Unemployment is high stress as is working for unreasonable bosses and incompetent supervisors. Poverty situations create high stress as do some illnesses. At any rate we can locate any number of situations which generate bad stress and leave our health affected and our lives endangered. Because stress affects our cardiovascular system causing premature aging. Bad stress can cause all sorts of gastro-intestinal illnesses.
Bad stress can create circumstances where cancer breaks out.
Bad stress can create depression, excessive anger, poor eating habits and ingestion of stimulants and drugs. On and on goes the trail of damage to us. Stressed people see themselves more as victims and seldom as victors. Stressed people are afraid to make changes in their lives because they think they will be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. Stressed people don't sleep well, they experience much anxiety, are irritable and lash out at family and friends.