Prolonged stress is not harmless. Cortisol is very hard on the body. Read about what it does to you over time. You will deplete GABA and set off a cascade of neurotransmitter depletion. You will break your methionine cycle and be unable to detoxify homocysteine leaving you at greater risk or heart attack or stroke.

If I were you I would drop the wry celebrations of your health risk and get serious about nutrition, exercise, neurogenic yoga and meditation.

I take a norepinephrine blocker. It doesn't prevent me from being able to defend myself, but it does allow me to experience more of my own loving and tender feelings, and retain my "fair form" longer under provocatation. I love it. I also believe it is protective of my overall health.