Stress, Blood Pressure and Heart Attacks

By Andrew John

Stress is known to activate "fight-or-run" mechanisms in your body, including increased heartbeat rate and blood pressure to prepare our bodies to incoming danger. This does nothing wrong if happens once a month, but if you suffer from long-time stress, blood pressure level will be increased - permanently. And such situation is both unnatural and dangerous for even the youngest.

If you feel stressed, think about problems that cause it. Is it really worth endangering your very life for an increase in salary or a better car? High blood pressure may end in a heart attack and a painful death - and there is simply nothing worth it. You simply have to solve it once and for all. Talk with someone about your problems and make sure you will have some assistance and backup when you start actually coping with what haunts you.

If you're in doubt or if you have no one to talk to, you can always call your family doctor. First of all, he will know a lot of ways to avoid stress or minimize its effects. Then, if he thinks it is a right idea, he will also prescribe you some nerve pills to cool you down and let you solve your problems.

Then, remember that even if you get rid of stress once, it may still return. If you want to get rid of stress for good, you have to change your attitude towards yourself and life. For one, you have be a little more relaxed and never let anything but the most crucial matters to stress you. Negative thinking and inventing problems instead of solutions will get you nowhere but to the hospital.

Life isn't long enough to spend more than a day worrying about something. If you let yourself to be stressed and do nothing about it, your life is as good as gone. You have to relax a bit from time to time, and thing about the greater picture and your role in it. Then, all the details that make you down will no longer be as important as you think now. If only you could take them easy, your stress would vanish in a blink of an eye. - 32513

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