As someone who’s often accused of being too slow to hostility, I took some comfort in this:
(WebMD) The better you cope with stress, the better your “good” cholesterol level is likely to be, according to a new study.
“We know that stress and hostility affect cholesterol,” says researcher Carolyn M. Aldwin, PhD, professor and chairwoman of the department of human development and family sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis. There has been less research, however, on how coping skills can counteract the effects of stress, she says.
Good coping skills were associated with better levels of the so-called “good” cholesterol or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) in her study.
How are your coping skills? What sorts of things make you go off the rails?
Let me go get a little pink pill, and we’ll talk.
My cholesterol is just above 300. Just think how bad it would be if I wasn’t so relaxed.
Susie, you are reading way too many Bush transcripts. You are slow to anger. There is no such thing as “slow to hostility”.
No, that’s not true. I’m often angry. But it takes a lot more than anger to make me ACT hostile.