I was having severe headaches, and chest pains. . . . You begin to doubt yourself. Workplace stress contributes significantly to other serious problems. I have never been a sickly type person, and I had never had any problems with my stomach, but I actually did have to go to the doctor, and . . . I would actually have serious attacks, where I would really get, really feverish, high fever, and I would just get real, real sick.
Hypertension is another problem linked in part to racist incidents at work.
She consulted a doctor, who told her to get another job. I knew I had to have a job because I had children to take care of. But going through what I was going through wasn't really worth it because . . . Recent research by Harvard University's Nancy Krieger and Stephen Sidney examined stress and blood pressure for nearly two thousand black Americans. Those who gave accounts of facing discrimination on three or more of seven situational questions tended to have higher blood pressure than those who reported facing discrimination in one or two situations.