Forgiving Other People Is GOOD

o do this, they asked 148 young adults to fill out questionnaires that assessed their levels of lifetime stress, their tendency to forgive and their mental and physical health.
But the researchers also discovered that if people were highly forgiving of both themselves and others, that characteristic alone virtually eliminated the connection between stress and mental illness.
The researchers speculate that people who are more forgiving may adopt better coping skills to deal with stress, or their reaction to major stressors may bE.
veness takes that bad connection between stress and mental illness and makes it zero,” he says. “I think most people want to feel good and it offers you the opportunity to do.
forgiving to yourself and others can protect against  and the toll it takes on mental health, according to  in the Journal of Health.