While happiness can benefit your health in many ways, excessive joy can actually be harmful to your health.
“There are cases of people who have suffered heart attacks when receiving very pleasant news but who have not been channeled in a calm way,” Isabel Suárez, a psychologist with over 25 years of experience and the head of wellness for I-M.I.N.D., said in an email to The Epoch Times.
The University Hospital Zurich established an international registry in 2011 to document cases of Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as the “happy heart syndrome.” The condition can be triggered by extreme emotional states, as demonstrated by recorded instances where a person developed stress-induced cardiomyopathy after a positive emotional event, such as winning several jackpots at a casino….