Can despair cause one to loose life longevity?

Answer 1

Despair is a serious word, just a notch away from serious depression. Depression can affect the immune system if you don't get help. Also, sometimes stress, lots of it, can lead to a feeling of despair, and stress produces bad chemicals in the brain that can affect memory too. So on a medical basis, yes. Nothing wrong with having momentary feelings that you might call as serious as despair, so long as they are fleeting ones. If it's an ongoing sense of despair, as you see for the reasons I just mentioned, your longevity and quality of later life can be effected.

Answer 2

Studies have correlated depression with lowered imune response, so, one becomes more prone to disease. Of course, suicide becomes far more likely, too.

Answer 3

It wouldn't surprise me. If you lose the will to live, your body will take the hint- and lose its resistance to illness... So that little by little...- you'll sicken & die... -alot SOONER, than later...