A Study Disproves Popular Belief: "Being Carefree Shortens Life," According to a Psychiatrist

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For a long time, it has been considered that people who were less concerned about their environment had a better mental health and by extension, a longer life.But science disproves it.That's what the American psychiatrist Daniel Amen explains, who in an intervention in the podcast The Diary of a CEO cites a study from Stanford University that supports the theory.The research began in 1921 with 1,541 children under the age of 10. "It's the longes…