When you are angry, your blood pressure s up. You a become very activated, your heart rak gos up. These are things that would precipitate a cardiof ask event if you had other underlying vulnerabilities. Because anger does all those things, one can imagine that it has some causal effect not on immune function, but on cardo vascular function.
What is the purpose of negative emotions? Why do we engage with things we know will upset us? And how does Angie deal with rejection?