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Broken Heart Induced Illness:The Disease Of Modern Times

BROKEN HEART INDUCED ILLNESS: THE DISEASE OF MODERN TIMES

Right from birth, begins the development of body and human brain. Gradually the growing child is able to comprehend the situation and tries to give it some meaning. He tries to feel, respond. He learns to identify himself not only with self, but also with others. He weeps when not cared for or responded but feels happy on the acceptance of his actions. Thus, in the process he learns the feelings and emotions and tries to behave accordingly. This leads to development of his heart. The individual tries to interpret his thought in terms of 'heart'. With the passage of time, that becomes a part of the individual and gets reflected in his behavior. If he gets whatever he desires he fells overjoyed and if he fails, he feels disappointed. He develops ‘Looking Glass Self' (concept of Cooley) in which he puts himself at the position of others and views his own successes, failures and personality.

Every individual tastes successes and failures in life. The success normally overshadows the failures and the individual is not much affected by the failures which may not have any impact on the personality of the individual. However, owing to the growth of individual from a child to a mature person, process of socialization, due to various factors such as social, cultural, religious, political, economic, psychological and factors such as print media and mass media that effect the individual both positively and negatively, the effect of failures on individuals may become more powerful than his successes. The some kind of balance of success and failure in the life makes what we call as normal human beings. This is a part of any individual's development and this is true for almost all the individuals. However, what leads to destruction in life of an individual when failures overpower the successes, individual feels so much depressed, disgusted in life that he may feel totally alienated. This is more true in case of...