WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE RESPONSE OF UNFORGIVENESS.
“Emotional forgiveness is where the health action is,” says Worthington.
“Emotional unforgiveness causes a chronic stress response, which results in obsessing about the wrong done to you. Rumination is what gets people into trouble. Rumination is the mental health bad boy. It’s associated with almost everything bad in the mental health field -- obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression … probably hives too.”