Study Finds One Type of Compassion Brings Us the Most Benefit

Studies have long suggested that helping others can make us feel happier, and this extends to caring about animals too — as anyone who volunteers can attest.

But a new study about compassion offers a window into how it relates to mental health, and it turns out that one type of compassion has more impact than you might think: How we care about and treat ourselves.

"What came out of the study is that if someone reported high compassion for others but low compassion for themselves, they tended to have anxiety, depression and low well-being," said Bassam Khoury, lead researcher in the study and clinical psychologist and professor at McGill University in Canada.

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