Really Can Boredom Cause Death?

British researchers found that compared with people who often feel enrich, people who feel bored would easily suffer from heart disease or stroke.
Researchers from University College London Department of Epidemiology and Public Health had accepted the boredom investigation of the 7524 civil services information from 1985 to 1988 when they were 35 to 55-year-old. Until April 2009, a number of them have already passed away. The past survey showed that one in ten of the civil servants once has the feeling of bored in the past month, the number of the female civil servants who feeling bored is 2 times more than men. It is easy to feel bored for young civil servants and civil servants who involved in trivial work more than others. The researchers found that for civil services who feel extremely frivolous, the probability of dying is higher with 37 times than those who felt enriched. Martin Shipley, one of report writers, said there is sufficient evidence to show heart disease has related to boredom.

The researchers analyzed for people who feel bored and dissatisfaction, they may develop bad habits such as smoking, alcoholism and so on. All of these factors would make life shorten. This phenomenon was reflected in a hot TV series called Bored to Death. In the series, Jonathan Ames was a writer, he was abandoned by his girlfriend and felt the pain, gradually, his inspiration of writing increasingly depleted, he was no place to resolve depression and seek for solace from drug and alcohol. Shipley suggested that if there was no fun in your work, you should cultivate an interest outside of work, instead of taking alcohol and tobacco. Psychologist Graham Price also said if motivation and inspiration cant get from your life or there is depressive tendency, the solution is to shift attention from themselves to others. You can consider what should we do for the family, friends, colleagues and even bosses.

Some professionals provide effective weapons for people who feel bored, the key words is change. For example, you can do meaningful things and found the value of work. If we think that work is not meaningful, you could not get the spirit of nature from working. To change this attitude, career planning should be adjusted and the value of work also should be re-discovered. In addition, in the spare time, you can do things in a hospital or a school as a volunteer, happiness would be found from the service of others.