It isn’t healthy to hold a grudge.
That’s according to a new study from Harvard University, which revealed that forgiving others could benefit people’s overall mental health.
International researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, studied 4,598 subjects from five countries — Colombia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Africa and Ukraine — who said they’d been hurt or offended by another person.
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During the Q&A, VanderWeele suggested the disposition to forgive is “potentially very much needed” with the “increasing polarization” of today’s society.
It’s also possible for people to become more forgiving by rethinking how to interact with the world “more generally,” he said.
Forgiveness is “critical” in the trauma recovery process.Â
Rudd added that forgiveness is “critical” in the trauma recovery process, particularly for military veterans.
“Forgiveness is critical to recovery,” Dr. M. David Rudd of the University of Memphis (not pictured) told Fox News Digital in response to the new study. (iStock)
And often, it’s about “forgiving oneself,” he said.
“Forgiveness interventions help address common post-trauma struggles that involved persistent guilt and shame, particularly with veterans involved in combat,” Rudd added.