How well are you Connected for your Health? | Psych-100 | Chapter 64 | Flourish with Diane Planidin

We need to be Social - It Influences Our Mental and Physical Health

In comparison with those who do not feel that they have a network of others they can rely on, people who feel that they have adequate social support report being happier and have also been found to have fewer psychological problems, including eating disorders and mental illness.

People with social support are less depressed overall, recover faster from negative events, and are less likely to commit suicide. Married people report being happier than unmarried people, and overall, a happy marriage is an excellent form of social support. One of the goals of effective psychotherapy is to help people generate better social support networks because such relationships have such a positive effect on mental health.

In addition to having better mental health, people who have adequate social support are more physically healthy. They have fewer diseases (such as tuberculosis, heart attacks, and cancer), live longer, have lower blood pressure, and have fewer deaths at all ages. Sports psychologists have even found that individuals with higher levels of social support are less likely to be injured playing sports and recover more quickly from injuries they do receive. These differences appear to be due to the positive effects of social support upon physiological functioning, including the immune system.

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