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Relationship Worries Can Make You Sick

By Kathleen Doheny

HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Feb. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Feeling insecure and frequently anxious about your romantic relationship can actually harm your health, new research contends.

The feelings may boost levels of a stress hormone and lower your immune system, according to Ohio State researchers.

In their study, married couples who were often anxious about their relationship -- wondering if their partner truly loved them, for example -- had higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and lower levels of T-cells, which are important in the immune system to fight off infections, lead author Lisa Jaremka said.

"These concerns about rejection and whether or not you are truly cared for do have physiological consequences that could, in the long-term, negatively affect health," said Jaremka, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University's Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research.

The study was recently published online and will appear in an upcoming print issue of Psychological Science.

Jaremka said she was not describing the normal now-and-then concerns about a relationship. "Everybody has these thoughts and feelings sometimes," she said. "They are a natural part of being in a relationship."

But for the highly anxious, she added, "it's a chronic thing."

Jaremka studied 85 couples, all married for an average of more than 12 years. Most were white. Their average age was 39. All the partners reported their general anxiety levels and symptoms, and answered questions about their marriage and about their sleep quality.

The couples were generally healthy. Those with wives who were expecting a baby, or who drank excess alcohol or caffeine or had health problems affecting the immune system were all excluded.

The couples provided saliva samples over three days and blood samples twice. From these, the research team measured levels of cortisol and T-cells.

Participants with higher levels of anxiety about the marriage produced about 11 percent more cortisol than those with lower anxiety levels. Spouses with higher anxiety levels had between 11 percent and 22 percent lower levels of T cells than those with less anxiety.

Jaremka said the two findings are likely linked, because cortisol can hamper production of T-cells.

The study found a link or association between relationship anxiety and the body's stress and immune response, but cannot prove cause and effect.

While the study did not track whether the highly anxious partners got sick more often, the link is reasonable, Jaremka said, based on other research about the ill effects of chronically high stress hormone levels.

"A lot of the negative consequences of high cortisol are beyond the common flu," she said. Rather, she added, high level have been linked to heart problems, sleep problems, depression and other conditions.

Another expert who also studies attachment styles said the link between attachment anxiety and stress is not new, but the link to immune system function is newer. And it is "not that surprising," said Jeni Burnette, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Richmond, in Virginia.

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Building and sustaining a healthy relationship with your spouse or partner takes work. When you have a child with ADHD, balancing his or her needs with the attention your marriage deserves is critical if both are going to thrive.

"Anytime you have a child with a condition like ADHD that impacts his ability to socialize, to follow rules, to learn, and listen, it impacts your marriage," says Los Angeles psychotherapist Jenn Berman, PhD. "As parents and as a couple, you need to listen, work together, and focus not only on your child, but each other as well."

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One of the first disagreements many parents have when faced with a child's ADHD is whether their child actually has the condition. For some couples, that's a big hurdle to overcome.

"Many times, I see two parents who are on different pages when it comes to whether their child has ADHD at all, or if they do agree to that, how it should be treated," says Mark Wolraich, MD, a pediatrics professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

The goal is to come to terms with the diagnosis, and unite on one path forward in terms of treatment. Then, you can focus on helping your child, and each other.

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"Marriage is something you work on all the time," says Terry Dickson, MD, director of the Behavioral Medicine Clinic of NW Michigan, and an ADHD coach. "But having a child with ADHD adds extra stress to the whole family dynamic."

Dickson knows firsthand: He has ADHD, and so do his two children. His wife does not.

"When we got married, we both knew it was for life," Dickson says. "But you need to know that having a child with ADHD will affect your marriage, and you both need to be equally committed to making it work."

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Dickson recalls one study that found parents of a child with ADHD are nearly twice as likely to divorce by the time the child is 8 years old than parents of children without ADHD. Though it's only one study, Dickson says, it highlights the extra pressure that having a child with ADHD can have on a relationship.  

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Imaging study identifies relationship between stress and catches

3 Dec. 2012 A study reported here on the 66th American epilepsy Society Annual Meeting has determined that a significant difference in the brain's response to stress in patients who believe stress is an important factor in their herd control relative to patients who do not hold this belief.

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Many epilepsy patients believe that stress is a factor in their herd control, while many other epilepsy patients do not need this perception. To the potential role of stress in these patients better understand, has a functional neuroimaging study of patients with left temporal lobe epilepsy under psychosocial stress imposed conducted by researchers in the departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Cincinnati. (Abstract # 1.184)

All subjects in the study were given math exercises to complete, initially simple problems during the control task and difficult problems during the stress task. Subjects were equipped with positive feedback during the simple mathematical problems and negative feedback during the difficult ones regardless of how well they were doing.

Both groups of patients responded to the math exercises with similar accuracy and response times. But patients who experienced stress to important in seizure control showed more brain activation during the stressful compared to non-stressful conditions. The activation was seen both bilateral (in the superior temporal gyrus, posterior Cingulate and parietal areas) and one-sided (in the left insula) in subjects who believe as important in their herd stress control; Whereas an increase in activation in the comparison group was not observed.

According to study author Jane b. Allendorfer, Ph.d., in the Department of Neurology, University of Alabama in Birmingham (previously at the University of Cincinnati where the study was conducted), "our study is the first to show a relationship between stress and brain activation in patients who believe stress as a factor in seizure control relative to patients who do not have this perception. We also assume that the difference in the brain activation patterns can be related to why some patients with epilepsy attacks more often than other patients. "

This study is supported by the Charles Shor Foundation for Epilepsy Research.

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