Mental stress increases the risk of a second heart attack. There is a growing ecidence that the mind plays arole in the developement of heart disease too.Stress damages the heart muscle and blood vessels that feed and surround the heart. Depression can increase the risk of a heart attack or other heart disease b over 7O%. But when a person has a high level of social support family and friends the effects of depression can be reduced. From the awake magazine. How many of us feel this stress because what the org. places on us. If they know what stress can do and the damage it is doing, are they trying to kill us with stress? Their pratices of shunning makes them responsible and can contribute to illnesses, and takes them away from supporting ill family members...nojw