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6 - Resilience for Life – Yours

from Part II - The System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2024

Lawson R. Wulsin
Lawson R. Wulsin
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati
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What is a stress-related illness? And how does resilience protect us? Most of us are quite resilient against many of life’s stressors for most of our lifespans. So how does something as psychological as loneliness shorten our lives? And how does depression double the risk for death by heart disease? Some of the answers are found in the secrets to healthy aging. Just ask the centenarians.

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resilienceTeresa Langfordstress-related illnessesoptimismlonelinessdepressionheart diseasetelomerescentenarians
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Toxic Stress
How Stress Is Making Us Ill and What We Can Do About It
 , pp. 111 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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