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title: Dwelling on negative events biggest cause of stress | SMART Recovery Australia
description: published on October 17 2013 in the University of Liverpool University News  Click here to read
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# [Dwelling on negative events biggest cause of stress | SMART Recovery Australia](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/dwelling-on-negative-events-biggest-cause-of-stress)

 Written by [smart recovery](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/author/smart-recovery) | Sep 03, 2015

published on October 17 2013 in the University of Liverpool University News

[Click here to read](http://news.liv.ac.uk/2013/10/17/dwelling-on-negative-events-biggest-cause-of-stress/)

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