“Nostalgia is a powerful emotion”: the bright side of a feeling that was born as a lethal disease

There was a time when you could die of nostalgia. Literally, dying and that in the death certificate, within the section cause of death, a doctor wrote nostalgia. Perhaps, because of having that pathological origin, nostalgia has always been associated with sadness and melancholy. But, for some time now, various studies have shown that it can be much more. “Nostalgia is a powerful emotion that can benefit our well-being,” says Kuan-Juang, a PhD …