If you’re fed up with the negativity of today’s media, psychologist and trauma expert Charles Figley urges you to not turn away. Instead, absorb some more, he says, because bad news is good for you.
Marco Visscher | October 2010 issue
Bad news "forces us to be problem-solvers"
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