As stated by human nature's researcher Steven Parton on Psych Pedia, complaining can not only irritate those who are around you, but it can also harm your mental health. Firstly, he explains that pessimistic thoughts actually change how our brains work. Parton even goes as far to say that complaining can literally kill you.
Because our craniums contain synapses (a junction between two nerve cells) that help transmit electrical charges, information is proficient to make its way around our minds. "Every time this electrical charge is precipitated, the synapses grow closer together in order to reduce the distance the electrical charge has to intersect," Parton explained.
"The brain is providing its own circuitry, physically transforming itself," he continued. "To make it easier and more likely that the correct synapses will share the chemical link and spark together in essence, making it easier for the thought to precipitate."
In other words, if you keep on thinking about negative thoughts, your brain will make it easier for you to have those thoughts in the future. Plus, this helps the negative thoughts overcome some affirmative thoughts in your mind.
"To the far side of the repetition of thoughts, you've brought the pair of synapses that represents your [pessimistic] proclivities closer and closer together, and when the time comes for you to create a thought," Parton stated. "The thought that wins is the one that has less interval to travel, the one that will create an overpass between synapses fastest."
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As it turns out, complaining can also influence your physical health. When our brains construct negativity, this can raise blood pressures, result in weight gain, obstruct with the brain's memory, debilitate immune systems and raise the chances of procuring heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other bad ailments.
"When we spot someone going through an emotion (may it be anger, sadness, happiness, etc.), our brain 'tries out' that similar emotion to visualize what the other person is going through," Patron said. "And it does this by striving to fire the same synapses in your own brain so that you can strive to relate to the emotion you are perceiving. This is basically the ability to perceive."
