i ran across studies by david spiegel of stanford university you did research with breast cancer patients and did a simple experiment where some of the women with breast cancer talked weekly in the group about their situation, life, sharing stories, and stories, and other women did not have that opportunity. he first wrote about this by saying the women who were talking once a week felt better about life. emotions were higher, more more optimistic, they felt good. the real kicker came when he discovered the people who had met weekly were twice as likely. published a piece in the harvard medical journals back in the late 1990s and had been working with people who had heart attacks and discover that of a heart attack patients, those who could not identify that they had at least one person who they could confide in,, share there life stories with them problems and so forth, those people were twice as likely to be dead years later. the. the statistic, twice as likely. we talked. if cbs news announced it was a drug that can make your survival rate twice as great it would be headlines. epidemic