t’s been well established that stress can make us more susceptible
to illness and slower to heal. Previous studies, for example, have
found that people caring for a loved one with dementia heal more
slowly from small wounds.
Now, an Ohio State University study led by Jean-Phillipe Gouin and
reported in the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity suggests
that people who can’t control their anger may also take longer
to heal from an injury.
For the study, researchers found 100 volunteers who agreed to let
them make a small blister on their forearm, then cover it with plastic
and see how quickly it healed.
The volunteers were screened with a focus on how they dealt with
anger, and they were categorized in three ways: (1) those who tended
to keep their angry feelings to themselves, (2) those who let others
know if they were angry, and (3) those who tended to fly off the
handle.
The study found that those who expressed anger and those who did
not healed about the same. But the hotheads were four times as likely
to heal at a slower rate.
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