Question: Are there different types of stress and do these
affect the heart differently? Answer: There are different types
of stress. There's stress that has something to do with what's
happening to you, outside, in the environment. It can be a job
that's too demanding, it can be a job that doesn't reward you,
it could be stressful life events, it could be a traffic jam
that won't let you get to where you need to go on time, anything
that happens to you. It can also be a lack of supportive social
ties with family and friends that can stress you. These are
things that happen outside you that stress you. Unfortunately,
some of us have the capacity to manufacture our own stress. This
is those of us who have a hostile personality type that makes us
more sensitive to the things that are happening out there in our
environment. We're always on our guard for somebody screwing up,
somebody going too slowly, somebody being selfish. And this
causes us to react, to have this frustration and anger reaction
to very low lev