The bottom line is that we are all going to face crises in life. The outcome should be hopefully, a better quality of life. Survival, or prolonged survival or cure. But you can't get to those levels until you take care of your inner fears, your anger, your isolation, your denial of problems. Rosenbaum says patients who can do this, can increase their chances of survival and improve quaility of life.
Heart attacks occur.
How you deal with them that gives you the best chance of getting something out of life and quality of life. For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin.