychiatrist, otherwise the health situation will worsen, writes Rambler.
Depression and gynecological problems
Candidate of psychological sciences O. R. Arnold, citing the results of special studies of the state of female loneliness, says that one of the characteristic signs of old maids is chronic depression, often accompanied by neuroses. Often locked in a single woman experiencing constant stress. Since the old maidens, in the opinion of the candidate of psychological sciences Valentina Domborovskaya, in most cases a feeling of aversion, “impurity”, to her own genitals has been formed since childhood, such women often start gynecological diseases in themselves because they fear or consciously do not want to go on doctor's appointment.
Heart disease and dementia
The American therapist Druv Kullar, who published a relatively recent article in the New York Times about the diseases of “socially isolated people”, which include old maidens, argues that the research conducted by his university Brigham Young indicates a rather serious problem in this area - Kullar even called it a "growing epidemic." According to the research of American physicians, old maids, if they could not or did not want to solve their psychological problems before balzakovskogo age, more often than other categories of women suffer from Alzheimer's disease, because their body is more prone to the accumulation of amyloids in organs and tissues.
In addition, due to the increased level of stress hormones in old maids, the risk of cardiovascular diseases increases, they are more likely to develop diabetes, dementia, and are more susceptible to one of the most acute mental illnesses - suicidal syndrome. It is the progressive depression, which characterizes the old girls Moscow psychologist Olga Arnold, American doctors call one of the reasons leading to dementia.
Obesity
American scientists (the institutes of Pittsburgh and San Diego) have studied thousands of old maids and married women for years with the goal of finding out which of the two categories most often meets certain diseases. It turned out that married men have the best cholesterol in their blood, family American women are less prone to being overweight. In addition, scientists have confirmed the findings of their British counterparts that cardiovascular disease is more common in old maidens 13 times.
Cancer and bodily harm
Lee Ross, professor of psychology at Stanford University in the United States, cited data on single American women whose mortality rate is half that of their married peers. In addition, old maids are much more likely to die from cancer, says a social psychologist.
Ross's colleague Jonathan Kellerman calculated in an analysis of focus group research that spinsters are 5 times more likely to be injured and injured as a result of crimes and other incidents committed against them than married women. The psychologist explained this phenomenon by the fact that because of their total loneliness, there is simply no one to take care of old maids, no one protects them from troubles and external threats.
Immune system impairment
This factor, as psychologist Angie Leroy (Rice University of Houston) confirms, contributes to the emergence of a whole bunch of diseases in old maids - from colds to hypertension. Physical inactivity due to a decrease in motor activity is also characteristic of single women. According to Leroy, old maids are more likely to smoke and drink too much, which, in turn, leads to the development of diseases associated with these bad habits.
