| Emotional Adjustment and Scleroderma | |
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| Marriage and Health | |
| Marriage, like any type of relationship can affect your health. Studies have shown that a bad marriage can have a negative effect on your health while a good marriage can have a positive effect. Bad marriages cause stress. Studies have found a strong relationship between stress and disease. | |
| How a Marriage Survives When One Partner Gets Sick. The contract changes when a husband or wife becomes chronically ill, but many couples learn to not just adjust but also thrive. Here are their stories. Donna Jackson Nakazawa. October, 2009. | |
| Well Aisle Be. A Look At Whether Marriage Is Good Or Bad For Your Health. A long line of surveys have shown the institution of marriage can either be good for your health with lower risk of illness and longer life expectancy, or can be bad for you in terms of stress, putting on weight and lifestyle problems. Brian Mciver. 03/06/09. DailyRecord.co.uk. | |
| Keeping Your Marriage Strong. No matter how good your marriage, chronic illness can cause strains between you and your spouse. But there are practical steps both spouses can take to help ensure that illness doesn’t become a wedge between them. Dorothy Foltz-Gray. Arthritis Today. March 5, 2009. | |
Hostile marriage can make you sick. It makes sense intuitively that anger and hostility within a marriage can literally make one sick. Now researchers at the University of Utah have come a step closer to confirming that may be the case, particularly for women in the Beehive State. C.A. Moore. Deseret News. 03/04/09. |
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| The Effects of Marriage on Health. This brief focuses on recent research evidence concerning one of these potential benefits of marriage — its effects on health. The brief provides an overview of what is currently known about the relationship between marriage and health; it also suggests directions for future research. ASPE Research Brief. June 2007. | |
| Personal Stories | |
| Kym: Diffuse, CREST Scleroderma, Lupus and Fibromyalgia It all started with Raynaud's in my fingers and toes at about nineteen years old in 1979. | |
| Kath: Systemic Sclerosis (Scleroderma) I suffered from quite a lot of stress, as I was in a bad marriage that ended in divorce after a few years. | |
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