Healing Hemorrhoids – Can Your Personality Make a Difference?

Healing Hemorrhoids – Can Your Personality Make a Difference?

Can stress contribute to hemorrhoids? Are certain personality types more prone to hemorrhoid symptoms? You bet. Your personality, digestive and immune systems are closely connected - more than you can imagine.

Certain personalities are more likely to suffer from imbalances in their digestive system, which in turn affects their immune system and the functioning of many different organs of the body.

In some cases, understanding the personality of the hemorrhoid patient can be very helpful in helping that person heal from hemorrhoids. Most people are familiar with the effects of stress on their digestive system. It can range from butterflies in the stomach to constipation or diarrhea. Some people's stomachs become so knotted under stress that they don't feel hungry and can't eat. Others feel extreme hunger and cannot stop themselves from eating. However it manifests itself, it's hard to deny the connection between emotions and the digestive system.

Additionally, so-called Type A personalities—those prone to competitive, aggressive, and ambitious behaviors—are also more likely to develop digestive disorders, including hemorrhoids. Aside from the effects of nervous tension on the organs of the body, these types of personalities often rush to eat, gulping down their food and being eager to move on to other things.

As a result, their stomachs are unable to properly digest nutrients and have to work much harder to move food through the system. This puts unnecessary pressure on all of the body's organs. Tight abdominal muscles put pressure on the contents of the colon, potentially leading to constipation, stomach and colon pain, and hemorrhoids.

Anxious, competitive personalities are also more prone to high-fat, low-fiber fast foods - less time eating means more time doing all the other things they want to do. All of this is bad news for hemorrhoid sufferers—unless you know that you need to make some simple changes to your diet and eating habits to offset these effects.

Over the past 25 years of counseling hemorrhoids, I have noticed a strong connection between eating habits and hemorrhoids. The good news is that these habits can be easily reversed and hemorrhoids can be cured. To cure hemorrhoids if the above applies to you, it is important to take time to sit down and eat slowly and on time. Just chewing your food enough before swallowing it can take a lot of the strain off your digestive system.

I know from experience that suggesting to hyperactive hemorrhoids that they need to learn to relax is easier said than done. However, there are some very effective, clinically tested natural treatments that can help support enzyme function in the digestive system. These can help reduce pressure on the colon, thereby reducing the occurrence of hemorrhoids. Of course, relaxation and stress relief help heal hemorrhoids, but a holistic approach will provide relief and results.

Inspired by Janet J Pfeiffer