Via CNN
Feeling persistently resentful toward other people –the boss who fired you, the spouse who cheated on you –can indeed affect your physical health, according to a new book, “Embitterment: Societal, psychological, and clinical perspectives.”
In fact, the negative power of feeling bitter is so strong that the authors call for the creation of a new diagnosis called PTED, or post-traumatic embitterment disorder, to describe people who can’t forgive others’ transgressions against them.
The story points out that this really isn’t some crackpot BS, but actually has negative physiological and psychological effects on a person.
They also offer 5 ways to help, though, conspicuously absent are “perhaps I had something to do with what happened” and “grow up and just fuckin’ move on, crybaby. You wanted this job.”
