Question: There are people who have great strength to face very difficult or painful situations in life while others, like me, are very vulnerable. Is there any possible physical explanation for this? Thank you.
Javier M. Losadi, from Pilar.
Personality is the result of the interaction of psychological, physical, social and cultural factors.
The term vulnerable refers to
a person who can be physically or psychologically harmed.
Therefore, there may be many causes that lead an individual to be vulnerable, but
some are a consequence of their own personality and many others of social
, economic, political, educational or cultural factors.
Therefore, this answer will be limited to explaining only some physical factors, which does not imply ruling out the relevance of the others.
In 1929, Leopold Levy published
Temperament and its Disorders
, where
he explained the differences in temperament between men and women and attributed it to hormones.
The author affirmed that the woman is "in a state of relative insufficiency of the adrenal glands, which justifies her fatigability and her lower energy."
Levy explained the temperament differences between women and men and attributed it to hormones.
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Conversely,
the "increased function of their thyroid explains in them their artistic taste and delicacy
of spirit, but also their nervousness and emotionality that leads to anguish."
Man, by having a “more active adrenal gland, has greater energy
and a firmer will;
he is less nervous, but also less delicate”.
The influence of hormones
And it was found that hormones always influence mood, behavior and personality.
It is valid to wonder why there are people who resist tragedies, traumas, catastrophes, abuses, while others are more vulnerable and
cannot overcome similar or minor events, they live suffering
and have a poor quality of life.
Today, neuroscience indicates that vulnerable people have
an easy reactivation of the so-called traumatic memory,
which makes the memories that they damaged reappear.
DHEA is another key hormone to strengthen the body in the face of stress, protect cardiovascular fitness and lower high cholesterol levels.
Norberto Abdala, psychiatrist
It is an involuntary, unconscious and automatic mechanism that
weakens the individual and, despite himself, conditions him and makes him prone to suffering states of anguish
, fear, panic or depression.
And here it is worth mentioning some hormones.
A very important one is cortisol, which
in the face of any traumatic situation increases its production in order to face and overcome complicated situations.
Under normal conditions, once they have passed, it returns to its normal values.
The problem is generated when this return mechanism does not work properly and its level remains high,
as if the original traumatic factor was still in force.
The consequence is to suffer negative and painful emotions.
Testosterone levels below normal cause poor sexual activity.
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Testosterone goes the other way: it decreases in a traumatic situation and normalizes after it.
But in some people this does not happen and continues at levels below normal.
This explains why many men are left with less mental concentration, physical decay
and poor sexual activity.
DHEA is another key hormone to strengthen the body in the face of stress, protect cardiovascular fitness
and lower high cholesterol levels.
Whenever there is long-lasting emotional suffering, it is convenient to know the levels of these hormones in order to normalize them
appropriately
, if necessary, and thus attenuate traumatic memory.
MS
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