According to a new Harvard study that followed 6,700 Britons from age 7 to 45, lifelong distress takes more of a health toll than being stressed in either childhood or adulthood. But if you have to endure distress during just one period, childhood is a more vulnerable time.

Childhood distress may be particularly important because that’s when people are learning how to control their emotions, said Ashley Winning, a postdoctoral research fellow and social epidemiologist at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, who was the first author on the study.

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