{"id":24065,"date":"2020-04-19T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/fear-more-harmful-than-coronavirus-itself-says-dak\/"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:25:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:55:02","slug":"fear-more-harmful-than-coronavirus-itself-says-dak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=24065","title":{"rendered":"Fear more harmful than coronavirus itself, says DAK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>\u201cFear is putting people at greater risk of developing physical and mental health issues,\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Srinagar:<\/strong> With people in Kashmir valley under constant fear of the novel (new) coronavirus, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday said fear is taking a heavy toll on people\u2019s heath than the virus itself.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFear is putting people at greater risk of developing physical and mental health issues,\u201d said DAK President Dr Nisar ul Hassan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFear causes stress and when we are stressed the hormones cortisol and adrenaline increase and they suppress the effectiveness of the immune system. The suppression of immune system leaves the body vulnerable to disease and infection,\u201d he said.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nisar said if you have intact immune system, you will get over the novel virus, but with fear you are at risk of developing a severe disease.<br \/>\u201cWith weakened immunity, you are also susceptible to other viral and bacterial infections,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nisar said studies have shown that stress increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes. \u201cThe stress hormones narrow the blood vessels, and make the blood stickier and thicker and increases the likelihood of blood clotting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said adding that \u201cstress makes other risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nisar said we are seeing lot of functional gastrointestinal disorders like irritable bowel syndrome nowadays, and stress is the factor. He said there has been a tremendous aggravation in people with preexisting mental health issues like anxiety and depression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have found a high rate of relapse of mental health issues in patients who were completely cured and were off medicine.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven those without any history of mental health issues have started suffering from anxiety, restlessness and sleep disorders,\u201d he added.<br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have seen people coming with respiratory problems, though their lung functions are perfectly normal. The delusion of being infected is leading to respiratory issues &#8211; which is psychological,\u201d said Dr Nisar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFear is putting people at greater risk of developing physical and mental health issues,\u201d Srinagar: With people in Kashmir valley under constant fear of the novel (new) coronavirus, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) on Sunday said fear is taking a heavy toll on people\u2019s heath than the virus itself. \u201cFear is putting people at greater risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}