The Psychological Immune System

The psychological immune system means that bad things aren as bad as we think, but it still feels like the worst possible thing you imagine happening happening would be bad and it would suck. Another trait that i've seen emerge in almost all of my guess, for me psychologically, is to irresistibly want to build stories out of our experiences. And this is true irrespective of religious beliefs, spiritual beliefs, right? I find this across the board, believers and non believers alike.