From: Woman's Day
Where’s My SuperHero Cape?
January 20, 2012
Woman’s Day:
A few days ago I talked about divorced people having a higher incidence of early death. Gee, that was swell, wasn’t it? That was the bad news, though, and now for the good news: stress makes you stronger.
A study done for Current Directions in Psychological Science shows that hardships make you more resilient, and better able to cope with stress in comparison to those who haven’t faced as many hardships in their own lives.
Mark D. Seery, Ph.D., is the study author, and a psychology professor at the University at Buffalo. He likens living through adversity to the effect of exercise making your body stronger:
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