Psychology: The Reoccurrence Of Flu

The reoccurrence of flu that happens to me can be associated to be been psychological (behavior) and also social (environment). The contributing factor mostly behavioral because each time somebody around me has a flu my mind begins to accept it and then my behavior will be that I also have a cold and thereafter am down with flu.

Now let’s analyse how the flu contributes to my behaviour, the symptoms of the flu begins to make me depressed, it begins to play with my mind which in turn gives me the depressed feeling. Lets start by defining health behaviours, Health behaviours have been defined as ‘. . . overt behavioral patterns, actions and habits that relate to health maintenance, to health restoration and to health improvement’ (Gochman, 1997), Using the health and illness as a continuum theoretical frameworks it can clearly be seen that psychology is involved in illness onset (I start having a belief), illness adaptation ( coping ), illness progression( i begin to have a behaviour change, begin to feel depressed and stressed) and health outcomes ( usually quality of life ).
Inconclusion I would greatly say because of my behavioural pattern about flu it always ends up playing with my mind, emotions and then produce