Dr. Meyer Friedman and Dr. R.H.Rosenman, two leading American cardiologists in their famous book · Type A behaviour and your heart· say that Type A personality is 2 to 3 times more at risk of death through heart attack than the more relaxed ·Type B Personality·.
The major characteristics of Type A personality are:
A desperate sense of time urgency
An easily aroused free floating hostility
Obsessive compulsiveness and competitiveness
Constant drive to control others and the environment
Emotional exhaustion and self destructiveness
Daring fate by living dangerously
Panic, insecurity and low self esteem
Struggle to achieve more in less time
Reacting with impatience, irritation and anger
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Intellectual rationalizations for violent eruptions
Walking fast, eating fast and talking fast
Making a fetish of punctuality
Fighting with time, with others and with themselves
Setting themselves impossible goals
Dr. Meyer Friedman and Dr. R. H. Rosenman advise ·Type A personality· persons to change their behaviour before they get a heart attack. |
