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Negative emotions such as anger, sadness, or fear stress the body, yet shame occupies a category of its own.
Shame devastates mental and physical health through self-blame, stress, and chronic inflammation—a phenomenon Dr. Will Cole, a leading functional medicine expert, calls “shameflammation.”
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