Stress: Can it Really Take a Dangerous Toll on Me?

From last week Friday until this very moment, so much has happened. I got news that a good person passed away. She was young but very wise and a great influence to all. An angel is what she was described as and that was true indeed. The news shocked me and got me thinking about my life and things I need to change. While that was stressing within itself, personal problems began to form all around me and I became very angry and stressed. I am not a person who likes to use profanity much but I was just out of my normal character. I would pray as I was taught to do and then go back to being angry afterward and I felt the side effects from this. I wasn't eating right at all. I am normally a big eater but the stress just took away my appetite.

People who know me know that I am outgoing most of the time and I love a good time. I love making people laugh and making people feel loved. I wasn't in the mood for any of this and people were noticing this. Every time I think or talk to someone about the problems I am facing I began to tremble and get very angry sometime feeling a slight pain in my chest. Even while writing this article the thoughts of my problems had me trembling. Hopefully writing this will help toward relieving the stress. I don't like feeling this way. When I get angry I know I don't react very well sometimes but people don't understand the pain I have experienced in my life. Only I know what I had to go through and how long it took for me to overcome. Knowing that the stress is causing me to feel sick and have pains in my chest which can be harmful makes me think "Can stress really take a dangerous toll on me?"

I fear that one day if I don't control my stress levels that I will wind up in a hospital for high blood pressure or something else more major. All I have been doing when I am angry is holding my pain in and tell part of the story troubling me. The part of the story that kills me the most is what I keep in and it makes me feel awful. I wish stress would go away never to return and weigh down my body again. I wish it was that easy to make stress go away but I see this is not the case. I know I can be made miserable and have minor pains from stressing. I do fear a hospital visit if I continue down this road also but seriously, Can stress really take a dangerous toll on me? To the point where it is no longer a matter I can control?