| Stress is not something that our forefathers were | | | | the fact remains that it is mostly people with |
| familiar with, although their lives were surely filled with | | | | personality type A who are prone to stress, and |
| lots of traumatic events related to high mortality rates | | | | stress does lead to all sorts of health problems - not to |
| and incurable disease, but the concept of stress just | | | | speak of just making your life a misery in general! |
| wasn't known as such. People definitely did suffer | | | | People with this type of personality need to be |
| from breakdowns and depression, but the concept of | | | | conscious of the fact that the underlying reason why |
| stress was not recognized as an illness or a disease. | | | | they are always stressed has to do with the way that |
| Today, stress seems to fill our lives and also appear to | | | | they manage their lives - stress is not an objective |
| be mostly self-inflicted! Some personality types just | | | | independent entity but something that is perceived in |
| seem to be more prone to stress than others. The | | | | the mind of the person who experiences the stress. |
| first step in dealing with stress, much like dealing with | | | | What I am trying to say is that stressful events |
| alcoholism, is to acknowledge that you are suffering | | | | happen to everyone, but only some people experience |
| from stress. Most people who suffer from stress in | | | | them as stressful. Different people have different |
| fact are not aware of the fact, and only find out too | | | | views of what is stressful and what is not. Obviously |
| late when they already have some type of heart | | | | life-changing experiences such as the death of a loved |
| disease, high blood pressure, neck and shoulder | | | | one, moving house, getting married and so forth does |
| stiffness, or migraine problem identified. Or when their | | | | have a major bearing on your life - it always has and it |
| family make them aware of the fact that they are | | | | always will, but the fact of the matter is, when people |
| always in a hurry, never have time, have anger | | | | talk about 'being stressed' these days, it is not about |
| explosions for the slightest provocation and are, | | | | dealing with the impact of a major life-changing event, |
| frankly, just miserable people to live with. | | | | but rather about the day to day grind of dealing with |
| The personality type that is prone to stress is known | | | | life. Some people just seem to do it so much better |
| as 'Personality type A' - a concept that is well known | | | | than others. |
| by now after research done in the 1950s by Friedman | | | | The ones who can't seem to go with the flow and just |
| and Rosenman, although the notion of using this | | | | cope with the daily aggravations of dealing with |
| personality type to predict heart disease risk has been | | | | demanding work circumstances such as money that |
| falling out of favor recently. Apparently only people | | | | runs out before expenses does, juggling household and |
| with personality type A who shows a lot of obvious, | | | | family demands, need to learn how to cope with |
| external hostility are really prone to heart disease, but | | | | stress and manage it. |