Human Self-destruct Sequence in Research & Medicine

The Dangers of Chronic Distress: Are you worried, irritable and socially inhibited? A simple test may help predict the health effect by Michael C. Miller, M.D. – Newsweek, Oct 3, 2005, p.58-59. Miller is editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.

“And among people who already have heart conditions, those with the highest scores – the so-called Type D personalities – are less responsive to treatment and have poorer quality of life. They are also more likely to die prematurely.”

Not a big surprise, of course, but a very good illustration to the thesis of a self-destruct programming in humans and how to avoid it. Personality types are all about predominant memes ruling the choices and views of a person. It seems that some memes are capable of bringing our body machinery to premature break ups, whether by design or by mere mismanagement of the body resources. Of course, when I refer to other authors, they usually talk about much deeper, often cellular-level self-destruct programming. But this example, which comes as no surprise to most people in the XXI century, illustrates it with evidence: a person’s choice of memes to carry is a choice of how good and how long life he or she is going to live.