New Research Shows That Life’s Tough Experiences Do Make Us Stronger

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Often times when life hits us like a ton of bricks it leaves us saying “why me”? And after the event has passed we once again come back to the age old truth that what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger. In fact, new research may prove this true.

Research published in the current issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, has shown that life’s negative experiences do make us more resilient. While constant trauma does cause psychological problems, those who had no trauma at all also had problems. It was those somewhere in the middle, that had some traumatic events, that turned out better.

One explanation may be that those that have gone through negative life experiences are better equipped to cope with them. They also have a social network up that they can turn to in times of need. This research isn’t saying that those that go through trauma are always better for it, but rather, that many can eventually come through relatively unscathed.

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