Happiness Is Good, but Which Type of Happiness Might Be an Exception?

While happiness can benefit your health in many ways, excessive joy can actually be harmful to your health. One of the most pointed examples of that is takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as “happy heart syndrome.”
The condition can be triggered by extreme emotional states, as demonstrated by recorded instances in which a person developed stress-induced cardiomyopathy after a positive emotional event, such as winning several jackpots at a casino.
“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 more than 25 years of experience and the head of wellness at I-M.I.N.D., explained in an email to The Epoch Times….