self inflicted - I’ve heard and it makes sense that 80-90% of all disease/illness/injury can be linked back to thought life and the stress we create in our self (staying up late, making poor choices like indiscriminate sexual partners, smoking, drugs, even OTC and Rx in some cases, addictive/cyclical anger, self hate, victim, it won’t happen to me, I’ll take care of it later mentalities mindless eating, video games, reading just for the sake of reading, addictive over exercising, internet addiction, etc- they all influence us to choose poorly, cause repetitive injury, or slowly lead to imbalance in the body or mind and illness down the road. There are many other “self” choice factors i didn’t even mention.
There is a huge spiritual component (God, self, devil) to wellness and illness that our modern medicine and health system shun for the sale of doctor/consultant visits, pills, procedures, ungodly thinking systems or activities.
Self inflicted can include overwhelming majority of people.
I think it includes just about everyone.
So where do we draw the line about self inflicted health conditions?
For most of us, no matter how healthy you are, at some point you will need expensive medical care. It doesn't matter if you are 40 and dying from alcoholic cirrhosis, 50 and dying from smoking-related lung cancer or 85 and dying from multiple organ failure, for those of us who die naturally, about 90% of all our medical costs will be spent in our last two years of life.