Functional disorders: a feeling of sinking in the heart and atrial pain, short—term fainting of varying depths, angina attacks without any electrocardiographic and anatomical abnormalities – can in some cases lead to death. All these symptoms are often preceded by severe emotional disorders, more often in the form of fear and anger. Psychosomatic diseases are primarily myocardial infarction and chronic arterial hypertension. By the way, scientists believe that hypertension is often associated with a conflict between high social control of behavior and an individual’s unrealized need for power. Let’s consider some personality traits of people suffering from chronic coronary heart disease. It is no coincidence that they speak of “heart excitement”, “heart affection”, “heart attitude”, “trembling in the heart”. All the feelings that a person experiences are reflected in the work of the heart and leave traces on it. Sometimes successful heart surgery does not bring healing because the causes of the disease have not been eliminated. The heart is usually associated with love. The question arises: why does the breakup of a relationship, the loss of a loved one often lead to heart disease? If a mother does not give her child enough warmth, he shows his doll the feelings he would like to feel in his mother. The doll becomes a substitute for a loved one. Some cardiologists suggest that sometimes the heart turns into a symbol of a loved one and all those feelings that for some reason cannot be expressed openly are transferred to it. A person is afraid to show his displeasure to others. A woman does not dare to object to a loved one, and in order to reduce melancholy and avoid depression, she tyrannizes over her own heart, taking out her irritation on it. American scientists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, who studied the characteristics of people with coronary heart disease, found certain behavioral features in them. Cores often belong to the so-called “A” type. People of this type have the highest risk of heart disease. It is usually said that, first of all, elderly people, hypertensive people, tobacco smokers and those with high cholesterol in their blood should be careful. It turns out that behavior is more important than cholesterol. What is type “A”? This is how people behave when they are in constant struggle with the outside world. Their ambition, aggressiveness, belligerence, conflict, impatience, irritability, tendency to rivalry and hostility towards competitors, coexisting with exaggerated politeness, are often caused by stress. Type A behavior is manifested in the fact that a person wants to do as much as possible in the shortest possible time and achieve maximum results. He doesn’t have time all the time. He needs more all the time. He’s always waiting for something. His attention is focused on tomorrow. It is clear that when a person is torn apart by many desires and passions, some of them contradict each other. You have to give up something. Therefore, it is almost impossible to avoid internal conflict. A person with type “A” behavior is unhappy and hard on himself. Such people often do not pay attention to ailments. If necessary, they work even when they don’t feel well. It’s like they don’t know what anxiety is. In fact, this means that their anxiety manifests itself only in a veiled form. For example, in this situation: these people are extremely restless and excitable. Sometimes they lose their temper, behave tactlessly and rudely, and become enraged for no particular reason. In addition to type A behavior, there are type B and type C behaviors. The first is characterized by a free attitude towards the world and people around them, satisfaction with the existing situation and lack of tension. Type C behavior is associated with timidity, stiffness, willingness to accept any twists of fate without any resistance and the constant expectation of new blows and troubles. In the second half of the 1980s, the German scientist Franz Fritschevsky clarified the concept of type “A” and divided it into three subclasses. The first group includes people who are introverted, inhibited, restrained in facial expressions and gestures. They rarely lose their temper, but if they break up, they can’t calm down for a long time. The other group is people who are good at hiding their feelings, but are very nervous inside. The third group is people who are used to violently expressing their attitude to everything that happens. They are sociable, waving their arms, gesticulating, talking loudly and laughing. They often break down, get angry, start swearing, but immediately forget the reason for their anger. Previously, myocardial infarction was called “managers’ disease.” Then it became clear that the heart attack had nothing to do with social status or profession. However, the prevailing mood in society is affecting the increase in the number of heart diseases. Society encourages energetic people like “A” who dream of power and a prestigious position. Source: D.E. Zaitsev Neuropsychiatric Center