From: AOL
Why a traumatic experience could be good for you
January 31, 2012
AOL:
Finding out you have a serious illness or being in an accident is not something you might associate with changing your life for the better.
However a psychologist has discovered that having a traumatic event occur in your life could turn out to be a positive thing.
Professor Stephen Joseph, co-director of the Centre For Trauma, Resilience And Growth at the University of Nottingham, wrote about the subject in the Daily Mail, and said his experience working with the survivors of the Zeebrugge ferry disaster showed that having the experience left them “with a new outlook”.
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