Clinical depression ~ brain cancer (#224, Topic D)

At yesterday's Tai Chi class, Wang Lao-shi, one of our TC teachers, displayed copies of a book by a Mr. Chen, a TC master from another club -- mentioning that proceeds from the sale of these books were for his memorial fund. Memorial fund? Has he passed away?, I asked. Yes. Of what? Brain cancer -- not only that, one of his students, who died recently, was also of brain cancer. So, in a span of few mintues, I learned of three brain-cancer cases (at that time, I only knew that K.C., a fellow student, had brain cancer; I did not know that he had died the day before [#223]). After our class, I asked Lu Lao-shi, another TC teacher, who has studied Chinese medicine for a long time and who has made a practice of integrating his knowledge in Chinese medicine into TC movements, the cause of brain cancer. His answer: clinical depression. He cited a recent study, from an autopsy done in Australia, of a TC-practicing patient died of brain cancer: he was found to have cancer cells all over his body -- but, being a practitioner of TC and being physically healthy, his immune system was able to control all these cancer cells, except those in his brain. The study contended that (1) as to brain cancer, physical health was not as important as mental health, and (2) those with clinical depression are less likely to keep an upper hand in combating brain-cancer cells. I have seen Master Chen in action twice, once at one of our club's year-end celebrations, and another time at a public performance in a theater, a duo with his wife accompanied by eight flutes playing classical Chinese music. In both instances, Master Chen, perhaps in his 50s, was robust and fit. So, Lu Lao-shi's answer makes great sense. By the same token, hearing this answer, alone, would make one depressed. If, on top of that, one is fed with a daily dose of depressing news, such as I have been, one is twice as likely to be clinically depressed. If, on top of both, one has to digest these daily doses of depressing news for the purpose of doing blogs, as I have been doing since last December, one is, possibly, thrice as likely to be clinically depresed. Perhaps I should stop doing this blog?