The first is the premise of positive psychology: If you want to understand how depressed can become happy, don't study depressed people, study happy people. If you want to find out what makes people resilient, study people who have demonstrated great resilience.
The second is derived from the influence of neurology on psychology and the burgeoning knowledge we now have of what happens inside people's brains and bodies, physically and biochemically when bad things happen to them.
Stress hormones course, synapses snap, people get hurt.
In this understanding, bad experiences are trauma. Resilient people recover from trauma and less resilient people can learn to become resilient so that they too can recover.
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