Are you a stress Junkie? If you are very competitive, obsessed with finishing tasks quickly, have a strong need for control, impatient, time-conscious, hostile, aggressive, or have a hard time just relaxing, then you may just be a stress junkie. Other names for you could be: Type A personality, workaholic, or just plain stressed.

The Type A personality was first described in 1950 by two cardiologists who hypothesized that people with certain personality traits would be more likely to suffer from heart disease. Their research in over 3000 men proved that there were indeed links between being competitive, needing control, feeling impatient, stressed, or anxious and certain diseases. They found that Type A personalities had double the risk of coronary heart disease.