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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ahnehnois" data-source="post: 7651337" data-attributes="member: 17106">As someone who works with military medicine researching the "three P's" (PTSD, post-concussive syndrome, and pain), I can concur that the idea that all adversities are opportunities is untrue and prejudicial towards those who don't recover. Do some people react well to adversity? Yes. Is recovery from illness or injury possible? Often. But many other people who are exposed to physical and/or psychological trauma clearly live poorer lives because of it and never recover.Trying to understand why people react differently to traumatic events is really one of the frontiers of medicine.To retain this theme while getting back to the thread topic, I have had some very bad things happen to me (including the loss of pets under difficult circumstances and many worse things), and I dealt with it by confronting the issue. I do research on people who have suffered similarly, and plan on treating them someday. I also explore the fallout of traumatic events artistically, particularly through the stories I tell using the rpg medium.I used to try avoiding pain, and that didn't work. Nor did searching for a magic bullet, a solution that would make certain problems go away. Thus my route now is to embrace negative events and learn from them. Not the easy road.</blockquote>