Time Really is the Best Healer of a Traumatic Event in Life

Time really is the best healer, for no matter what the disaster, a new study has found that the basic level of happiness stays the same throughout our lives .

Time really is the best healer, for no matter what the disaster, a new study has found that the basic level of happiness stays the same throughout our lives as we get used to good and bad events.

The 20-year study led by Brunel University researchers found that traumatic events, such as widowhood or divorce, did make people depressed but they soon recovered from the life's dark phase.

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The study also found that the joy people experienced after getting married or having kids, also fade out after a few years.

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The researchers dubbed the concept as 'thermostat' of happiness- when a big event happens to you, whether it is positive or negative, the spring stretches, but returns back to its former state quite quickly.

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"It's consistent with other findings that people recover from negative events very quickly - there was some literature on people who became paraplegic, who, when interviewed a few years later, had similar levels of happiness to those who had not been affected this way," BBC quoted Dr Yannis Georgellis, co-author and senior lecturer in economics at Brunel University, as saying.

"Likewise, there are studies of lottery winners who are no happier in the long term," he added.

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The study suggested that people get used to "life-changing" events fairly quickly

"The findings will be interesting for economists and psychologists worldwide as it reveals new mechanisms to explain what makes us happy he told Telegraph.

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The study is published in the latest issue of the Economic Journal.

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