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Systemic Solutions & Heart Disease

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Living with Heart Disease

If you or a family member is diagnosed with heart disease, your life will change. This page describes heart disease, and information about recognizing and treating common psychological complications of heart disease with systemic coaching.

  1. Heart disease
  2. Arteriosclerosis
  3. Malignant heart disease
  4. Carcinogens and Carcinogenesis
  5. Prevention of heart disease
  6. Psychological Complications of heart disease
  7. Therapeutic Coaching

1. Heart Disease - Risk Factors

If your heart has problems ... your resulting symptoms are called heart disease. Heart disease is a leading cause of death in most countries, and is most common in adults over 45 years old; especially in people who are overweight and/or physically inactive.

The high death rate from heart disease in industrial countries is partly because hygiene, immunization and antibiotics prevent deaths from other causes; and partly because people in industrialized countries eat more meat and fatty food, and exercise less than people in developing countries. Also, family and partnership relationships in industrial countries may be under great stress.

Some relationship risk factors for heart disease are:

  • family entanglements
  • emotional incest (son with mother)
  • emotional incest (daughter with father)
  • promiscuous behavior (multiple sexual partners)
  • abandonment or betrayal of past partners (guilt)
  • power and victim "games" amongst partners (age regression)
  • consequences of abortions (guilt)
  • sexually transmitted diseases (fear)

2. Arteriosclerosis

If the arteries that carry oxygen from your heart to your body thicken and harden, your heart must work harder to pump blood. Arteriosclerosis decreases your blood flow and oxygen to your body. This is commonly called hardening of the arteries, which develops as you age. It is worsened by relationship and work stress and/or by a high-fat diet.

3. Coronary Heart Disease

A common form of arteriosclerosis is coronary artery disease. In this chronic illness, greasy deposits form on the inner walls of arteries and partly block your blood flow. Scar tissue develops, stiffening the walls of your arteries and blood clots may form, called thrombosis, that can partially or totally block an artery. Atherosclerosis can reduce the flow of blood to your heart, brain, kidneys, and legs.

Coronary Heart Disease, If the vessels that supply oxygen-carrying blood to your heart become narrowed, your heart's blood supply is reduced, this has two main consequences: chest pain known as angina pectoris, and heart attack, in which part of your heart dies because of lack of oxygen. Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of death in North America, causing nearly half-million deaths each year.

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Although heart attack symptoms can vary greatly in different people, a heart attack is often described as an intense, crushing chest pain, usually on the left side. This pain may radiate to the person’s neck, jaw and left arm.

The pain of a heart attack is usually more intense and longer lasting than with angina. Other signs of a heart attack include profuse sweating, nausea, and vomiting.

4. Congestive Heart Failure

The final stage of heart disease is heart failure, or congestive heart failure. The heart muscle weakens and cannot pump enough blood to the body. In the early stages of heart failure, the heart muscle may enlarge in an attempt to contract more vigorously, but his enlarged muscle makes the heart inefficient and unable to deliver enough blood to body tissues. A chronic decrease in the circulation of blood to your heart, unless treated, leads to shock and death.

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Shock is characterized by apathy, weakness, shallow breathing, rapid heartbeat, feeble pulse, low blood pressure, and cold and clammy skin. Alertness may be diminished and a person may also faint.

5. Prevention of Heart Disease

Although heart disease is part of aging, many heart disease deaths are preventable. The key risks for coronary heart disease are high blood pressure, cigarette smoking and high blood cholesterol. A healthy lifestyle decreases the chance of heart disease. Some lifestyle choices can greatly reduce the risk of developing heart disease. Not smoking, a healthy diet, and daily exercise reduces heart disease risk.

  • Quitting smoking helps reduce the risk of developing heart disease.
  • A low-fat diet is the next best way to lower the risk of heart disease.
  • A healthy weight and regular exercise lowers heart disease risk.

5a. Treatment of Heart Disease

A low-fat diet is usually prescribed. Physicians may advise you to stop smoking and to exercise regularly. Medications may help blood flow more freely, and prevent blood clots from forming in diseased arteries. Surgery can replace diseased blood vessels with grafts of healthy arteries.

6. Relationship Coaching

The pharmaceutical and electronic wonders of modern medicine have paced a decline in the emotional contact between helping professionals and their patients or clients. Medical doctors often refer to patients as their symptoms - e.g. "Nurse - the liver cancer in room 6 is upset - go check it out". Soulwork coaching can unite people with their world, while solving relationship conflicts, planning problems and "sense of life" issues. (Read about Dr Patch Adams)

  • produces and supports healthy behaviors, such as diet and physical activity
  • provides many possibilities for improving relationships
  • helps people live full lives, promoting emotional well being and life activities
  • helps patients and family members cope with emotional distress

NOTE: Consult a physician regarding the applicability of any opinions or recommendations with respect to heart disease, medical symptoms or medical conditions.

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