Social Readjustment Rating

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From the Social Readjustment Rating Scale (SRRS), I got 123 points which means "You have only a low to moderate chance to becoming ill in the near future" as shown, because a relatively low amount of life change and a low susceptibility to stress-induced health breakdown. One's body might more health as the score gets lower. When someone doesn't have too much "stress", he has lower chance to get illness. "Health is affected when physiological reactions are sustained, as can happen in response to ongoing stress." I believe that 123 is not a really high score in that test, because I enjoy what I'm doing, and I enjoy how I'm living. I don't have too much thing need to worry. As the page said, I'm not "work overload" myself, even I do feel there's

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