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Good news: Being neurotic may be good for your health

However, the neurotics in the MIDUS database who also had conscientious personality traits — organized, hard-working, responsible and self-controlled — showed some interesting health advantages. Their levels of Interleukin 6 (IL-6), a biomarker for chronic disease and inflammation, were significantly lower than the IL-6 levels found in other personality types.

The conscientious neurotics also had lower average BMI scores and were diagnosed with fewer overall chronic health conditions than other personality types. “… [W]hat we found was that when people are high both in neuroticism and conscientiousness, the conscientiousness buffers the negative effects of neuroticism,” Turiano said, according to Today.com.

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Just a ploy to get you to admit your neurosis’ so later they can put you behind closed doors. Do not fall for it!

astonerii on December 29, 2012 at 10:37 PM

Unless you’re working for them too.

andycanuck on December 29, 2012 at 10:52 PM

I shouldn’t read this sort of stuff – it only makes me depressed.

OldEnglish on December 29, 2012 at 11:26 PM

We neurotics don’t experience a “mid-life crisis” because virtually our entire waking and dreaming lives are a series of crises … ;-)

ShainS on December 29, 2012 at 11:49 PM

I don’t think they’ve followed these people long enough.

Night Owl on December 30, 2012 at 12:11 AM

However, the neurotics in the MIDUS database who also had conscientious personality traits — organized, hard-working, responsible and self-controlled — showed some interesting health advantages.

Isn’t that the same standard they used to lock people up in asylumns in the Soviet Union? The horrible mental illness we refer to in America as “conservatism.”

logis on December 30, 2012 at 9:27 AM