Saturday, July 7, 2012

Pleasant Excitement Is Stress Too

For healthy people it may be useful to make a distinction between "eu-stress" and "dys-stress," pleasurable excitement and painful agitation, but for cardiac patients, like the little old lady whose death Madeleine Morgenstern reports, the bottom line is how far it raises their blood pressure.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/70-year-old-ohio-restaurant-owner-hosts-obama-for-breakfast-dies-hours-later/

That this patient's death was triggered by the pleasant excitement of meeting a celebrity is news...in the sense that, stereotypically, cardiac patients who want to die from pleasant excitement usually choose sports or sex.

However, if you take the cruelty of Internet trolls seriously, don't read the comments below this article. Lots of meanness and stupidity, guaranteed to raise your blood pressure...unless you remind yourself that trolls feel free to post things on the Internet that imply much more meanness and stupidity than even the trolls show in real life.

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