Stress Paper

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Mad Stressful World Being angry all the time gets us all tensed up and stressed out. Stress increases risk of heart attacks and other health problems. Dianne Hales is right we need to learn to how to control our anger and find the source of the problem not blame other people. Stress varies person to person, so find what helps you be a more serene person. Instead of listening or watching things that get us all worked up, we should do something that makes us feel calmer. In Dianne Hales’ essay “Why Are We So Angry?” she says that more Americans are becoming incensed each year. The anger epidemic is becoming so widespread that no one seems to be immune. There are different types of categories that push our buttons like road rage, resulting in a 7% increase in accidents in the 1990s, or sideline rage. Nowadays people don’t hold themselves liable for their anger and blame someone or something for their own behavior. Enraged outbursts are likely to happen anywhere no place is exempt in this mad world. Hales states in her essay, “Three things responsible for this angry world are: time, technology, and tension.” When we’re running low on patience and all tensed up, we don’t recognize how we treat or talk to people. We have lost our tolerance for inconvenience. It’s a feeling of weakness that sparks our raving madness and being furious for a moment won’t do us any good. After a while, temper tantrums destroy our physical health and the body won’t be in a state of homeostasis. Prolonged animosity stresses the body out, telling it to keep its guard up which can lead to heart attack or stroke. Negative thoughts stoke our anger more, but once we understand that we can try to stop them. I agree with Hales; Americans are becoming angrier. Look at the example she gave of sideline rage, in which the father of a hockey player beat another player’s father to death just because

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