how bad is stress?

Question

can you really kill yourself with stress?

Answer 1

stress can lead to heart attack and various other health problems
Stress And Heart Disease, Type A Behavior and Heart Disease, Prevention and Treatment of Heart Disease, Heart Disease and Job Stress
The relationship between stress, heart disease and sudden death has been recognized since antiquity. The incidence of heart attacks and sudden death have been shown to increase significantly following the acute stress of natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis and as a consequence of any severe stressor that evokes "fight or flight' responses. Coronary heart disease is also much more common in individuals subjected to chronic stress and recent research has focused on how to identify and prevent this growing problem, particularly with respect to job stress. In many instances, we create our own stress that contributes to coronary disease by smoking and other faulty lifestyles or because of dangerous traits like excess anger, hostility, aggressiveness, time urgency, inappropriate competitiveness and preoccupation with work. These are characteristic of Type A coronary prone behavior, now recognized to be as significant a risk factor for heart attacks and coronary events as cigarette consumption, elevated cholesterol and blood pressure. While Type A behavior can also increase the likelihood of these standard risk factors, its strong correlation with coronary heart disease persists even when these influences have been excluded. However, there is considerable confusion about how to diagnose and measure Type A behavior and numerous misconceptions about which components are the most as indicated in the Interview with Dr. Ray Rosenman, one of the co-authors of the Type A behavior concept. The following discussion is designed to clarify these and other aspects of the role of emotions and behavior in heart disease and how this may relate to the explosive increase in job stress. References have also been provided to obtain additional details on items that may be of special interest.

Answer 2

For some people stress is a very frightened part in everyday life. For some stress means loss or illness. Each and every person is different and they respond to stress differently.
When we are suffering with long periods of stress our body gives some physical or emotional responses which should not be ignored.
Stress it is the main reason for many problems, especially it not only affects the people emotionally it will also effects the people physically. Anxiety, sleep problems, weight gain, constant worry, lack of creativity or lack of interest, it will weaken the immune system, and probably there are lots of chances for occurrence of cancer, worsen the digestive system.
Many physicians believe that chronic stress can leads to heart diseases. There are lots of incidences where people with severe stress levels can cause Acute coronary syndrome or sudden cardiac death. This ACS can leads to elevations in blood pressure, heart pressure, continuous blood clotting. Stress causing cardiac problems can lead to death.
Try to identify the causes of stress and solve those problems. I found some useful information at
http://seahealth.org/anxiety

Answer 3

stress is not bad it's just a way that prepared ur body to deal with the situation. I learned many things from stress one is that really Nothing deserves stress and second everything will go away it's just a matter of time.

Answer 4

Unnecessary stress is not good for health. when you come in the unnecessary stress then you can reduce your health.

Answer 5

Never!

Answer 6

yup.....it has a horrible effcet on u