Maybe your pet peeves are around social media, your family, friends or at work. We likely all have one for every area in our life. But these are just not healthy for us. If you make a list of your top ten common pet peeves and slowly evaluate them, you will realize the effect they have on your body. Certain pet peeves can cause things such as anxiety, fear, anxiousness and sometimes anger. Small irritations can cause and accumulate into real problems.When we allow small, relatively inconsequential but frequent sources of annoyance to upset us, it can set up a nasty chain of negative events. We can try to ignore our angry reaction to a pet peeve, but once the stress response to that trigger kicks in, cortical-function shutdown takes over. Our perception narrows, the body pumps adrenaline and cortisol, and we go into fight/defensive mode because we feel we’re under attack or that it is out to get us.
""But when it comes to physical and mental health, a tendency to hold in complaints may have negative repercussions, explains Barbara Held, a psychology professor at Bowdoin College. “It’s important to learn how to tell friends and family when you’re upset,” she says. “If you don’t, you end up alone in your pain.” As Pennebaker noted in his therapeutic-writing study, pastresearch has found that suppressing thoughts and feelings is associated with long-term stress and associated health problems."
"In some cases, then, complaining can actually be healthy. “So much of happiness is intentional,” Kowalski says. “We’re not born happy, but we can actively engage in activities that make us feel good.” Similarly, she says, a complaint can be a means of control: “A positive outcome is more up to you than you may think.”
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