By Jason Castro — 2010
New research underlines the wisdom of being absorbed in what you do
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Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.
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As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.