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Stress Can Be a Silent Killer
Have you ever come across one of those surveys for stress and thought to yourself that
you don’t have any so why waste your time taking the survey? Try googling one and actually
take it to see if you have more stress in your life than you realized. Even though I felt I had
balance in my life, I decided to take the survey just for fun. I was shocked when I scored a
whopping 105 out of 200 points on the one I came across. Apparently I am significantly stressed
and didn’t even know it! What is stress and how can we overcome it?
According to an article on WebMD “stress is our body’s reaction to harmful situations.”
What one person perceives as stress another person doesn’t. Even though some stress is good,
too much of it can have a negative effect. Too much stress can wear you down physically and
