North Korean Common Sense: Personality’s Impact on Health Explored

What effect does personality have on health?

The North Korean Cabinet newspaper Minju Choson asked this question in the Common Sense column on the 6th: “Personality is a psychological characteristic of people, mainly expressed in their habits and behaviors.”

In response, the newspaper said, “It has already been proven through various research projects that a person’s personality has a certain relationship with diseases,” and cited a few examples of the mutual relationship between personality and health.

In other words, a bad temperament, such as being violent, quick-tempered, arrogant, impatient, depressed, and selfish, makes it easy to get sick.

People who are always depressed or suppressed and in a bad mood age rapidly.

Also, people who are introverted, lonely, and live in depression are prone to metabolic disorders, not only weakening their bodies but also worsening their digestion and appetite, eventually leading to various diseases.

Especially weak people struggle to overcome even minor mental shocks and eventually get sick.

The newspaper advised, “Knowing that a bad personality harms one’s health, one should consciously participate in physical activities and recreational games to develop an optimistic mood and a lively personality.”