Topic: Mental health

In How to Turn Off Harmful Stress Like a Switch, Nir Eyal uses the experience of Viktor Frankl to illustrate how the impact stress has on our long-term health depends on how we deal with it.

He also describes a study done on rats that confirms this. Both rats were exposed to the same electrical shocks but the rat that was able to disable the mechanism was far less stressed. This is echoed by Sherry Walling:

This kind of equanimity is a foundational part of Stoicism.