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Traumatic events can yield positive outcomes,I observe psychologists Charles S. Carver and Michael H. Antonioand women who maintain that belief, even during a crisis, tend to be better ?off emotionally years later. Carver and Antoni, a team of researchers at ?the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, contacted 96 of 230 women theyid surveyed five to eight years earlier, in the first year after treatment for ?early-stage breast cancer. Those who had managed to see some benefit in ?the experience early on, when stress was quite high, reported a better quality ?of life and exhibited less negativity and depressionoeven among those who had since suffered from a recurrence or new cancerocompared with people who had identified little or no positive side. Some of the benefits they cited were identifying their most dependable friends, becoming a stronger person, and discovering their purpose in life. Any personal trauma, not just illness, offers an opportunity ?for growth, the psychologists say.

40%

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of Americans suffer from an impulse-control disorder at some time in their lives.

osurvey of 9,282 people headed by Harvard University Medical School professor Ronald C. Kessler