Why Recovery Is Better When You Have Healthy Relationships

Do You Value Your Friendships To Maintain Healthy Relationships?

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Great friendships are really fun, offering you a multitude of health benefits.

They include everything from strengthening your immune system to helping you sleep better.

So friendships can make a huge difference in your health and recovery process.

Whether you are recovering from therapies that treat cancer, surgery or illness, those good relationships can help you recover faster and more easily.

Why?

For practical reasons:

1. Friends reduce stress levels

• low stress levels make for a faster recovery
• high stress levels, on the other hand, can cause complications unnecessarily

2. Friends help pick up the slack

• you won’t have to overexert yourself trying to take care of others
• no need to get around on your own
• with the help of loved ones you can just rest as needed

3. Friends offer information

• in many cases at least one friend will have experience caring for someone
• or else having experience during a similar recovery period
• they might have helpful tips or
• an especially understanding heart as you go through it

4. Friends can remember what you can’t

• when you have therapies or operations that require recovery, it’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the information given to you and coordinating all that needs to get done
• a loved one can listen in, take notes, and help you to remember and sort everything out

Click on the link below if you’re interested in friendship and how it affects your health:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/friendship-observation/201506/friendship-matters

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