“[Self-criticism] can impact our bodies by stimulating inflammatory mechanisms that lead to chronic illness and accelerate aging...”
Does anyone know where I can learn more about this?
Does anyone know where I can learn more about this?
I'll speculate that chronic self-criticism is, results from, and/or produces chronic stress. Chronic stress is known to be harmful to health in several ways.
You might start with an interesting article [1]: From Stress to Inflammation and Major Depressive Disorder: A Social Signal Transduction Theory of Depression. Not paywalled, maybe a place to begin looking at connections between self-criticism (which I find immensely stressful and debilitating) and consequent illnesses.