Mental health issues attendant to transsexualism are made more difficult by job stresses. But pressure and stress come in good and bad forms. I thrived on deadline pressure in my newsroom years. So do most others. The few who said they did not work best under pressure were no more likely than the others to say they'd had job-related health problems.
Experts say stress is healthful, indeed desirable, at optimum levels.
Like news directors, newspaper editors surveyed by Robert Giles told consequences of too much stress. Inability to sleep. A need for medication daily. High blood pressure. Pounding or racing heart.